diff --git a/app/assets/services/cursor.py b/app/assets/services/cursor.py
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+"""Opaque keyset-pagination cursor for /api/assets.
+
+Wire format mirrors the cloud Go implementation in
+`common/pagination/cursor.go` so both runtimes produce byte-identical
+cursors for the same `(sort_field, value, id)` triple and the frontend
+sees one contract.
+
+Payload JSON uses short keys to keep the encoded length small:
+
+    {"s": <sort_field>, "v": <value>, "id": <id>}
+
+Encoding is base64url with no padding. Time values are serialized as Unix
+microseconds (UTC) — microsecond precision matches PostgreSQL's
+`timestamp` type, so a cursor minted from a stored timestamp compares
+back exactly without rounding rows in the same millisecond bucket.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import base64
+import json
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from typing import Iterable, Optional
+
+
+class InvalidCursorError(ValueError):
+    """Raised on a malformed, oversized, or unsupported-sort-field cursor.
+
+    Map to a 400 response with code ``INVALID_CURSOR`` at the handler.
+    """
+
+
+# Wire-format length caps. Cursors are user-controlled, so caps protect the
+# decode path from oversized allocations and downstream SQL predicates from
+# unbounded strings. Same numbers as cloud/common/pagination/cursor.go.
+MAX_ENCODED_CURSOR_LENGTH = 1024
+MAX_CURSOR_VALUE_LENGTH = 256
+MAX_CURSOR_ID_LENGTH = 128
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class CursorPayload:
+    sort_field: str
+    value: str
+    id: str
+
+
+def encode_cursor(sort_field: str, value: str, id: str) -> str:
+    """Encode a cursor payload as a base64url (no-padding) string."""
+    payload = {"s": sort_field, "v": value, "id": id}
+    raw = json.dumps(payload, separators=(",", ":"), ensure_ascii=False).encode("utf-8")
+    return base64.urlsafe_b64encode(raw).rstrip(b"=").decode("ascii")
+
+
+def encode_cursor_from_time(sort_field: str, t: datetime, id: str) -> str:
+    """Encode a time-typed cursor at Unix microsecond precision.
+
+    Accepts an aware datetime (any timezone) and normalizes to UTC. Naive
+    datetimes are rejected so callers can't accidentally encode the local
+    wall-clock value of a UTC-stored timestamp.
+    """
+    if t.tzinfo is None:
+        raise ValueError("encode_cursor_from_time requires an aware datetime")
+    micros = _datetime_to_unix_micros(t.astimezone(timezone.utc))
+    return encode_cursor(sort_field, str(micros), id)
+
+
+def decode_cursor(cursor: str, allowed_sort_fields: Iterable[str]) -> CursorPayload:
+    """Parse an opaque cursor.
+
+    ``allowed_sort_fields`` is the endpoint's accepted sort-field list — a
+    cursor carrying a field outside this set is rejected so a cursor minted
+    for one column can't be replayed against another (e.g. a ``created_at``
+    timestamp string compared against a ``name`` column).
+
+    Passing no allowed fields rejects every cursor.
+    """
+    if len(cursor) > MAX_ENCODED_CURSOR_LENGTH:
+        raise InvalidCursorError("cursor exceeds maximum length")
+
+    try:
+        # urlsafe_b64decode requires correct padding; we strip on encode, so
+        # restore the trailing '=' pad here.
+        padding = "=" * (-len(cursor) % 4)
+        raw = base64.urlsafe_b64decode(cursor + padding)
+    except (ValueError, base64.binascii.Error) as e:
+        raise InvalidCursorError(f"encoding: {e}") from e
+
+    try:
+        decoded = json.loads(raw)
+    except (json.JSONDecodeError, UnicodeDecodeError) as e:
+        raise InvalidCursorError(f"payload: {e}") from e
+
+    if not isinstance(decoded, dict):
+        raise InvalidCursorError("payload: expected object")
+
+    sort_field = decoded.get("s")
+    value = decoded.get("v")
+    id = decoded.get("id")
+
+    if not isinstance(sort_field, str) or not isinstance(value, str) or not isinstance(id, str):
+        raise InvalidCursorError("payload: missing or non-string s/v/id")
+
+    if id == "":
+        raise InvalidCursorError("missing id")
+    if len(id) > MAX_CURSOR_ID_LENGTH:
+        raise InvalidCursorError("id exceeds maximum length")
+    if len(value) > MAX_CURSOR_VALUE_LENGTH:
+        raise InvalidCursorError("value exceeds maximum length")
+
+    if sort_field not in allowed_sort_fields:
+        raise InvalidCursorError(f"unsupported sort field {sort_field!r}")
+
+    return CursorPayload(sort_field=sort_field, value=value, id=id)
+
+
+def decode_cursor_time(payload: Optional[CursorPayload]) -> datetime:
+    """Parse a time-typed cursor value as Unix microseconds, returning UTC."""
+    if payload is None:
+        raise InvalidCursorError("nil cursor payload")
+    try:
+        micros = int(payload.value)
+    except ValueError as e:
+        raise InvalidCursorError(f"value is not a valid timestamp: {e}") from e
+    return _unix_micros_to_datetime(micros)
+
+
+def decode_cursor_int(payload: Optional[CursorPayload]) -> int:
+    """Parse a cursor value as a base-10 integer."""
+    if payload is None:
+        raise InvalidCursorError("nil cursor payload")
+    try:
+        return int(payload.value)
+    except ValueError as e:
+        raise InvalidCursorError(f"value is not a valid integer: {e}") from e
+
+
+_EPOCH = datetime(1970, 1, 1, tzinfo=timezone.utc)
+
+
+def _datetime_to_unix_micros(t: datetime) -> int:
+    """Convert an aware UTC datetime to Unix microseconds (integer math)."""
+    delta = t - _EPOCH
+    return (delta.days * 86_400 + delta.seconds) * 1_000_000 + delta.microseconds
+
+
+def _unix_micros_to_datetime(micros: int) -> datetime:
+    """Convert Unix microseconds to a UTC datetime, preserving precision."""
+    seconds, micro_remainder = divmod(micros, 1_000_000)
+    return datetime.fromtimestamp(seconds, tz=timezone.utc).replace(microsecond=micro_remainder)
diff --git a/tests-unit/assets_test/services/test_cursor.py b/tests-unit/assets_test/services/test_cursor.py
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+"""Tests for app.assets.services.cursor.
+
+The wire format must stay byte-identical with the cloud Go implementation
+(common/pagination/cursor.go in Comfy-Org/cloud) so the frontend sees one
+contract across runtimes. The byte-identity fixture below mirrors the Go
+test cases — any drift here means cloud and OSS minted different cursors
+for the same triple, which would break FE pagination across backends.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import base64
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
+
+import pytest
+
+from app.assets.services.cursor import (
+    MAX_CURSOR_ID_LENGTH,
+    MAX_CURSOR_VALUE_LENGTH,
+    MAX_ENCODED_CURSOR_LENGTH,
+    CursorPayload,
+    InvalidCursorError,
+    decode_cursor,
+    decode_cursor_int,
+    decode_cursor_time,
+    encode_cursor,
+    encode_cursor_from_time,
+)
+
+
+ALLOWED = ("created_at", "updated_at", "name", "size")
+
+
+class TestRoundTrip:
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        "sort_field, value, id",
+        [
+            ("created_at", "1716200000000000", "a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7a89-b0c1-d2e3f4a5b6c7"),
+            ("size", "1024", "asset-123"),
+            ("name", "my-asset.png", "asset-abc"),
+            ("name", "résumé.txt", "asset-uni"),
+        ],
+    )
+    def test_encode_decode(self, sort_field, value, id):
+        encoded = encode_cursor(sort_field, value, id)
+        assert encoded != ""
+        payload = decode_cursor(encoded, ALLOWED)
+        assert payload.sort_field == sort_field
+        assert payload.value == value
+        assert payload.id == id
+
+
+class TestTimeCursor:
+    def test_microsecond_precision_preserved(self):
+        # Pick a time with non-zero microseconds — encoding at ms would lose the µs.
+        ts = datetime(2024, 5, 20, 12, 53, 20, 123456, tzinfo=timezone.utc)
+        encoded = encode_cursor_from_time("created_at", ts, "id-1")
+        payload = decode_cursor(encoded, ALLOWED)
+        # Value must be a microsecond integer string, not a millisecond one.
+        assert payload.value == "1716209600123456"
+        decoded = decode_cursor_time(payload)
+        assert decoded == ts
+
+    def test_decode_returns_utc(self):
+        payload = CursorPayload(sort_field="created_at", value="1716200000123456", id="id-1")
+        decoded = decode_cursor_time(payload)
+        assert decoded.tzinfo == timezone.utc
+
+    def test_naive_datetime_rejected_on_encode(self):
+        naive = datetime(2024, 5, 20, 12, 0, 0)
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+            encode_cursor_from_time("created_at", naive, "id-1")
+
+    def test_non_integer_value_rejected_on_decode(self):
+        with pytest.raises(InvalidCursorError):
+            decode_cursor_time(CursorPayload("created_at", "not-a-number", "id-1"))
+
+    def test_none_payload_rejected(self):
+        with pytest.raises(InvalidCursorError):
+            decode_cursor_time(None)
+
+    def test_non_utc_aware_normalized(self):
+        # Same instant, different timezone — must encode to the same micros.
+        utc_ts = datetime(2024, 5, 20, 12, 0, 0, tzinfo=timezone.utc)
+        offset_ts = utc_ts.astimezone(timezone(timedelta(hours=-5)))
+        assert encode_cursor_from_time("created_at", utc_ts, "x") == encode_cursor_from_time(
+            "created_at", offset_ts, "x"
+        )
+
+
+class TestIntCursor:
+    def test_decode_int(self):
+        assert decode_cursor_int(CursorPayload("size", "1024", "id-1")) == 1024
+
+    def test_decode_int_rejects_non_int(self):
+        with pytest.raises(InvalidCursorError):
+            decode_cursor_int(CursorPayload("size", "abc", "id-1"))
+
+    def test_decode_int_rejects_none(self):
+        with pytest.raises(InvalidCursorError):
+            decode_cursor_int(None)
+
+
+class TestInvalidInputs:
+    def test_oversized_cursor(self):
+        oversized = "a" * (MAX_ENCODED_CURSOR_LENGTH + 1)
+        with pytest.raises(InvalidCursorError, match="maximum length"):
+            decode_cursor(oversized, ALLOWED)
+
+    def test_not_base64(self):
+        with pytest.raises(InvalidCursorError):
+            decode_cursor("not base64!!!", ALLOWED)
+
+    def test_not_json(self):
+        encoded = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(b"definitely not json").rstrip(b"=").decode("ascii")
+        with pytest.raises(InvalidCursorError):
+            decode_cursor(encoded, ALLOWED)
+
+    def test_empty_id(self):
+        encoded = encode_cursor("created_at", "1", "")
+        with pytest.raises(InvalidCursorError, match="missing id"):
+            decode_cursor(encoded, ALLOWED)
+
+    def test_oversized_id(self):
+        encoded = encode_cursor("created_at", "1", "a" * (MAX_CURSOR_ID_LENGTH + 1))
+        with pytest.raises(InvalidCursorError, match="id exceeds maximum length"):
+            decode_cursor(encoded, ALLOWED)
+
+    def test_oversized_value(self):
+        encoded = encode_cursor("created_at", "v" * (MAX_CURSOR_VALUE_LENGTH + 1), "id-1")
+        with pytest.raises(InvalidCursorError, match="value exceeds maximum length"):
+            decode_cursor(encoded, ALLOWED)
+
+    def test_unsupported_sort_field(self):
+        encoded = encode_cursor("execution_time", "1", "id-1")
+        with pytest.raises(InvalidCursorError, match="unsupported sort field"):
+            decode_cursor(encoded, ALLOWED)
+
+    def test_no_allowed_fields_rejects_everything(self):
+        encoded = encode_cursor("created_at", "1", "id-1")
+        with pytest.raises(InvalidCursorError):
+            decode_cursor(encoded, ())
+
+    def test_non_dict_payload_rejected(self):
+        encoded = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(b'["array","not","dict"]').rstrip(b"=").decode("ascii")
+        with pytest.raises(InvalidCursorError, match="expected object"):
+            decode_cursor(encoded, ALLOWED)
+
+
+class TestEncodeAtCapsFits:
+    def test_max_field_lengths_fit_wire_cap(self):
+        # Worst-case payload: value and id at their per-field caps, with a long
+        # sort field name. The encoded cursor must fit within MAX_ENCODED_CURSOR_LENGTH
+        # so the wire cap cannot reject a cursor the encoder mints at the per-field caps.
+        value = "v" * MAX_CURSOR_VALUE_LENGTH
+        id = "i" * MAX_CURSOR_ID_LENGTH
+        sort_field = "very_long_sort_field_name"
+
+        encoded = encode_cursor(sort_field, value, id)
+        assert len(encoded) <= MAX_ENCODED_CURSOR_LENGTH
+        payload = decode_cursor(encoded, (sort_field,))
+        assert payload.value == value
+        assert payload.id == id
+
+
+class TestByteIdentityWithCloud:
+    """Lock the wire format against drift from cloud's Go implementation.
+
+    Drop these fixtures from common/pagination/cursor_test.go in cloud — they
+    encode to specific base64url strings, and any drift on either side breaks
+    cross-runtime FE pagination.
+
+    To regenerate, run cloud's test harness with these inputs and capture the
+    output of EncodeCursor, then paste below.
+    """
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        "sort_field, value, id, expected_encoded",
+        [
+            # Generated from cloud encode_cursor: json.Marshal yields keys in
+            # insertion order for our struct (s, v, id), then RawURLEncoding base64.
+            ("created_at", "1716200000000000", "a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7a89-b0c1-d2e3f4a5b6c7",
+             "eyJzIjoiY3JlYXRlZF9hdCIsInYiOiIxNzE2MjAwMDAwMDAwMDAwIiwiaWQiOiJhMWIyYzNkNC1lNWY2LTdhODktYjBjMS1kMmUzZjRhNWI2YzcifQ"),
+            ("size", "1024", "asset-123",
+             "eyJzIjoic2l6ZSIsInYiOiIxMDI0IiwiaWQiOiJhc3NldC0xMjMifQ"),
+            ("name", "my-asset.png", "asset-abc",
+             "eyJzIjoibmFtZSIsInYiOiJteS1hc3NldC5wbmciLCJpZCI6ImFzc2V0LWFiYyJ9"),
+        ],
+    )
+    def test_python_matches_cloud_wire_bytes(self, sort_field, value, id, expected_encoded):
+        actual = encode_cursor(sort_field, value, id)
+        assert actual == expected_encoded, (
+            f"Python cursor diverged from cloud Go wire format. "
+            f"Got: {actual!r}, expected: {expected_encoded!r}"
+        )