diff --git a/internal/qapi/profile.go b/internal/qapi/profile.go
index 22974a8..8f0413b 100644
--- a/internal/qapi/profile.go
+++ b/internal/qapi/profile.go
@@ -139,3 +139,32 @@ func sameProfileInfo(before, after os.FileInfo) bool {
 func profileDirectoryOrFileInfo(info os.FileInfo) bool {
 	return profileDirectoryInfo(info) || profileFileInfo(info)
 }
+
+// ProfileSelection reports the defaultProfile id and every profile id the
+// user-owned profile below root defines, from the same single safe snapshot
+// read route resolution uses. It reports ok=false when no source is present or
+// when the source cannot be inspected or decoded safely, so a caller describes
+// a refusal without opening a second, weaker read path (#374 S6).
+//
+// The ids come from qaroute.ProfileIDs and the default from
+// qaroute.DefaultProfileID: the two existing decoders over one verified byte
+// snapshot, never a second profile representation.
+func ProfileSelection(root string) (string, []string, bool) {
+	source, ok := inspectProfileSource(root)
+	if !ok {
+		return "", nil, false
+	}
+	data, ok := source.read()
+	if !ok {
+		return "", nil, false
+	}
+	ids, ok := qaroute.ProfileIDs(data)
+	if !ok {
+		return "", nil, false
+	}
+	defaultID, ok := qaroute.DefaultProfileID(data)
+	if !ok {
+		return "", nil, false
+	}
+	return defaultID, ids, true
+}
diff --git a/internal/qapi/profile_test.go b/internal/qapi/profile_test.go
index 6f3321b..22ca5d5 100644
--- a/internal/qapi/profile_test.go
+++ b/internal/qapi/profile_test.go
@@ -153,3 +153,55 @@ func writeProfile(t *testing.T, root string, data []byte) {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 }
+
+// TestProfileSelectionReportsTheSameSnapshotResolutionReads pins the S6 (#374)
+// listing seam: the default id and the sorted admitted ids come from the one
+// safe snapshot read the route policy uses, so a refusal enumerates ids the
+// policy itself accepts instead of a second, weaker representation.
+func TestProfileSelectionReportsTheSameSnapshotResolutionReads(t *testing.T) {
+	root := testProfileRoot(t)
+	writeProfile(t, root, []byte(`{"schemaVersion":1,"defaultProfile":"fleet","profiles":{"qa-fleet":{"routes":{"test-runner":{"pi":{"provider":"nan","model":"qwen3.6","effort":"low"}}}},"fleet":{"routes":{"test-runner":{"pi":{"provider":"nan","model":"glm5.3","effort":"high"}}}}}}`))
+	defaultID, ids, ok := ProfileSelection(root)
+	if !ok || defaultID != "fleet" {
+		t.Fatalf("ProfileSelection() = (%q, %q, %v), want the file's defaultProfile", defaultID, ids, ok)
+	}
+	if len(ids) != 2 || ids[0] != "fleet" || ids[1] != "qa-fleet" {
+		t.Fatalf("ProfileSelection() ids = %q, want [fleet qa-fleet]", ids)
+	}
+	// An absent or unsafe source has no selection at all: a caller reports the
+	// refusal instead of listing ids from a file it could not verify.
+	for name, setup := range map[string]func(t *testing.T, root string){
+		"absent": func(t *testing.T, root string) {},
+		"symlink": func(t *testing.T, root string) {
+			mustSymlink(t, filepath.Join(testProfileRoot(t), "elsewhere.json"), stagedProfilePath(t, root))
+		},
+		"malformed": func(t *testing.T, root string) {
+			writeProfile(t, root, []byte(`{"schemaVersion":1,"defaultProfile":"9bad","profiles":{}}`))
+		},
+	} {
+		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			root := testProfileRoot(t)
+			setup(t, root)
+			if defaultID, ids, ok := ProfileSelection(root); ok || defaultID != "" || ids != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("ProfileSelection() = (%q, %q, %v), want no selection", defaultID, ids, ok)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func mustSymlink(t *testing.T, target, link string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	if err := os.Symlink(target, link); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+}
+
+// stagedProfilePath creates the profile directory of root and returns the file
+// path inside it, without writing a file there.
+func stagedProfilePath(t *testing.T, root string) string {
+	t.Helper()
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(profilePath(root)), 0o755); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return profilePath(root)
+}
diff --git a/internal/qaroute/profile.go b/internal/qaroute/profile.go
index 8fd7dcb..d7f9a25 100644
--- a/internal/qaroute/profile.go
+++ b/internal/qaroute/profile.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"io"
 	"regexp"
+	"sort"
 	"unicode/utf8"
 
 	"github.com/refactor-ia/cortex/internal/qarole"
@@ -150,3 +151,22 @@ func DefaultProfileID(data []byte) (string, bool) {
 	}
 	return defaultID, true
 }
+
+// ProfileIDs lists the ids one profile snapshot defines, sorted, so a refusal
+// can enumerate what the file actually offers (#374 S6). It decodes through
+// decodeProfiles: one decoder and one validity rule, so every id this function
+// lists is an id Resolve accepts, and an id it omits is one Resolve refuses.
+// Bounds are decodeProfiles' own (snapshot size, at most 64 profiles, and the
+// profile-id pattern), so this adds no second representation of a profile.
+func ProfileIDs(data []byte) ([]string, bool) {
+	decoded, ok := decodeProfiles(data)
+	if !ok {
+		return nil, false
+	}
+	ids := make([]string, 0, len(decoded))
+	for id := range decoded {
+		ids = append(ids, id)
+	}
+	sort.Strings(ids)
+	return ids, true
+}
diff --git a/internal/qaroute/profile_test.go b/internal/qaroute/profile_test.go
index db89c87..20b8b3d 100644
--- a/internal/qaroute/profile_test.go
+++ b/internal/qaroute/profile_test.go
@@ -83,3 +83,36 @@ func TestResolvePerBackendRoutes(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("unadmitted backend key failure = %q, want profile_invalid", failure.Code)
 	}
 }
+
+// TestProfileIDsListsSortedAdmittedIDs pins the enumeration a refusal uses to
+// name what a profile file actually offers (#374 S6): the ids come from the one
+// existing decoder, so an id this function lists is an id Resolve accepts, and
+// the order is sorted rather than the file's or Go's map order.
+func TestProfileIDsListsSortedAdmittedIDs(t *testing.T) {
+	body := []byte(`{"schemaVersion":1,"defaultProfile":"fleet","profiles":{"qa-fleet":{"routes":{"requirements-analyst":{"pi":{"provider":"nan","model":"qwen3.6","effort":"low"}}}},"fleet":{"routes":{"requirements-analyst":{"pi":{"provider":"nan","model":"glm5.3","effort":"high"}}}},"alpha":{"routes":{"requirements-analyst":{"pi":{"provider":"nan","model":"deepseek-v4-flash","effort":"low"}}}}}}`)
+	ids, ok := ProfileIDs(body)
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatal("ProfileIDs rejected a snapshot the route policy accepts")
+	}
+	want := []string{"alpha", "fleet", "qa-fleet"}
+	if len(ids) != len(want) {
+		t.Fatalf("ProfileIDs() = %q, want %q", ids, want)
+	}
+	for index, id := range want {
+		if ids[index] != id {
+			t.Fatalf("ProfileIDs() = %q, want %q", ids, want)
+		}
+		if _, failure := Resolve(Request{Role: qarole.RequirementsAnalyst, Backend: "pi", ProfileID: id}, Snapshot{Present: true, Bytes: body}); failure.Code != "" {
+			t.Fatalf("ProfileIDs listed %q but Resolve refused it: %q", id, failure.Code)
+		}
+	}
+	for name, invalid := range map[string][]byte{
+		"malformed":      []byte(`{"schemaVersion":1,"defaultProfile":"9bad","profiles":{}}`),
+		"default absent": []byte(`{"schemaVersion":1,"defaultProfile":"missing","profiles":{"fleet":{"routes":{"requirements-analyst":{"pi":{"provider":"nan","model":"glm5.3","effort":"high"}}}}}}`),
+		"not an object":  []byte(`[]`),
+	} {
+		if ids, ok := ProfileIDs(invalid); ok || ids != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: ProfileIDs() = (%q, %v), want no enumeration", name, ids, ok)
+		}
+	}
+}