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A central challenge in realizing this potential is achieving robust spatial alignment across modalities and sections. Although numerous alignment methods have been developed, most are designed for single-modality sections or specific modality combinations, with few enabling modality-agnostic alignment. Cross-modal alignment remains difficult due to the absence of shared molecular features, partial spatial overlap, and nonrigid tissue deformations. To address these challenges, we introduce SPOmiAlign, a modality-agnostic framework for spatial multimodal alignment, enabled by a feature-matching foundation model that serves as a general computational primitive for spatial multi-omics alignment. The framework enables accurate cross-modal spatial alignment without manual intervention or modality-specific tuning. Across diverse multimodal benchmarks, SPOmiAlign consistently achieves higher alignment accuracy than existing methods. 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