diff --git a/packages/endomoat/src/constants.js b/packages/endomoat/src/constants.js
index 22bf598152..9f09dca017 100644
--- a/packages/endomoat/src/constants.js
+++ b/packages/endomoat/src/constants.js
@@ -29,3 +29,7 @@ export const RSRC_POLICY_GLOBALS = 'globals'
 
 export const LMR_TYPE_BUILTIN = 'builtin'
 export const LMR_TYPE_SOURCE = 'js'
+
+export const LMR_TYPE_NATIVE = 'native'
+
+export const ENDO_PARSER_BYTES = 'bytes'
diff --git a/packages/endomoat/src/policy-gen/policy-generator-context.js b/packages/endomoat/src/policy-gen/policy-generator-context.js
index 4f4f130413..ca2df46864 100644
--- a/packages/endomoat/src/policy-gen/policy-generator-context.js
+++ b/packages/endomoat/src/policy-gen/policy-generator-context.js
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@ import { isBuiltin as nodeIsBuiltin } from 'node:module'
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url'
 import path from 'path'
 import {
+  ENDO_PARSER_BYTES,
   LAVAMOAT_PKG_POLICY_ROOT,
   LMR_TYPE_BUILTIN,
+  LMR_TYPE_NATIVE,
   LMR_TYPE_SOURCE,
 } from '../constants.js'
 import { defaultReadPower } from '../power.js'
@@ -271,7 +273,10 @@ export class PolicyGeneratorContext {
    * @returns {Promise<import('lavamoat-core').LavamoatModuleRecord[]>}
    * @internal
    */
-  async buildModuleRecordsForSource(specifier, { record, sourceLocation }) {
+  async buildModuleRecordsForSource(
+    specifier,
+    { parser, record, sourceLocation }
+  ) {
     if (!sourceLocation) {
       // XXX: why would we not have a sourceLocation?
       throw new TypeError(
@@ -299,17 +304,24 @@ export class PolicyGeneratorContext {
      * The `ModuleSource.content` prop is already pre-processed by Endo, and we
      * do not want that, since it befouls our AST crawling.
      *
+     * This will not be run if the `parser` is `bytes`.
+     *
      * @remarks
      * Doing this first since it may be more likely to fail than the other
-     * operations below
-     * @type {NonNullable<
-     *   import('lavamoat-core').LavamoatModuleRecord['content']
-     * >}
+     * operations below.
+     * @type {string | undefined}
      * @todo Modify Endo to surface the original source
+     *
+     * @todo Add more exceptions to the parsers?
      */
-    const content = await this.readPower(sourceLocation).then((buffer) =>
-      PolicyGeneratorContext.#decoder.decode(buffer)
-    )
+    let content
+
+    await Promise.resolve()
+    if (parser !== ENDO_PARSER_BYTES) {
+      content = await this.readPower(sourceLocation).then((buffer) =>
+        PolicyGeneratorContext.#decoder.decode(buffer)
+      )
+    }
 
     /**
      * The {@link LavamoatModuleRecord.file} prop
@@ -338,7 +350,7 @@ export class PolicyGeneratorContext {
         packageName: this.packageName,
         importMap,
         content,
-        type: LMR_TYPE_SOURCE,
+        type: parser === ENDO_PARSER_BYTES ? LMR_TYPE_NATIVE : LMR_TYPE_SOURCE,
       }),
     ]
 
diff --git a/packages/endomoat/test/fixture/json/native.json b/packages/endomoat/test/fixture/json/native.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6f0fcf1485
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/endomoat/test/fixture/json/native.json
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{
+  "/package.json": "{\n  \"name\": \"native\",\n  \"version\": \"1.0.0\",\n  \"type\": \"module\",\n  \"license\": \"ISC\",\n  \"private\": true,\n  \"main\": \"app.js\",\n  \"dependencies\": {\n    \"hello\": \"^1.0.0\"\n  }\n}\n",
+  "/index.js": "import addon from 'hello'\nexport const hello = addon.hello()\n",
+  "/node_modules/hello/package.json": "{\n  \"name\": \"hello\",\n  \"version\": \"0.0.0\",\n  \"description\": \"this code does not run\",\n  \"private\": true,\n  \"main\": \"index.js\",\n  \"parsers\": {\n    \"node\": \"bytes\"\n  }\n}\n",
+  "/node_modules/hello/index.js": "var addon = require('./hello')\n\nconsole.log(addon.hello()) // 'world'\n\nmodule.exports = addon\n",
+  "/node_modules/hello/hello.node": "\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000",
+  "/node_modules/hello/README.md": "This fixture is an example of a package shipping a native module (`hello.node`). `hello.node` is not _actually_ a native module, but it has the right extension and is full of null bytes. Good enough.\n"
+}
diff --git a/packages/endomoat/test/policy-gen/generate-policy.spec.js b/packages/endomoat/test/policy-gen/generate-policy.spec.js
index c0346dce21..1dffa9223b 100644
--- a/packages/endomoat/test/policy-gen/generate-policy.spec.js
+++ b/packages/endomoat/test/policy-gen/generate-policy.spec.js
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ test(testPolicyForJSON, 'builtins.json')
 
 test(testPolicyForJSON, 'kitchen-sink.json')
 
+test(testPolicyForJSON, 'native.json')
+
 test('basic nested global access', testPolicyForModule, 'location.href', {
   resources: {
     test: {
diff --git a/packages/endomoat/test/policy-gen/snapshots/generate-policy.spec.js.md b/packages/endomoat/test/policy-gen/snapshots/generate-policy.spec.js.md
index 8d24cc2d57..6e1f3df57a 100644
--- a/packages/endomoat/test/policy-gen/snapshots/generate-policy.spec.js.md
+++ b/packages/endomoat/test/policy-gen/snapshots/generate-policy.spec.js.md
@@ -58,3 +58,18 @@ Generated by [AVA](https://avajs.dev).
         },
       },
     }
+
+## policy for fixture matches snapshot (native.json)
+
+> Snapshot 1
+
+    {
+      resources: {
+        hello: {
+          globals: {
+            'console.log': true,
+          },
+          native: true,
+        },
+      },
+    }
diff --git a/packages/endomoat/test/policy-gen/snapshots/generate-policy.spec.js.snap b/packages/endomoat/test/policy-gen/snapshots/generate-policy.spec.js.snap
index a3d79d56e7..38619d4e76 100644
Binary files a/packages/endomoat/test/policy-gen/snapshots/generate-policy.spec.js.snap and b/packages/endomoat/test/policy-gen/snapshots/generate-policy.spec.js.snap differ