diff --git a/.changeset/great-lions-work.md b/.changeset/great-lions-work.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0d0c8eb66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/great-lions-work.md
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+---
+"@apollo/composition": patch
+"@apollo/federation-internals": patch
+---
+
+Modifies the type for the argument of the `@requiresScopes` from `[federation__Scope!]!` to `[[federation__Scope!]!]!`.
+
+The `@requiresScopes` directives has been pre-emptively introduced in 2.5.0 to support an upcoming Apollo Router
+feature around scoped accesses. The argument for `@requiresScopes` in that upcoming feature is changed to accommodate a
+new semantic. Note that this technically a breaking change to the `@requiresScopes` directive definition, but as the
+full feature using that directive has been released yet, this directive cannot effectively be used and this should have
+no concrete impact.
+  
diff --git a/composition-js/src/__tests__/compose.test.ts b/composition-js/src/__tests__/compose.test.ts
index a92320874..71c09d67e 100644
--- a/composition-js/src/__tests__/compose.test.ts
+++ b/composition-js/src/__tests__/compose.test.ts
@@ -4493,7 +4493,7 @@ describe('composition', () => {
         "https://specs.apollo.dev/requiresScopes/v0.1"
       );
       expect(printDirectiveDefinition(result.schema.directive('requiresScopes')!)).toMatchString(`
-        directive @requiresScopes(scopes: [requiresScopes__Scope!]!) on FIELD_DEFINITION | OBJECT | INTERFACE | SCALAR | ENUM
+        directive @requiresScopes(scopes: [[requiresScopes__Scope!]!]!) on FIELD_DEFINITION | OBJECT | INTERFACE | SCALAR | ENUM
       `);
     });
 
@@ -4527,7 +4527,7 @@ describe('composition', () => {
         const invalidDefinition = {
           typeDefs: gql`
             scalar federation__Scope
-            directive @requiresScopes(scopes: [federation__Scope!]!) on ENUM_VALUE
+            directive @requiresScopes(scopes: [[federation__Scope!]!]!) on ENUM_VALUE
 
             type Query {
               a: Int
@@ -4565,7 +4565,7 @@ describe('composition', () => {
         const result = composeAsFed2Subgraphs([invalidDefinition]);
         expect(errors(result)[0]).toEqual([
           "DIRECTIVE_DEFINITION_INVALID",
-          "[invalidDefinition] Invalid definition for directive \"@requiresScopes\": argument \"scopes\" should have type \"[federation__Scope!]!\" but found type \"[federation__Scope]!\"",
+          "[invalidDefinition] Invalid definition for directive \"@requiresScopes\": argument \"scopes\" should have type \"[[federation__Scope!]!]!\" but found type \"[federation__Scope]!\"",
         ]);
       });
 
diff --git a/internals-js/src/requiresScopesSpec.ts b/internals-js/src/requiresScopesSpec.ts
index f0bdb918a..2d0744eb3 100644
--- a/internals-js/src/requiresScopesSpec.ts
+++ b/internals-js/src/requiresScopesSpec.ts
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ export class RequiresScopesSpecDefinition extends FeatureDefinition {
           const scopeName = feature.typeNameInSchema(RequiresScopesTypeName.SCOPE);
           const scopeType = schema.type(scopeName);
           assert(scopeType, () => `Expected "${scopeName}" to be defined`);
-          return new NonNullType(new ListType(new NonNullType(scopeType)));
+          return new NonNullType(new ListType(new NonNullType(new ListType(new NonNullType(scopeType)))));
         },
         compositionStrategy: ARGUMENT_COMPOSITION_STRATEGIES.UNION,
       }],