diff --git a/admin/src/app/hotkeys.ts b/admin/src/app/hotkeys.ts
index a29a7a1b..a4e5ee58 100644
--- a/admin/src/app/hotkeys.ts
+++ b/admin/src/app/hotkeys.ts
@@ -221,16 +221,41 @@ function onModifierKey(event: KeyboardEvent): void {
   if (event.repeat || isDisabled(target)) {
     return
   }
-  // Commit pending edits the way a pointer click would: blurring the
-  // focused field runs its blur and native change handlers (a taglist's
-  // typed-but-uncommitted tag) before the button reads the values.
-  const active = doc.activeElement
-  const blurred = active instanceof HTMLElement && active !== target && active !== doc.body ? active : null
-  blurred?.blur()
-  target.click()
-  if (blurred?.isConnected) {
-    blurred.focus()
+  // Commit pending edits the way a pointer click would: the press focuses
+  // the button, which unfocuses the field and runs its blur and native change
+  // handlers (a taglist's typed-but-uncommitted tag, a plugin field type that
+  // emits summer-change on change) before the button reads the values.
+  // Moving focus reaches an input inside a shadow root, open or closed;
+  // blur() on the shadow host does not (document.activeElement is the host).
+  const previous = deepestActiveElement(doc)
+  const restore = previous instanceof HTMLElement && previous !== target && previous !== doc.body ? previous : null
+  if (restore) {
+    target.focus({ preventScroll: true })
+    if (deepestActiveElement(doc) === restore) {
+      // The target takes no focus (not a focusable element): unfocus the
+      // field itself, which works once we hold the innermost element.
+      restore.blur()
+    }
   }
+  target.click()
+  // Give focus back unless the click moved it somewhere else on purpose.
+  const after = doc.activeElement
+  if (restore?.isConnected && (after === target || after === doc.body || after === null)) {
+    restore.focus({ preventScroll: true })
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * The focused element, followed through open shadow roots
+ * (document.activeElement stops at the shadow host). A closed root stops the
+ * walk at its host.
+ */
+function deepestActiveElement(doc: Document = document): Element | null {
+  let active: Element | null = doc.activeElement
+  while (active?.shadowRoot?.activeElement) {
+    active = active.shadowRoot.activeElement
+  }
+  return active
 }
 
 function onPlainKey(event: KeyboardEvent): void {
diff --git a/admin/tests/app/hotkeysEditing.test.ts b/admin/tests/app/hotkeysEditing.test.ts
index 725fe6fc..81032204 100644
--- a/admin/tests/app/hotkeysEditing.test.ts
+++ b/admin/tests/app/hotkeysEditing.test.ts
@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@
 // keys never fire from an input inside an open shadow root or from a custom
 // field element inside a form (a closed root hides its input), and the save
 // shortcuts commit a taglist's typed-but-uncommitted tag before saving, the
-// way a pointer click on the button does. No application names appear in
-// framework tests.
+// way a pointer click on the button does. RB-WR-01: the same holds for an
+// input inside a plugin field type's shadow root, open or closed, where
+// document.activeElement is the host and blur() on the host does nothing. No
+// application names appear in framework tests.
 import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
 import { enableAutoUnmount, flushPromises } from '@vue/test-utils'
 import { closeShortcutHelp, installHotkeys, shortcutHelp } from '../../src/app/hotkeys'
@@ -122,6 +124,66 @@ describe('plain keys from editable controls hidden in shadow DOM', () => {
   })
 })
 
+// A plugin field type that commits on its inner input's native change event,
+// as PluginField's summer-change protocol allows. happy-dom fires no change
+// on blur; a browser does, so the input emulates it.
+function shadowField(mode: ShadowRootMode): { host: HTMLElement; input: HTMLInputElement } {
+  const host = document.createElement('div')
+  const input = document.createElement('input')
+  let committed = ''
+  input.addEventListener('blur', () => {
+    if (input.value !== committed) {
+      committed = input.value
+      input.dispatchEvent(new Event('change', { bubbles: true }))
+    }
+  })
+  input.addEventListener('change', () => {
+    host.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('summer-change', { bubbles: true, composed: true, detail: { value: input.value } }))
+  })
+  host.attachShadow({ mode }).appendChild(input)
+  return { host, input }
+}
+
+describe('save shortcuts commit a draft inside a shadow root', () => {
+  for (const mode of ['open', 'closed'] as const) {
+    for (const [name, key, init] of [
+      ['Ctrl+S', 's', { ctrlKey: true }],
+      ['Ctrl+Enter', 'Enter', { ctrlKey: true }],
+    ] as const) {
+      it(`${name} commits the typed value of an input in a ${mode} root before the click`, () => {
+        uninstalls.push(installHotkeys())
+        const form = document.createElement('form')
+        const { host, input } = shadowField(mode)
+        form.appendChild(host)
+        document.body.appendChild(form)
+        let value: unknown = 'initial'
+        host.addEventListener('summer-change', (event) => {
+          value = (event as CustomEvent<{ value: unknown }>).detail.value
+        })
+        const saved: unknown[] = []
+        const save = document.createElement('button')
+        save.type = 'button'
+        save.setAttribute('data-hotkey', 'mod+s mod+enter')
+        save.addEventListener('click', () => saved.push(value))
+        document.body.appendChild(save)
+
+        input.focus()
+        input.value = 'draft'
+        expect(document.activeElement).toBe(host)
+
+        const event = new KeyboardEvent('keydown', { key, bubbles: true, cancelable: true, composed: true, ...init })
+        input.dispatchEvent(event)
+        expect(event.defaultPrevented).toBe(true)
+        expect(saved).toEqual(['draft'])
+        if (mode === 'open') {
+          // Focus goes back to the input the admin was typing in.
+          expect(host.shadowRoot!.activeElement).toBe(input)
+        }
+      })
+    }
+  }
+})
+
 describe('save shortcuts commit a taglist draft', () => {
   const BASE = `${API}/acme/demo/widgets`
   const RECORD = `${BASE}/1`