diff --git a/docker-bake.hcl b/docker-bake.hcl
index 58ac77f624..323d695d27 100644
--- a/docker-bake.hcl
+++ b/docker-bake.hcl
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ variable "NEMO_RL_REPO" {
 # RL pins Gym as a git submodule (-> soluwalana/Gym over https), so Gym rides in with the RL git ADD
 # - no separate Gym pin needed.
 variable "NEMO_RL_REF" {
-  default = "eab835b111b78d90c3629b26af9b3f12dc0d0d29" # soluwalana/RL nmp/customizer
+  default = "9932dc8aa63a55fd431670d1b7c9d0bf3b2d2373" # soluwalana/RL nmp/customizer
 }
 variable "RL_BASE_CONTEXT" {
   default = ""
diff --git a/docker/rl/Dockerfile.nmp-rl-base b/docker/rl/Dockerfile.nmp-rl-base
index b55865b1b2..38e8a3ce26 100644
--- a/docker/rl/Dockerfile.nmp-rl-base
+++ b/docker/rl/Dockerfile.nmp-rl-base
@@ -132,6 +132,14 @@ ENV RAY_USAGE_STATS_ENABLED=0 \
     NEMO_RL_VENV_DIR=/opt/ray_venvs \
     NEMO_GYM_VENV_DIR=/opt/gym_venvs
 
+# ---- gym-wheel: an installable nemo-gym for the Gym per-server venvs ----
+# Gym resolves `nemo-gym==<parent version>` from an index for every staged server, and this
+# image's fork version is published nowhere. See scripts/build-gym-wheel.sh for the why.
+FROM base AS gym-wheel
+COPY --from=nemo-rl 3rdparty/Gym-workspace/Gym /build/Gym
+RUN --mount=type=bind,source=docker/rl/scripts/build-gym-wheel.sh,target=/build/build-gym-wheel.sh \
+    bash /build/build-gym-wheel.sh /build/Gym /opt/gym-wheels
+
 # ---- builder: uv sync RL + Gym with the extras we use ----
 # fsdp (DPO training), automodel (GRPO training on DTensor V2, the only LoRA-capable DTensor
 # backend), mcore (Megatron training + Megatron-native generation), vllm (generation), nemo_gym and
@@ -542,12 +550,18 @@ RUN apt-get purge -y ccache vim vim-common less >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; \
         /opt/nvidia/nsight-systems-cli /opt/nvidia/nsight-compute \
         /usr/local/bin/nsys /usr/local/bin/nsys-ui /usr/local/bin/ncu /usr/local/bin/ncu-ui \
     || true
+# UV_FIND_LINKS below is additive: it adds nemo-gym as a local candidate, and everything else
+# still resolves from the index. Copied here rather than in `base` so the build's own uv steps
+# never see a find-links path that does not exist yet.
+COPY --from=gym-wheel /opt/gym-wheels /opt/gym-wheels
+
 # NO_VCS_VERSION=1: with no .git present, nemo_rl/package_info.py's `git rev-parse` would fail on every
 # `import nemo_rl` (harmlessly, but it forks a subprocess each time, and this image starts many
 # worker processes). The flag is package_info.py's own opt-out, so the lookup is skipped entirely.
 ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/opt/nemo_rl_venv \
     HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER=1 \
     PATH="/opt/nemo_rl_venv/bin:/usr/local/bin:${PATH}" \
+    UV_FIND_LINKS=/opt/gym-wheels \
     NO_VCS_VERSION=1
 
 # The venv's python symlinks to CPython under /opt/cpython, nemo_rl is installed
diff --git a/docker/rl/scripts/build-gym-wheel.sh b/docker/rl/scripts/build-gym-wheel.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..9cdbe65b8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker/rl/scripts/build-gym-wheel.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2025-2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# Build an installable nemo-gym wheel for the Gym per-server venvs.
+#
+# Gym rewrites the install line for any server directory that is NOT inside a Gym checkout --
+# which a platform environment FileSet staged at /job/environment never is. It strips the editable
+# line and substitutes `nemo-gym==<the parent venv's version>`, resolved from a package INDEX
+# (nemo_gym/cli/setup_command.py, _get_nemo_gym_version_spec). This image runs the soluwalana fork,
+# whose version is published nowhere, so that resolution has no candidate and every native-v1 job
+# dies at server spin-up with "No solution found when resolving: nemo-gym" (nvbug 6716627).
+#
+# The pin is exact, so a wheel built at any other version is invisible to it and the job fails
+# exactly as before -- hence the version check at the end.
+set -euo pipefail
+
+GYM_SRC=${1:?usage: build-gym-wheel.sh <gym-source-dir> <out-dir>}
+OUT_DIR=${2:?usage: build-gym-wheel.sh <gym-source-dir> <out-dir>}
+
+# Upstream declares almost no package-data, relying on setuptools-scm's VCS file-finder to sweep
+# the configs and READMEs into the wheel. That finder needs git, and there is none here: the RL
+# source arrives by `ADD <repo>#<ref>`, which keeps no submodule .git (a submodule's .git is a
+# gitdir pointer file, not a directory). Left alone the wheel builds and installs happily while
+# quietly missing every YAML, including the sandbox provider configs. Declare the data explicitly
+# rather than depend on VCS state this build cannot have.
+PKG_DATA_LINE='nemo_gym = ["resources/*.py"]'
+if ! grep -qxF "${PKG_DATA_LINE}" "${GYM_SRC}/pyproject.toml"; then
+    echo "build-gym-wheel: Gym's [tool.setuptools.package-data] entry moved;" \
+         "re-check this substitution against ${GYM_SRC}/pyproject.toml" >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
+# Fully single-quoted, and the brackets/dots/stars escaped: unescaped, `["resources/*.py"]` is a
+# BRE character class, which matches nothing here and would edit the file silently not at all.
+sed -i 's|^nemo_gym = \["resources/\*\.py"\]$|nemo_gym = ["resources/*.py", "**/*.yaml", "**/*.yml", "**/*.md"]\n"*" = ["**/*.yaml", "**/*.yml", "**/*.json", "**/*.md", "**/*.txt"]|' \
+    "${GYM_SRC}/pyproject.toml"
+
+# --no-config: uv would otherwise discover the platform workspace's `required-version` pin
+# (docker/rl/pyproject.workspace.toml, uv <0.10) and refuse to run as this image's uv 0.11.
+uv build --no-config --wheel --out-dir "${OUT_DIR}" "${GYM_SRC}"
+
+# Fail here rather than at spin-up on a GPU node: a wheel at the wrong version, or one missing the
+# package data above, installs cleanly and only misbehaves later.
+shopt -s nullglob
+wheels=("${OUT_DIR}"/nemo_gym-*.whl)
+if [[ ${#wheels[@]} -ne 1 ]]; then
+    echo "build-gym-wheel: expected exactly one wheel, got: ${wheels[*]:-none}" >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
+# package_info.py assembles __version__ from MAJOR/MINOR/PATCH/PRE_RELEASE and imports nothing,
+# so it can be read without installing the package it describes.
+expected="nemo_gym-$(python -c \
+    'import runpy, sys; print(runpy.run_path(sys.argv[1])["__version__"])' \
+    "${GYM_SRC}/nemo_gym/package_info.py")-py3-none-any.whl"
+if [[ "$(basename "${wheels[0]}")" != "${expected}" ]]; then
+    echo "build-gym-wheel: built $(basename "${wheels[0]}"), expected ${expected}" >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
+probe="nemo_gym/sandbox/providers/opensandbox/configs/opensandbox.yaml"
+# Listed into a variable rather than piped into grep: `grep -q` exits at the first match, unzip
+# takes SIGPIPE, and `set -o pipefail` then reports the pipeline as failed -- so a file that IS
+# present reads as missing.
+entries="$(unzip -Z1 "${wheels[0]}")"
+if ! grep -qxF "${probe}" <<<"${entries}"; then
+    echo "build-gym-wheel: ${probe} missing from the wheel; package-data did not take" >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
+echo "build-gym-wheel: built $(basename "${wheels[0]}")"