diff --git a/packages/mcp/tutorial-step-slicer.js b/packages/mcp/tutorial-step-slicer.js
index 706ade7a4..64a32c08b 100644
--- a/packages/mcp/tutorial-step-slicer.js
+++ b/packages/mcp/tutorial-step-slicer.js
@@ -19,19 +19,14 @@ import { parseMarkdownSteps } from '@tutorials/core/tutorial-markdown-steps.js';
 import { absolutizeImagePaths } from '@tutorials/core/tutorial-markdown.js';
 import { filterVariants } from './option-filter.js';
 import { collectTroubleshootEntries } from '../../scripts/parsers/blockquote-troubleshoot-collect.js';
-
-// Lazy import: scripts/parsers/directives.js is a TypeScript source file that is NOT
-// bundled into gen/srv at cds build time. At CF runtime the workspace path is absent;
-// the pre-built _shared/parsers.bundle.mjs (created by scripts/bundle-shared.cjs, same
-// pattern as freshness-detector.js after #3029) is used instead.
-// Memoised so the async resolution only happens once per process lifetime.
-let _directivesMod;
-async function getDirectivesMod() {
-  if (_directivesMod) return _directivesMod;
-  try { _directivesMod = await import('../../scripts/parsers/directives.js'); }
-  catch { _directivesMod = await import('./_shared/parsers.bundle.mjs'); }
-  return _directivesMod;
-}
+// `renderDirectivesAsText` lives in scripts/parsers/directives.ts. Imported
+// statically (same as collectTroubleshootEntries above): esbuild inlines it into
+// srv/lib/_shared/mcp.bundle.mjs at bundle time, so CF runtime never needs the
+// scripts/parsers/ source on disk. A dynamic import('./_shared/parsers.bundle.mjs')
+// was tried (#3029 pattern) but that path is relative to packages/mcp/ — where no
+// _shared/ dir is ever emitted — so esbuild could not resolve it and the bundle build
+// failed. Static import avoids the runtime-path problem entirely.
+import { renderDirectivesAsText } from '../../scripts/parsers/directives.js';
 
 const NS = 'com.sap.developers.ims';
 const LOG = cds.log('mcp-slicer');
@@ -268,7 +263,6 @@ async function loadAndParseMarkdown(slug) {
   }
 
   const { repo, branch } = await getRepoProvenance(slug);
-  const { renderDirectivesAsText } = await getDirectivesMod();
   const steps = new Map();
   for (const s of parsedSteps) {
     const md = renderDirectivesAsText(absolutizeImagePaths(s.markdown, { slug, repo, branch }));