diff --git a/crates/cm-api/src/delivery_secrets.rs b/crates/cm-api/src/delivery_secrets.rs
index ea4b090..708770b 100644
--- a/crates/cm-api/src/delivery_secrets.rs
+++ b/crates/cm-api/src/delivery_secrets.rs
@@ -92,6 +92,40 @@ pub fn redact(text: &str, secrets: &[(String, String)]) -> String {
     out
 }
 
+/// The watched secrets, read once per process. Keys do not change under a
+/// running server; reading the environment on every recorded event would.
+pub fn cached() -> &'static [(String, String)] {
+    static S: std::sync::OnceLock<Vec<(String, String)>> = std::sync::OnceLock::new();
+    S.get_or_init(from_env)
+}
+
+/// `text` with the process's watched secrets redacted, or unchanged (and
+/// unallocated) when none appear.
+pub fn scrub(text: &str) -> std::borrow::Cow<'_, str> {
+    let secrets = cached();
+    if leaks_in(text, secrets).is_empty() {
+        std::borrow::Cow::Borrowed(text)
+    } else {
+        std::borrow::Cow::Owned(redact(text, secrets))
+    }
+}
+
+/// A JSON value with the watched secrets redacted from every string in it.
+///
+/// Through the serialized form: a secret has no quote or backslash in it, so
+/// replacing it with `[REDACTED:NAME]` leaves the JSON valid. If it somehow did
+/// not re-parse, the redacted TEXT is kept as a string rather than the
+/// original value — failing toward hiding the secret.
+pub fn scrub_json(v: serde_json::Value) -> serde_json::Value {
+    let raw = v.to_string();
+    match scrub(&raw) {
+        std::borrow::Cow::Borrowed(_) => v,
+        std::borrow::Cow::Owned(clean) => {
+            serde_json::from_str(&clean).unwrap_or(serde_json::Value::String(clean))
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 /// The refusal recorded in place of a push.
 pub fn refusal(names: &[String]) -> String {
     format!(
@@ -156,6 +190,18 @@ mod tests {
         }
     }
 
+    /// JSON stays JSON after redaction, including a secret inside a nested
+    /// tool response — the shape a `printenv` lands in.
+    #[test]
+    fn json_redaction_keeps_the_document_valid() {
+        let v = serde_json::json!({"response":{"stdout":"ZAI=a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8c9d0.ZyXwVuTsRqPo\n"},"n":3});
+        let raw = v.to_string();
+        let clean = redact(&raw, &secrets());
+        let back: serde_json::Value = serde_json::from_str(&clean).expect("still JSON");
+        assert_eq!(back["n"], 3);
+        assert!(back["response"]["stdout"].as_str().unwrap().contains("[REDACTED:ZAI_API_KEY]"));
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn short_values_are_never_watched() {
         // A too-short value would match ordinary text; from_env drops it.
diff --git a/crates/cm-api/src/evaluator_tools.rs b/crates/cm-api/src/evaluator_tools.rs
index 3ae16b9..cd5fdec 100644
--- a/crates/cm-api/src/evaluator_tools.rs
+++ b/crates/cm-api/src/evaluator_tools.rs
@@ -366,7 +366,10 @@ impl Sandbox {
                     ran: true,
                     refused: false,
                     exit_code: out.exit_code,
-                    evidence: clamp_output(&body),
+                    // Scrubbed BEFORE the judge sees it: the judge is another
+                    // company's model, and `cat` on an agent's file would
+                    // otherwise send a leaked credential to it.
+                    evidence: crate::delivery_secrets::scrub(&clamp_output(&body)).into_owned(),
                 }
             }
         }
diff --git a/crates/cm-api/src/mission_events.rs b/crates/cm-api/src/mission_events.rs
index b0c9e4b..8e31730 100644
--- a/crates/cm-api/src/mission_events.rs
+++ b/crates/cm-api/src/mission_events.rs
@@ -114,11 +114,18 @@ impl MissionEvent {
 /// writers there are. `INSERT … SELECT … WHERE (subquery) < cap` makes the
 /// decision inside the statement.
 pub async fn record(pool: &PgPool, e: MissionEvent) {
+    // Never store a server credential. Every event a mission produces passes
+    // here — tool output (a `printenv`), judge verdicts, prompts — and all of
+    // it is served to the UI. See `delivery_secrets`.
     let detail = if e.detail.is_null() {
         Value::Object(Default::default())
     } else {
-        e.detail
+        crate::delivery_secrets::scrub_json(e.detail)
     };
+    let target = e
+        .target
+        .as_deref()
+        .map(|t| crate::delivery_secrets::scrub(t).into_owned());
     // The cap is still decided INSIDE the insert (see the test below), and now
     // only counts the kinds it is meant to bound.
     let capped = is_capped(&e.kind);
@@ -136,7 +143,7 @@ pub async fn record(pool: &PgPool, e: MissionEvent) {
     .bind(e.run_id)
     .bind(e.agent_id)
     .bind(&e.kind)
-    .bind(&e.target)
+    .bind(&target)
     .bind(&detail)
     .bind(PER_PHASE_CAP)
     .bind(capped)
diff --git a/crates/cm-api/src/phase_runner.rs b/crates/cm-api/src/phase_runner.rs
index e676472..d3426bd 100644
--- a/crates/cm-api/src/phase_runner.rs
+++ b/crates/cm-api/src/phase_runner.rs
@@ -2733,7 +2733,25 @@ async fn evaluate_finished_phases(
             .await
             .unwrap_or_else(|e| format!("(evidence collection failed: {e})"));
 
-        let verdict = crate::evaluator::evaluate(runtime, mission_id, &condition, &evidence).await;
+        // The evidence goes to an external judge; never with a credential in it.
+        let evidence = crate::delivery_secrets::scrub(&evidence).into_owned();
+        let mut verdict =
+            crate::evaluator::evaluate(runtime, mission_id, &condition, &evidence).await;
+        // The judge reads the work and QUOTES it: a live canary run recorded the
+        // canary verbatim in the verdict's reason. Redact before the verdict is
+        // stored, turned into events, or written into the repo's project memory
+        // (which later missions receive).
+        {
+            use crate::delivery_secrets::scrub;
+            verdict.reason = scrub(&verdict.reason).into_owned();
+            verdict.guidance = scrub(&verdict.guidance).into_owned();
+            for c in verdict.checks.iter_mut() {
+                c.evidence = scrub(&c.evidence).into_owned();
+            }
+            if let Some(x) = verdict.expectation.as_mut() {
+                *x = scrub(x).into_owned();
+            }
+        }
         if let Err(e) =
             crate::evaluator::record(pool, mission_id, phase_id, iteration, &verdict).await
         {