diff --git a/.github/workflows/z3-smoke.yml b/.github/workflows/z3-smoke.yml
index 1ba3b59..2f947cb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/z3-smoke.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/z3-smoke.yml
@@ -214,6 +214,24 @@ jobs:
             sleep 5
           done
 
+      - name: z_importaddress is compiled in (transparent-key-import)
+        run: |
+          set -euxo pipefail
+          # Watch-only transparent import is feature-gated at compile time
+          # (transparent-key-import, pulled in by zcashd-import in the
+          # Dockerfile). A build without it answers every z_importaddress call
+          # with "requires the transparent-key-import feature". Invalid hex
+          # with a parseable account UUID deterministically reaches the
+          # feature-gated parser instead, which must answer "Invalid hex
+          # encoding": a positive proof the real implementation is present,
+          # with no wallet-account state involved.
+          # (`zallet rpc` parses each param as JSON, hence the quoted strings.)
+          out=$(docker compose exec -T zallet zallet \
+              --datadir /var/lib/zallet --config /etc/zallet/zallet.toml \
+              rpc z_importaddress '"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"' '"zz"' 2>&1) || true
+          echo "$out"
+          echo "$out" | grep "Invalid hex encoding"
+
       - name: No crash-loops, no accidental exposure
         run: |
           set -euxo pipefail
diff --git a/deploy/z3-stack/README.md b/deploy/z3-stack/README.md
index 0f0a63e..fee91cc 100644
--- a/deploy/z3-stack/README.md
+++ b/deploy/z3-stack/README.md
@@ -170,6 +170,46 @@ docker port zaino    # empty (unless you deliberately published gRPC)
 docker port zallet   # empty (unless you deliberately published the wallet RPC)
 ```
 
+## Watch-only transparent import (z_importaddress)
+
+Migrating a zcashd `importaddress` / `importmulti` watch-only flow? Zallet's
+equivalent is `z_importaddress`, and the `zero-zallet` images ship with it
+enabled (the Dockerfile builds with `--features rpc-cli,zcashd-import`, which
+includes the `transparent-key-import` feature). It is a compile-time feature;
+there is no `zallet.toml` or environment switch.
+
+Two differences from zcashd matter:
+
+- **It takes a hex-encoded public key (P2PKH) or redeem script (P2SH), not a
+  `t1...` address.** zcashd accepted the bare address and watched its
+  scriptPubKey; zallet needs the actual key material. For a P2PKH address you
+  must supply its 33-byte compressed (or 65-byte uncompressed) pubkey.
+- **`rescan` (third parameter, default `true`) rescans from the target
+  account's birthday, not from genesis.** The call returns immediately and
+  the scan runs in the background sync tasks (watch `getwalletstatus`).
+  History older than the account's birthday will not be discovered, and
+  `z_getnewaccount` pins a new account's birthday at the current chain tip.
+  To import an address that already has history, create the target account
+  with `z_recoveraccounts` instead: it takes an explicit `birthday_height`,
+  which must be set before the address's first use.
+
+```sh
+# The account UUID comes from z_getnewaccount / z_recoveraccounts (or
+# z_listaccounts). The `zallet rpc` CLI parses each param as JSON, so
+# string params need the extra quotes:
+docker compose exec zallet zallet \
+  --datadir /var/lib/zallet --config /etc/zallet/zallet.toml \
+  rpc z_importaddress '"<account-uuid>"' '"<hex-pubkey-or-redeem-script>"'
+#   -> {"type": "p2pkh", "address": "t1..."}
+```
+
+One caveat when auditing a binary: `help` and `rpc.discover` list every
+method known at build time, whether or not its feature was compiled in, so
+`help z_importaddress` proves nothing. A build without the feature answers
+every call with "z_importaddress requires the transparent-key-import
+feature"; these images answer with real parameter validation, and the smoke
+workflow asserts exactly that.
+
 ## Security notes
 
 - **Never publish Zebra's 8232.** It is unauthenticated by design here;