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From: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:47:29 +0000
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 =?UTF-8?q?=E2=80=94=20provenance,=20UDP=20hardening,=20multi-node,=20mode?=
 =?UTF-8?q?l=20gates,=20CSI=20policy?=
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ADR-292 (sensing-server): SourceState enum + pure transition (provenance.rs);
auth-error/unknown can never resolve to LiveVerified; synthetic exports
watermarked. Pose-fusion simulator starts SYNTHETIC and only shows LIVE on a
real decoded frame (#1557); sensing client no longer labels an unauthorized
status endpoint as live (#1526).
ADR-294 (sensing-server): NodeInference distinct from RoomInference (inference.rs);
deterministic freshness-weighted fuse_room; RateLimiter re-keyed to
(NodeId,EntityKind) so nodes do not starve each other (#1541); stale nodes go
unavailable not frozen-online (#1555).
ADR-293 (sensing-server): --udp-bind (default 127.0.0.1) + --udp-allow allowlist
+ fail-closed refusal of routable bind without allowlist unless --udp-insecure-lan
(udp_bind.rs); crate SECURITY.md documents the threat model and the deferred
per-device-auth step two.
ADR-295 (train): model_gates.rs — constant-output, unreachable-boundary (the
issue-1521 degenerate presence head), class-balance, baseline, and
metric-name-provenance gates.
ADR-296 (ci): scripts/csi-data-policy-check.sh (+ allowlist) and a workflow that
fails on tracked CSI-format/oversized-JSONL files; 6/6 self-tests pass.

Per-crate suites reported green by the swarm; CSI policy self-test 6/6 and JS
syntax verified here. Full workspace re-verification deferred until the
concurrent phase-1 spine build frees the target dir (disk pressure).

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015TcKegTS7QqhWPC2L2SzaS
---
 .github/workflows/csi-data-policy.yml         |  53 +
 scripts/csi-data-policy-check.sh              | 282 +++++
 scripts/csi-data-policy.allow                 |  14 +
 ui/pose-fusion/js/csi-simulator.js            |  26 +-
 ui/pose-fusion/js/main.js                     |  17 +-
 ui/services/sensing.service.js                |  28 +-
 .../wifi-densepose-sensing-server/SECURITY.md |  61 ++
 .../benches/mqtt_throughput.rs                |   4 +-
 .../src/inference.rs                          | 300 ++++++
 .../wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/lib.rs  |   7 +
 .../wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/main.rs | 165 ++-
 .../src/mqtt/publisher.rs                     |  18 +-
 .../src/mqtt/state.rs                         |  86 +-
 .../src/provenance.rs                         | 295 ++++++
 .../src/udp_bind.rs                           | 404 +++++++
 v2/crates/wifi-densepose-train/src/lib.rs     |  12 +
 .../wifi-densepose-train/src/model_gates.rs   | 987 ++++++++++++++++++
 17 files changed, 2706 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 .github/workflows/csi-data-policy.yml
 create mode 100755 scripts/csi-data-policy-check.sh
 create mode 100644 scripts/csi-data-policy.allow
 create mode 100644 v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/SECURITY.md
 create mode 100644 v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/inference.rs
 create mode 100644 v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/provenance.rs
 create mode 100644 v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/udp_bind.rs
 create mode 100644 v2/crates/wifi-densepose-train/src/model_gates.rs

diff --git a/.github/workflows/csi-data-policy.yml b/.github/workflows/csi-data-policy.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2d0f30dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/csi-data-policy.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+name: CSI data policy (ADR-296)
+
+# ADR-296 repository CSI data-incident guard. Fails when CSI-format files
+# (*.csi.jsonl / *.csi.meta.json) or oversized JSONL captures are tracked in
+# git. Raw CSI is person data and must never be committed (CLAUDE.md, ADR-296).
+#
+# NOTE: the tree currently still contains the pre-existing incident recordings
+# under data/recordings/ and v2/data/recordings/, whose removal is gated on
+# data-owner sign-off (ADR-296). Until they are removed this job is EXPECTED to
+# fail, and that failure documents the incident. To make it green in a
+# follow-up without weakening the guard for NEW files, set CSI_POLICY_BASELINE
+# to a file listing the acknowledged paths (see the script header).
+#
+# Checker: scripts/csi-data-policy-check.sh   Run locally: bash the same script.
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - master
+  pull_request:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  csi-data-policy:
+    name: CSI data policy check
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@11d5960a326750d5838078e36cf38b85af677262
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Self-test the policy checker (deterministic, offline)
+        run: bash scripts/csi-data-policy-check.sh --self-test
+
+      - name: Enforce CSI data policy on tracked files
+        # CSI_POLICY_BASELINE can point at an acknowledged-paths file once the
+        # owner remediates the tree; unset here so a regression fails loudly.
+        run: bash scripts/csi-data-policy-check.sh --tracked
+
+      - name: Summarize result
+        if: always()
+        run: |
+          {
+            echo '### CSI data policy (ADR-296)'
+            echo ''
+            echo '```'
+            bash scripts/csi-data-policy-check.sh --tracked 2>&1 || true
+            echo '```'
+          } >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
diff --git a/scripts/csi-data-policy-check.sh b/scripts/csi-data-policy-check.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..556e2b36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/csi-data-policy-check.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,282 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# csi-data-policy-check.sh — ADR-296 CSI data-incident repository guard.
+#
+# WHY (ADR-296): raw CSI recordings are person data (they encode breathing,
+# movement, and presence) and CLAUDE.md prohibits committing CSI or person
+# data. A stale `.gitignore` rule let ~64.6 MB of raw captures reach the tree
+# under `data/recordings/` and `v2/data/recordings/`. This check is the
+# mechanical guard that prevents the incident from getting worse: it fails when
+# CSI-format files or oversized JSONL captures are tracked/staged.
+#
+# WHAT IT FLAGS:
+#   * `*.csi.jsonl`      — raw CSI capture stream (person data)
+#   * `*.csi.meta.json`  — capture sidecar metadata
+#   * `*.jsonl` larger than CSI_POLICY_MAX_JSONL_BYTES (~5 MB default) — a
+#     capture-sized JSONL blob that almost never belongs in git.
+#
+# DETERMINISTIC / OFFLINE: no network, no clock, no randomness. It only reads
+# the file list git already knows about (or a list you pass in) and file sizes.
+#
+# USAGE:
+#   scripts/csi-data-policy-check.sh                 # scan tracked files (git ls-files)
+#   scripts/csi-data-policy-check.sh --staged        # scan the staged set (pre-commit)
+#   scripts/csi-data-policy-check.sh --files-from -   # scan a newline list on stdin
+#   scripts/csi-data-policy-check.sh --files-from FILE
+#   scripts/csi-data-policy-check.sh --self-test     # run built-in self-tests
+#
+# EXIT CODES: 0 = clean, 1 = policy violation, 2 = usage/environment error.
+#
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# ALLOWLIST (synthetic test fixtures)
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Tests may use only synthetic or expressly-consented minimal fixtures (ADR-296).
+# A file whose path matches an allow pattern is exempt. Patterns come from:
+#   * the file `scripts/csi-data-policy.allow` (one glob per line, `#` comments), and
+#   * the env var `CSI_POLICY_ALLOW` (colon-separated globs).
+# Patterns are shell globs matched against the repo-relative path, e.g.
+#   scripts/tests/fixtures/csi-policy/*.csi.jsonl
+#
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# BASELINE (acknowledged pre-existing incident, ADR-296)
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# The tree today ALREADY contains the incident recordings under
+# `data/recordings/` and `v2/data/recordings/`. Removing them is destructive and
+# gated on data-owner sign-off (ADR-296 "Decision"), so this guard is EXPECTED to
+# fail on the current tree — that failure documents the incident.
+#
+# Once the owner removes those files, or to acknowledge them in the interim
+# without weakening the guard for NEW files, point `CSI_POLICY_BASELINE` at a
+# file listing the acknowledged repo-relative paths (one per line, `#` comments,
+# globs allowed). Baseline-matched files are reported as "acknowledged" and do
+# NOT fail the check; every other violation still fails. This is the intended
+# mechanism to make the CI job green in a follow-up once remediation lands.
+#
+set -euo pipefail
+
+# --- configuration -----------------------------------------------------------
+# ~5 MB default. Override with CSI_POLICY_MAX_JSONL_BYTES for tests/tuning.
+MAX_JSONL_BYTES="${CSI_POLICY_MAX_JSONL_BYTES:-5242880}"
+
+SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
+ALLOW_FILE="${CSI_POLICY_ALLOW_FILE:-$SCRIPT_DIR/csi-data-policy.allow}"
+
+# --- allow / baseline pattern loading ----------------------------------------
+# Read glob patterns from a file (skip blank lines and `#` comments) into the
+# named array. Missing files are treated as empty (not an error).
+read_patterns() {
+  local file="$1" __arrname="$2" line
+  eval "$__arrname=()"
+  [[ -f "$file" ]] || return 0
+  while IFS= read -r line || [[ -n "$line" ]]; do
+    line="${line%%#*}"
+    # trim leading/trailing whitespace
+    line="${line#"${line%%[![:space:]]*}"}"
+    line="${line%"${line##*[![:space:]]}"}"
+    [[ -z "$line" ]] && continue
+    eval "$__arrname+=(\"\$line\")"
+  done < "$file"
+}
+
+ALLOW_PATTERNS=()
+read_patterns "$ALLOW_FILE" ALLOW_PATTERNS
+# Append colon-separated CSI_POLICY_ALLOW entries.
+if [[ -n "${CSI_POLICY_ALLOW:-}" ]]; then
+  local_ifs="$IFS"; IFS=':'
+  for p in $CSI_POLICY_ALLOW; do [[ -n "$p" ]] && ALLOW_PATTERNS+=("$p"); done
+  IFS="$local_ifs"
+fi
+
+BASELINE_PATTERNS=()
+if [[ -n "${CSI_POLICY_BASELINE:-}" ]]; then
+  [[ -f "$CSI_POLICY_BASELINE" ]] || {
+    echo "ERROR: CSI_POLICY_BASELINE points at a missing file: $CSI_POLICY_BASELINE" >&2
+    exit 2
+  }
+  read_patterns "$CSI_POLICY_BASELINE" BASELINE_PATTERNS
+fi
+
+# Return 0 if $1 matches any glob in the array named by $2.
+matches_any() {
+  local path="$1" __arrname="$2" pat
+  local -a arr
+  eval "arr=(\"\${${__arrname}[@]}\")"
+  for pat in "${arr[@]:-}"; do
+    [[ -z "$pat" ]] && continue
+    # shellcheck disable=SC2053  # intentional glob match
+    [[ "$path" == $pat ]] && return 0
+  done
+  return 1
+}
+
+# --- per-file classification -------------------------------------------------
+# Echo a violation reason for $1, or nothing if the file is fine. CSI-format
+# files are always flagged; other .jsonl files are flagged only when oversized.
+classify() {
+  local f="$1"
+  case "$f" in
+    *.csi.jsonl)     echo "CSI capture stream (*.csi.jsonl)"; return 0 ;;
+    *.csi.meta.json) echo "CSI capture metadata (*.csi.meta.json)"; return 0 ;;
+  esac
+  case "$f" in
+    *.jsonl)
+      local size
+      size="$(file_size "$f")"
+      if [[ "$size" -gt "$MAX_JSONL_BYTES" ]]; then
+        echo "oversized JSONL capture (${size} bytes > ${MAX_JSONL_BYTES})"
+        return 0
+      fi
+      ;;
+  esac
+  return 0
+}
+
+# Best-effort byte size for a repo-relative path. Prefer the working-tree file;
+# fall back to git's stored blob so the check works on a bare/partial checkout.
+# Prints 0 when the size cannot be determined (glob rules still apply).
+file_size() {
+  local f="$1" sz
+  if [[ -f "$f" ]]; then
+    sz="$(stat -c%s "$f" 2>/dev/null || stat -f%z "$f" 2>/dev/null || echo 0)"
+    echo "${sz:-0}"; return 0
+  fi
+  if command -v git >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    sz="$(git cat-file -s ":$f" 2>/dev/null || git cat-file -s "HEAD:$f" 2>/dev/null || echo 0)"
+    echo "${sz:-0}"; return 0
+  fi
+  echo 0
+}
+
+# --- core scan ---------------------------------------------------------------
+# Read newline-separated repo-relative paths on stdin and enforce policy.
+# Exits 1 if any non-baseline, non-allowlisted violation is found.
+scan_stdin() {
+  local violations=0 acknowledged=0 f reason
+  while IFS= read -r f || [[ -n "$f" ]]; do
+    [[ -z "$f" ]] && continue
+    reason="$(classify "$f")"
+    [[ -z "$reason" ]] && continue
+    if matches_any "$f" ALLOW_PATTERNS; then
+      continue  # synthetic fixture, expressly allowed
+    fi
+    if matches_any "$f" BASELINE_PATTERNS; then
+      echo "ack:   $f — $reason (acknowledged baseline, ADR-296)" >&2
+      acknowledged=$((acknowledged + 1))
+      continue
+    fi
+    echo "BLOCK: $f — $reason" >&2
+    violations=$((violations + 1))
+  done
+
+  if [[ "$acknowledged" -gt 0 ]]; then
+    echo "note: $acknowledged file(s) acknowledged via CSI_POLICY_BASELINE (ADR-296)." >&2
+  fi
+
+  if [[ "$violations" -gt 0 ]]; then
+    echo "" >&2
+    echo "FAIL: $violations CSI/person-data policy violation(s) (ADR-296)." >&2
+    echo "      Raw CSI is person data and must not be tracked in git. See" >&2
+    echo "      docs/adr/ADR-296-csi-data-incident-repo-controls.md." >&2
+    echo "      Synthetic test fixtures can be allowlisted in $ALLOW_FILE." >&2
+    return 1
+  fi
+  echo "OK: no CSI/person-data policy violations." >&2
+  return 0
+}
+
+# --- input sources -----------------------------------------------------------
+emit_tracked() {
+  command -v git >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "ERROR: git not found" >&2; exit 2; }
+  git ls-files
+}
+
+emit_staged() {
+  command -v git >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "ERROR: git not found" >&2; exit 2; }
+  git diff --cached --name-only --diff-filter=ACMR
+}
+
+# --- self-tests --------------------------------------------------------------
+# Deterministic, offline. Builds synthetic fixtures in a temp dir and asserts
+# the check flags a *.csi.jsonl / oversized JSONL and passes allowlisted ones.
+self_test() {
+  local tmp rc pass=0 fail=0
+  tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
+
+  mkdir -p "$tmp/fixtures"
+  printf '{"csi":[1,2,3]}\n' > "$tmp/real.csi.jsonl"
+  printf '{"schema":1}\n'     > "$tmp/real.csi.meta.json"
+  printf '{"note":"ok"}\n'    > "$tmp/small.jsonl"
+  printf '{"synthetic":true}\n' > "$tmp/fixtures/synthetic.csi.jsonl"
+  # Oversized JSONL: 40 bytes, checked against a 10-byte threshold below.
+  printf '%0.sX' {1..40} > "$tmp/big.jsonl"; printf '\n' >> "$tmp/big.jsonl"
+
+  assert() { # desc expected_rc actual_rc
+    if [[ "$2" -eq "$3" ]]; then echo "  PASS: $1"; pass=$((pass+1));
+    else echo "  FAIL: $1 (expected rc=$2, got rc=$3)"; fail=$((fail+1)); fi
+  }
+
+  echo "self-test: fixtures in $tmp"
+
+  # 1. A raw *.csi.jsonl must be blocked.
+  rc=0; printf '%s\n' "$tmp/real.csi.jsonl" | scan_stdin >/dev/null 2>&1 || rc=$?
+  assert "blocks *.csi.jsonl" 1 "$rc"
+
+  # 2. A *.csi.meta.json must be blocked.
+  rc=0; printf '%s\n' "$tmp/real.csi.meta.json" | scan_stdin >/dev/null 2>&1 || rc=$?
+  assert "blocks *.csi.meta.json" 1 "$rc"
+
+  # 3. A small, ordinary .jsonl must pass.
+  rc=0; printf '%s\n' "$tmp/small.jsonl" | scan_stdin >/dev/null 2>&1 || rc=$?
+  assert "passes small ordinary .jsonl" 0 "$rc"
+
+  # 4. An oversized .jsonl must be blocked (tiny threshold, deterministic).
+  rc=0; CSI_POLICY_MAX_JSONL_BYTES=10 bash "$0" --files-from - <<<"$tmp/big.jsonl" >/dev/null 2>&1 || rc=$?
+  assert "blocks oversized .jsonl" 1 "$rc"
+
+  # 5. An allowlisted synthetic fixture must pass despite matching *.csi.jsonl.
+  rc=0; CSI_POLICY_ALLOW="$tmp/fixtures/*.csi.jsonl" bash "$0" --files-from - \
+        <<<"$tmp/fixtures/synthetic.csi.jsonl" >/dev/null 2>&1 || rc=$?
+  assert "passes allowlisted synthetic fixture" 0 "$rc"
+
+  # 6. A baseline-acknowledged CSI file must pass (job made green post-cleanup).
+  local bl="$tmp/baseline.txt"; printf '%s\n' "$tmp/real.csi.jsonl" > "$bl"
+  rc=0; CSI_POLICY_BASELINE="$bl" bash "$0" --files-from - \
+        <<<"$tmp/real.csi.jsonl" >/dev/null 2>&1 || rc=$?
+  assert "passes baseline-acknowledged file" 0 "$rc"
+
+  echo "self-test: $pass passed, $fail failed"
+  rm -rf "$tmp"
+  [[ "$fail" -eq 0 ]]
+}
+
+# --- entrypoint --------------------------------------------------------------
+main() {
+  local mode="tracked" from=""
+  while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
+    case "$1" in
+      --staged)      mode="staged" ;;
+      --tracked)     mode="tracked" ;;
+      --files-from)  mode="files-from"; from="${2:-}"; shift ;;
+      --self-test)   mode="self-test" ;;
+      -h|--help)     grep '^#' "$0" | sed 's/^#\s\{0,1\}//'; exit 0 ;;
+      *) echo "ERROR: unknown argument '$1'" >&2; exit 2 ;;
+    esac
+    shift
+  done
+
+  case "$mode" in
+    self-test)  self_test ;;
+    tracked)    emit_tracked | scan_stdin ;;
+    staged)     emit_staged  | scan_stdin ;;
+    files-from)
+      if [[ "$from" == "-" || -z "$from" ]]; then
+        scan_stdin
+      else
+        [[ -f "$from" ]] || { echo "ERROR: --files-from file not found: $from" >&2; exit 2; }
+        scan_stdin < "$from"
+      fi
+      ;;
+  esac
+}
+
+main "$@"
diff --git a/scripts/csi-data-policy.allow b/scripts/csi-data-policy.allow
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2d5ce01a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/csi-data-policy.allow
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# csi-data-policy.allow — ADR-296 synthetic-fixture allowlist.
+#
+# One shell glob per line (repo-relative paths). `#` starts a comment; blank
+# lines are ignored. A tracked/staged file whose path matches any pattern here
+# is exempt from the CSI data-policy check (scripts/csi-data-policy-check.sh).
+#
+# ONLY synthetic or expressly-consented minimal fixtures belong here (ADR-296).
+# Never allowlist a real capture to silence the guard — real CSI is person data.
+# The CSI_POLICY_ALLOW env var appends extra patterns (colon-separated) for
+# one-off/local use.
+#
+# Conventional location for synthetic CSI test fixtures generated by tests:
+scripts/tests/fixtures/csi-policy/*.csi.jsonl
+scripts/tests/fixtures/csi-policy/*.csi.meta.json
diff --git a/ui/pose-fusion/js/csi-simulator.js b/ui/pose-fusion/js/csi-simulator.js
index f234d593..5c496a51 100644
--- a/ui/pose-fusion/js/csi-simulator.js
+++ b/ui/pose-fusion/js/csi-simulator.js
@@ -55,11 +55,15 @@ export class CsiSimulator {
         this.ws = new WebSocket(url);
         this.ws.binaryType = 'arraybuffer';
         this.ws.onmessage = (evt) => this._handleLiveFrame(evt.data);
-        this.ws.onopen = () => { this.mode = 'live'; resolve(true); };
+        // ADR-292 (issue #1557): a socket that merely *opened* is NOT live —
+        // synthetic demo data keeps flowing until a real frame is decoded. We
+        // stay in demo mode (watermarked) on open; `_handleLiveFrame` flips to
+        // live only once it has parsed a verified frame.
+        this.ws.onopen = () => { this.socketOpen = true; resolve(true); };
         this.ws.onerror = () => resolve(false);
-        this.ws.onclose = () => { this.mode = 'demo'; };
+        this.ws.onclose = () => { this.mode = 'demo'; this.verifiedFrame = false; this.socketOpen = false; };
         // Timeout after 3s
-        setTimeout(() => { if (this.mode !== 'live') resolve(false); }, 3000);
+        setTimeout(() => { if (!this.socketOpen) resolve(false); }, 3000);
       } catch {
         resolve(false);
       }
@@ -69,9 +73,12 @@ export class CsiSimulator {
   disconnect() {
     if (this.ws) { this.ws.close(); this.ws = null; }
     this.mode = 'demo';
+    this.verifiedFrame = false;
+    this.socketOpen = false;
   }
 
-  get isLive() { return this.mode === 'live'; }
+  /** True only once a real frame has been decoded — not merely on socket open. */
+  get isLive() { return this.mode === 'live' && this.verifiedFrame === true; }
 
   /**
    * Update person state from video detection (for correlated demo data).
@@ -292,6 +299,15 @@ export class CsiSimulator {
       this._liveAmplitude[i] = Math.sqrt(real * real + imag * imag) / 2048;
       this._livePhase[i] = Math.atan2(imag, real);
     }
+    // ADR-292 (issue #1557): a real frame was decoded — only now is this live.
+    this._markVerifiedFrame();
+  }
+
+  /** ADR-292: promote from watermarked demo to live once a real frame lands. */
+  _markVerifiedFrame() {
+    this.verifiedFrame = true;
+    this.mode = 'live';
+    if (typeof this.onVerifiedFrame === 'function') this.onVerifiedFrame();
   }
 
   _handleJsonFrame(msg) {
@@ -311,6 +327,8 @@ export class CsiSimulator {
       for (let i = 0; i < n; i++) {
         this._liveAmplitude[i] = Math.abs(ampArr[i]) * scale;
       }
+      // ADR-292 (issue #1557): a real frame carrying amplitude was decoded.
+      this._markVerifiedFrame();
     }
 
     // Phase from node (if available)
diff --git a/ui/pose-fusion/js/main.js b/ui/pose-fusion/js/main.js
index 7b7eb4af..d6860ac5 100644
--- a/ui/pose-fusion/js/main.js
+++ b/ui/pose-fusion/js/main.js
@@ -151,12 +151,21 @@ function init() {
   if (wsUrlInput) wsUrlInput.value = defaultWsUrl;
   // ADR-272: exchange the stored bearer for a single-use ?ticket= before the
   // upgrade — a browser cannot set an Authorization header on a WebSocket.
-  withWsTicket(defaultWsUrl).then(u => csiSimulator.connectLive(u)).then(ok => {
-    if (ok && connectWsBtn) {
+  // ADR-292 (issue #1557): opening the socket does NOT mean live — the
+  // simulator keeps producing watermarked SYNTHETIC data until a real CSI frame
+  // is decoded. Only the verified-frame callback promotes the label to LIVE.
+  csiSimulator.onVerifiedFrame = () => {
+    if (connectWsBtn) {
       connectWsBtn.textContent = '✓ Live ESP32';
       connectWsBtn.classList.add('active');
-      statusLabel.textContent = 'LIVE CSI';
-      statusDot.classList.remove('offline');
+    }
+    statusLabel.textContent = 'LIVE CSI';
+    statusDot.classList.remove('offline');
+  };
+  withWsTicket(defaultWsUrl).then(u => csiSimulator.connectLive(u)).then(ok => {
+    if (ok) {
+      // Socket open, but no verified frame yet — stay honest.
+      statusLabel.textContent = 'SYNTHETIC';
     }
   });
 
diff --git a/ui/services/sensing.service.js b/ui/services/sensing.service.js
index e07a09cd..9644572a 100644
--- a/ui/services/sensing.service.js
+++ b/ui/services/sensing.service.js
@@ -304,25 +304,41 @@ class SensingService {
    * hardware or simulation. Called once on WebSocket open.
    */
   async _detectServerSource() {
+    // ADR-292 (issue #1526): an unreachable or unauthorized status endpoint is
+    // an *unknown* state — it must NOT collapse to "live". Prefer the canonical
+    // `source_state` the server now returns; on any error stay conservative
+    // (server-simulated) until a real frame's `source` field promotes us.
     try {
       const resp = await fetch('/api/v1/status');
       if (resp.ok) {
         const json = await resp.json();
-        this._applyServerSource(json.source);
+        this._applyServerSource(json.source, json.source_state);
       } else {
-        // Can't reach status endpoint — assume live until first frame tells us
-        this._setDataSource('live');
+        this._setDataSource('server-simulated');
       }
     } catch {
-      this._setDataSource('live');
+      this._setDataSource('server-simulated');
     }
   }
 
   /**
-   * Map a raw server source string to the UI data-source label.
+   * Map a raw server source string (and optional canonical ADR-292
+   * `source_state`) to the UI data-source label.
    */
-  _applyServerSource(rawSource) {
+  _applyServerSource(rawSource, sourceState) {
     this._serverSource = rawSource;
+    // ADR-292: only the verified/unverified live states may show "live"; any
+    // synthetic/stale/disconnected state must not.
+    if (sourceState) {
+      if (sourceState === 'live_verified' || sourceState === 'live_unverified') {
+        this._setDataSource('live');
+      } else if (sourceState === 'synthetic') {
+        this._setDataSource('server-simulated');
+      } else {
+        this._setDataSource('server-simulated');
+      }
+      return;
+    }
     if (rawSource === 'esp32' || rawSource === 'wifi' || rawSource === 'live') {
       this._setDataSource('live');
     } else if (rawSource === 'simulated' || rawSource === 'simulate') {
diff --git a/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/SECURITY.md b/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/SECURITY.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1c07798b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/SECURITY.md
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+# Security notes — wifi-densepose-sensing-server
+
+## UDP CSI data plane (ADR-293)
+
+The sensing server ingests CSI/radar frames over UDP from ESP32, MediaTek,
+Qualcomm, and RTL8720F sensor nodes. A valid-shaped frame flips an
+auto-detecting server into a live source state and influences
+presence/vital/automation outputs.
+
+### Threat model
+
+Any host that can reach the UDP port can inject a valid-shaped frame. Prior to
+ADR-293 the receiver bound `0.0.0.0` unconditionally, so on a routable
+deployment the data plane was open to the entire LAN.
+
+The controls in ADR-293 (step one) are:
+
+- **`--udp-bind` (env `RUVIEW_UDP_BIND`), default `127.0.0.1`.** The receiver is
+  loopback-only by default and not reachable off-host. Binding to a routable
+  address (`0.0.0.0` or a LAN IP) is now an explicit operator choice, mirroring
+  the HTTP `--bind-addr` path.
+- **`--udp-allow <IP/CIDR,...>` (env `RUVIEW_UDP_ALLOW`).** An optional source
+  allowlist. When set, frames from non-matching sources are dropped and counted;
+  loopback is always allowed.
+- **`--udp-insecure-lan` (env `RUVIEW_UDP_INSECURE_LAN`).** A routable bind with
+  no allowlist is *refused at boot* unless this override is passed. The name
+  makes the residual risk legible.
+
+A startup security log line states the resolved bind scope and whether an
+allowlist is active.
+
+### Residual risk — the allowlist is not authentication
+
+An IP/CIDR allowlist restricts *which addresses* may deliver frames. It does
+**not** authenticate the sender. On a trusted LAN an attacker who can spoof a
+source IP, or who controls an allowlisted host, can still inject frames. Treat a
+routable bind as a soft control, not a security boundary.
+
+### Deferred to a follow-up ADR (step two)
+
+The following are **not** implemented yet and the data plane must not be
+presented as authenticated:
+
+- per-device provisioned keys
+- message authentication / AEAD (MAC over each frame)
+- device identifiers
+- monotonic sequence numbers
+- a freshness window
+- replay rejection
+
+Real-silicon validation of the LAN path remains required before any deployment
+claim.
+
+### Safe deployment
+
+- Prefer the loopback default. Co-locate sensor decoding on the same host, or
+  place a trusted gateway in front.
+- If you must bind routable, always pass `--udp-allow` scoped to the sensor
+  subnet, and segregate sensors on their own VLAN.
+- Do not rely on the allowlist alone against an on-LAN adversary until step two
+  ships.
diff --git a/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/benches/mqtt_throughput.rs b/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/benches/mqtt_throughput.rs
index 7ad87de6..da2df633 100644
--- a/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/benches/mqtt_throughput.rs
+++ b/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/benches/mqtt_throughput.rs
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ fn bench_rate_limit(c: &mut Criterion) {
             RateLimiter::new,
             |mut rl| {
                 black_box(rl.allow(
+                    black_box("bench-node"),
                     black_box(EntityKind::HeartRate),
                     Duration::from_secs(0),
                     &r,
@@ -148,11 +149,12 @@ fn bench_rate_limit(c: &mut Criterion) {
         bench.iter_batched(
             || {
                 let mut rl = RateLimiter::new();
-                rl.allow(EntityKind::HeartRate, Duration::from_secs(0), &r);
+                rl.allow("bench-node", EntityKind::HeartRate, Duration::from_secs(0), &r);
                 rl
             },
             |mut rl| {
                 black_box(rl.allow(
+                    black_box("bench-node"),
                     black_box(EntityKind::HeartRate),
                     Duration::from_secs(1),
                     &r,
diff --git a/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/inference.rs b/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/inference.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e1599985
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/inference.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,300 @@
+//! ADR-294 — per-node inference vs. fused room inference.
+//!
+//! The multi-node path used to collapse two distinct concepts into one:
+//!
+//! 1. A **per-node** classification (what one node sees), and
+//! 2. A **room aggregate** (the fused belief across all nodes).
+//!
+//! Because the top-level room classification was taken from the latest-arriving
+//! node while other features were fused, disagreeing nodes made room presence
+//! flip at packet frequency (issue #1555); and because the MQTT mapper fell back
+//! to the room aggregate when a node lacked its own classification, every node
+//! could publish the same value (issues #1540, #1554).
+//!
+//! This module separates the two types and provides a **pure, deterministic**
+//! room fusion ([`fuse_room`]): identical input sets yield identical output,
+//! independent of node ordering, and a node that has gone silent longer than
+//! the stale window contributes nothing (it goes unavailable/stale rather than
+//! holding a frozen value). Freshness is carried as milliseconds so the types
+//! serialize cleanly and the logic needs no clock.
+
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+
+/// One node's own inference — never the room aggregate. `NodeInfo` carries this
+/// so a node reports what *it* sees, with no silent fallback to the room value.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct NodeInference {
+    /// Coarse classification label this node reports (e.g. `"present_moving"`,
+    /// `"present_still"`, `"absent"`). Node-local; never overwritten by fusion.
+    pub classification: String,
+    /// Confidence in `classification`, clamped to `0.0..=1.0`.
+    pub confidence: f64,
+    /// Age of the backing frame in milliseconds. `None` when the node has never
+    /// reported.
+    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub age_ms: Option<u64>,
+}
+
+impl NodeInference {
+    /// Construct a per-node inference, clamping `confidence` into range.
+    pub fn new(classification: impl Into<String>, confidence: f64, age_ms: Option<u64>) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            classification: classification.into(),
+            confidence: clamp01(confidence),
+            age_ms,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// A node is stale when it has never reported, or its last frame is at least
+    /// `stale_after_ms` old. Stale nodes do not vote in [`fuse_room`].
+    pub fn is_stale(&self, stale_after_ms: u64) -> bool {
+        match self.age_ms {
+            None => true,
+            Some(a) => a >= stale_after_ms,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Freshness weight in `[0.0, 1.0]`: `1.0` when brand new, decaying linearly
+    /// to `0.0` at `stale_after_ms`, and exactly `0.0` once stale. Deterministic
+    /// and clock-free.
+    pub fn freshness_weight(&self, stale_after_ms: u64) -> f64 {
+        if stale_after_ms == 0 {
+            return 0.0;
+        }
+        match self.age_ms {
+            None => 0.0,
+            Some(a) if a >= stale_after_ms => 0.0,
+            Some(a) => {
+                let remaining = stale_after_ms.saturating_sub(a) as f64;
+                clamp01(remaining / stale_after_ms as f64)
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// The fused room aggregate — computed explicitly from the set of per-node
+/// inferences, never by overwriting any node's state.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct RoomInference {
+    /// Winning classification across the contributing nodes. `"unavailable"`
+    /// when no fresh node contributed (never a frozen last value).
+    pub classification: String,
+    /// Freshness-weighted mean confidence of the nodes that voted for the
+    /// winning class, `0.0..=1.0`.
+    pub confidence: f64,
+    /// How many non-stale nodes contributed to this aggregate.
+    pub contributing_nodes: usize,
+}
+
+impl RoomInference {
+    /// The state a room takes when no node currently backs it. Explicit so
+    /// callers never invent an online value out of nothing.
+    pub fn unavailable() -> Self {
+        Self {
+            classification: "unavailable".to_string(),
+            confidence: 0.0,
+            contributing_nodes: 0,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Migration accessor for consumers of the pre-ADR-294 aggregate-only shape:
+    /// with a single node, that node's inference *is* the room aggregate. This
+    /// preserves single-node behavior (one node = one inference) exactly.
+    pub fn from_single_node(node: &NodeInference, stale_after_ms: u64) -> Self {
+        fuse_room(std::iter::once(node), stale_after_ms)
+    }
+}
+
+/// Fuse per-node inferences into one room aggregate.
+///
+/// Pure and deterministic (ADR-294): the result depends only on the *set* of
+/// inputs, not on their order or on which arrived last. Each non-stale node
+/// votes for its classification with its freshness weight; the class with the
+/// greatest total freshness weight wins, ties broken by classification string
+/// order (via the sorted `BTreeMap`) so the outcome is stable. Room confidence
+/// is the freshness-weighted mean confidence of the winning class's voters.
+///
+/// A node silent longer than `stale_after_ms` contributes nothing; if no node
+/// contributes, the room is [`RoomInference::unavailable`] rather than a frozen
+/// online value.
+pub fn fuse_room<'a, I>(nodes: I, stale_after_ms: u64) -> RoomInference
+where
+    I: IntoIterator<Item = &'a NodeInference>,
+{
+    use std::collections::BTreeMap;
+
+    // Per class: (sum of freshness weights, sum of freshness*confidence).
+    let mut tally: BTreeMap<&str, (f64, f64)> = BTreeMap::new();
+    let mut contributing = 0usize;
+
+    for n in nodes {
+        let w = n.freshness_weight(stale_after_ms);
+        if w <= 0.0 {
+            continue;
+        }
+        contributing += 1;
+        let entry = tally.entry(n.classification.as_str()).or_insert((0.0, 0.0));
+        entry.0 += w;
+        entry.1 += w * n.confidence;
+    }
+
+    if contributing == 0 {
+        return RoomInference::unavailable();
+    }
+
+    // BTreeMap iterates in sorted key order; `>` keeps the first (lowest-order)
+    // class on a tie, so the winner is order-independent and deterministic.
+    let mut best: Option<(&str, f64, f64)> = None;
+    for (&class, &(weight, conf_weight)) in &tally {
+        match best {
+            Some((_, bw, _)) if weight <= bw => {}
+            _ => best = Some((class, weight, conf_weight)),
+        }
+    }
+
+    let (class, weight, conf_weight) = best.expect("contributing > 0 guarantees a winner");
+    let confidence = if weight > 0.0 { clamp01(conf_weight / weight) } else { 0.0 };
+    RoomInference {
+        classification: class.to_string(),
+        confidence,
+        contributing_nodes: contributing,
+    }
+}
+
+fn clamp01(v: f64) -> f64 {
+    if v.is_nan() {
+        0.0
+    } else {
+        v.clamp(0.0, 1.0)
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    const STALE: u64 = 10_000; // 10 s
+
+    fn node(c: &str, conf: f64, age_ms: u64) -> NodeInference {
+        NodeInference::new(c, conf, Some(age_ms))
+    }
+
+    // ── NodeInference basics ─────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    #[test]
+    fn new_clamps_confidence() {
+        assert_eq!(NodeInference::new("absent", 1.7, Some(0)).confidence, 1.0);
+        assert_eq!(NodeInference::new("absent", -0.5, Some(0)).confidence, 0.0);
+        assert_eq!(NodeInference::new("absent", f64::NAN, Some(0)).confidence, 0.0);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn never_reported_node_is_stale() {
+        let n = NodeInference::new("present_moving", 0.9, None);
+        assert!(n.is_stale(STALE));
+        assert_eq!(n.freshness_weight(STALE), 0.0);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn fresh_node_is_not_stale_and_weighted() {
+        let n = node("present_moving", 0.9, 0);
+        assert!(!n.is_stale(STALE));
+        assert_eq!(n.freshness_weight(STALE), 1.0);
+        // Half the window ⇒ half weight.
+        assert!((node("x", 1.0, STALE / 2).freshness_weight(STALE) - 0.5).abs() < 1e-9);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn node_at_window_boundary_is_stale() {
+        let n = node("present_still", 0.8, STALE);
+        assert!(n.is_stale(STALE));
+        assert_eq!(n.freshness_weight(STALE), 0.0);
+    }
+
+    // ── Single-node preservation + migration accessor ────────────────────
+
+    #[test]
+    fn single_node_room_equals_that_node() {
+        let n = node("present_moving", 0.8, 100);
+        let room = fuse_room(std::iter::once(&n), STALE);
+        assert_eq!(room.classification, "present_moving");
+        assert!((room.confidence - 0.8).abs() < 1e-9, "confidence preserved");
+        assert_eq!(room.contributing_nodes, 1);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn migration_accessor_matches_single_node_fusion() {
+        let n = node("present_still", 0.6, 250);
+        assert_eq!(RoomInference::from_single_node(&n, STALE), fuse_room([&n], STALE));
+    }
+
+    // ── Deterministic, order-independent fusion ──────────────────────────
+
+    #[test]
+    fn agreeing_nodes_fuse_to_shared_class() {
+        let a = node("present_moving", 0.7, 0);
+        let b = node("present_moving", 0.9, 0);
+        let room = fuse_room([&a, &b], STALE);
+        assert_eq!(room.classification, "present_moving");
+        assert_eq!(room.contributing_nodes, 2);
+        // Freshness-weighted mean of 0.7 and 0.9 at equal weight = 0.8.
+        assert!((room.confidence - 0.8).abs() < 1e-9);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn disagreeing_equal_freshness_is_deterministic_and_order_independent() {
+        let a = node("present_moving", 0.9, 0);
+        let b = node("absent", 0.9, 0);
+        let one = fuse_room([&a, &b], STALE);
+        let two = fuse_room([&b, &a], STALE);
+        // Same result regardless of input order — no last-writer-wins.
+        assert_eq!(one, two);
+        // Tie broken by classification string order: "absent" < "present_moving".
+        assert_eq!(one.classification, "absent");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn fresher_node_outvotes_stale_disagreement() {
+        // Fresh "present_moving" vs. an older-but-still-fresh "absent".
+        let fresh = node("present_moving", 0.9, 0);
+        let older = node("absent", 0.9, STALE - 1); // weight ~0
+        let room = fuse_room([&older, &fresh], STALE);
+        assert_eq!(room.classification, "present_moving");
+    }
+
+    // ── Stale handling: unavailable, never frozen-online ─────────────────
+
+    #[test]
+    fn all_stale_nodes_yield_unavailable() {
+        let a = node("present_moving", 0.9, STALE + 1);
+        let b = NodeInference::new("present_still", 0.8, None);
+        let room = fuse_room([&a, &b], STALE);
+        assert_eq!(room, RoomInference::unavailable());
+        assert_eq!(room.classification, "unavailable");
+        assert_eq!(room.contributing_nodes, 0);
+        assert_eq!(room.confidence, 0.0);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn stale_node_excluded_but_fresh_node_still_counts() {
+        let stale_node = node("absent", 0.9, STALE + 5);
+        let fresh_node = node("present_moving", 0.7, 10);
+        let room = fuse_room([&stale_node, &fresh_node], STALE);
+        assert_eq!(room.classification, "present_moving");
+        assert_eq!(room.contributing_nodes, 1, "stale node does not vote");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn empty_input_is_unavailable() {
+        let room = fuse_room(std::iter::empty(), STALE);
+        assert_eq!(room, RoomInference::unavailable());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn node_inference_round_trips_json() {
+        let n = node("present_moving", 0.75, 120);
+        let json = serde_json::to_string(&n).unwrap();
+        let back: NodeInference = serde_json::from_str(&json).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(n, back);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/lib.rs b/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/lib.rs
index 2bcb849d..f85a44f9 100644
--- a/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/lib.rs
+++ b/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/lib.rs
@@ -16,11 +16,16 @@ pub mod dataset;
 pub mod edge_registry;
 pub mod error_response;
 pub mod host_validation;
+/// ADR-294: per-node vs. fused room inference, with deterministic fusion.
+pub mod inference;
 pub mod introspection;
 pub mod matter;
 pub mod model_format;
 pub mod mqtt;
 pub mod path_safety;
+/// ADR-292: canonical source-provenance state machine (synthetic can never
+/// present as live).
+pub mod provenance;
 pub mod semantic;
 /// ADR-262 P3: the live RuField surface — turns the governed sensing cycle into
 /// signed RuField `FieldEvent`s on the additive `/api/field` + `/ws/field`
@@ -32,6 +37,8 @@ pub mod semconv;
 pub mod telemetry;
 #[allow(dead_code)]
 pub mod trainer;
+/// ADR-293: UDP data-plane bind scope decision + source IP/CIDR allowlist.
+pub mod udp_bind;
 pub mod vital_signs;
 /// ADR-270 Mist and NETGEAR telemetry providers.
 pub mod vendor_mist_netgear;
diff --git a/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/main.rs b/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/main.rs
index c972bb1f..4deb8b3d 100644
--- a/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/main.rs
+++ b/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/main.rs
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ use wifi_densepose_sensing_server::{
     dataset, embedding, error_response, graph_transformer, rufield_surface, semconv, telemetry,
     trainer,
 };
+// ADR-292 / ADR-294: canonical provenance state + per-node/room inference.
+use wifi_densepose_sensing_server::inference::{fuse_room, NodeInference, RoomInference};
+use wifi_densepose_sensing_server::provenance::SourceState;
 
 use ruvector_mincut::{DynamicMinCut, MinCutBuilder};
 use std::collections::{BTreeMap, HashMap, VecDeque};
@@ -97,6 +100,26 @@ struct Args {
     #[arg(long, default_value = "5005")]
     udp_port: u16,
 
+    /// UDP bind address for the CSI receiver (ADR-293). Defaults to
+    /// `127.0.0.1` (loopback only). Binding to a routable address (`0.0.0.0`
+    /// or a LAN IP) is an explicit operator choice and requires `--udp-allow`
+    /// or `--udp-insecure-lan`.
+    #[arg(long, default_value = "127.0.0.1", env = "RUVIEW_UDP_BIND")]
+    udp_bind: String,
+
+    /// Source IP/CIDR allowlist for inbound UDP CSI frames (comma-separated,
+    /// repeatable; env `RUVIEW_UDP_ALLOW`). When set, frames from non-matching
+    /// sources are dropped and counted. Loopback is always allowed.
+    /// Example: `--udp-allow 192.168.1.0/24,10.0.0.5`.
+    #[arg(long = "udp-allow", value_name = "IP/CIDR", env = "RUVIEW_UDP_ALLOW")]
+    udp_allow: Vec<String>,
+
+    /// Accept a routable UDP bind with no source allowlist, explicitly opting
+    /// into the LAN-spoofing risk (ADR-293). The UDP data plane is NOT
+    /// authenticated; see the crate SECURITY.md.
+    #[arg(long, env = "RUVIEW_UDP_INSECURE_LAN")]
+    udp_insecure_lan: bool,
+
     /// Path to UI static files (repo `ui/`; from `v2/` use `../ui` or rely on auto-detect)
     #[arg(long, default_value = "../ui")]
     ui_path: PathBuf,
@@ -325,6 +348,12 @@ struct SensingUpdate {
     /// Per-node feature breakdown for multi-node deployments.
     #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
     node_features: Option<Vec<PerNodeFeatureInfo>>,
+    /// ADR-294 — the explicitly-fused room aggregate over the current per-node
+    /// inferences (freshness-weighted vote). Deterministic and order-independent,
+    /// unlike the legacy last-writer `classification`; `"unavailable"` when no
+    /// fresh node backs the room rather than a frozen online value.
+    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    room_inference: Option<RoomInference>,
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
@@ -340,6 +369,12 @@ struct NodeInfo {
     /// `NodeState::latest_sync` and the iter 18 fps EMA.
     #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
     sync: Option<NodeSyncSnapshot>,
+    /// ADR-294 — this node's *own* inference (classification + confidence +
+    /// freshness). Distinct from the room aggregate; a node reports what it
+    /// sees, with no silent fallback to the room value. `None` on synthetic /
+    /// placeholder frames that carry no per-node classification.
+    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    node_inference: Option<NodeInference>,
 }
 
 /// ADR-110 iter 23 — per-node mesh-sync snapshot embedded in NodeInfo.
@@ -416,6 +451,26 @@ fn classify_vitals(motion: bool, presence: bool, presence_score: f32) -> Classif
     }
 }
 
+/// ADR-294 — the window a node may be silent before it stops contributing to
+/// the fused room aggregate (its entities go stale/unavailable rather than
+/// holding a frozen online value). Mirrors the 10 s active-node filter used to
+/// assemble the nodes array.
+const NODE_STALE_AFTER_MS: u64 = 10_000;
+
+/// Build a node's *own* [`NodeInference`] from its smoothed per-node state
+/// (ADR-294). Uses the node's own `current_motion_level` — never the room
+/// aggregate — with a confidence from its smoothed person score and freshness
+/// from its last frame time. Pure given the state snapshot + `now`.
+fn node_inference_for(n: &NodeState, now: std::time::Instant) -> NodeInference {
+    let age_ms = n
+        .last_frame_time
+        .map(|t| now.duration_since(t).as_millis() as u64);
+    let present = !matches!(n.current_motion_level.as_str(), "absent");
+    let score = n.smoothed_person_score.clamp(0.0, 1.0);
+    let confidence = if present { score } else { 1.0 - score };
+    NodeInference::new(n.current_motion_level.clone(), confidence, age_ms)
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod classify_vitals_tests {
     use super::classify_vitals;
@@ -1310,6 +1365,21 @@ impl AppStateInner {
         }
         self.source.clone()
     }
+
+    /// ADR-292 — canonical provenance state for the current source. Derived
+    /// from the freshness-gated [`effective_source`](Self::effective_source)
+    /// label so ambiguity can never collapse to "live": a synthetic source is
+    /// always `Synthetic`, an `":offline"` label is `Disconnected`, and a fresh
+    /// hardware feed is `LiveUnverified` — never `LiveVerified`, since this path
+    /// carries no attestation. `effective_source()` has already applied the
+    /// freshness gate, so a non-offline live label means a fresh frame.
+    fn source_state(&self) -> SourceState {
+        SourceState::from_source_label(
+            &self.effective_source(),
+            Some(Duration::ZERO),
+            ESP32_OFFLINE_TIMEOUT,
+        )
+    }
 }
 
 /// Number of frames retained in `frame_history` for temporal analysis.
@@ -2801,6 +2871,7 @@ async fn windows_wifi_task(state: SharedState, tick_ms: u64) {
                 amplitude: multi_ap_frame.amplitudes,
                 subcarrier_count: obs_count,
                 sync: None,  // multi-BSSID scan path — no mesh peer
+                node_inference: None, // single aggregate frame; no per-node split
             }],
             features,
             classification,
@@ -2827,6 +2898,7 @@ async fn windows_wifi_task(state: SharedState, tick_ms: u64) {
                 None
             },
             node_features: None,
+            room_inference: None,
         };
 
         // Populate persons from the sensing update (Kalman-smoothed via tracker).
@@ -2961,6 +3033,7 @@ async fn windows_wifi_fallback_tick(state: &SharedState, seq: u32) {
             amplitude: vec![signal_pct],
             subcarrier_count: 1,
             sync: None,  // synthetic-RSSI fallback path — no mesh peer
+            node_inference: None, // synthetic fallback; no per-node inference
         }],
         features,
         classification,
@@ -2987,6 +3060,7 @@ async fn windows_wifi_fallback_tick(state: &SharedState, seq: u32) {
             None
         },
         node_features: None,
+        room_inference: None,
     };
 
     let raw_persons = derive_pose_from_sensing(&update);
@@ -4599,6 +4673,9 @@ async fn health_ready(State(state): State<SharedState>) -> Json<serde_json::Valu
     Json(serde_json::json!({
         "status": "ready",
         "source": s.effective_source(),
+        // ADR-292 — canonical provenance state so a status-endpoint consumer
+        // never has to infer "live" from the absence of a signal (issue #1526).
+        "source_state": s.source_state().as_str(),
         // Governed trust-path state (ADR-135..146; review finding 1b): latest
         // witness + privacy class + recalibration flag, and the engine error
         // audit — previously write-only on AppState, now readable here.
@@ -5702,8 +5779,13 @@ async fn info_page() -> Html<String> {
 
 // ── UDP receiver task ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
-async fn udp_receiver_task(state: SharedState, udp_port: u16) {
-    let addr = format!("0.0.0.0:{udp_port}");
+async fn udp_receiver_task(
+    state: SharedState,
+    bind_ip: std::net::IpAddr,
+    udp_port: u16,
+    allowlist: std::sync::Arc<wifi_densepose_sensing_server::udp_bind::UdpSourceAllowlist>,
+) {
+    let addr = format!("{bind_ip}:{udp_port}");
     let socket = match UdpSocket::bind(&addr).await {
         Ok(s) => {
             info!("UDP listening on {addr} for ESP32, MediaTek, Qualcomm CSI, and RTL8720F radar frames");
@@ -5719,6 +5801,15 @@ async fn udp_receiver_task(state: SharedState, udp_port: u16) {
     loop {
         match socket.recv_from(&mut buf).await {
             Ok((len, src)) => {
+                // ADR-293: drop frames from sources outside the allowlist
+                // (loopback is always admitted). Counted for observability.
+                if !allowlist.admit(src.ip()) {
+                    debug!(
+                        "Dropped UDP frame from disallowed source {src} (allowlist active; total dropped={})",
+                        allowlist.dropped()
+                    );
+                    continue;
+                }
                 if len > 0 && buf[0] == b'{' {
                     match serde_json::from_slice::<wifi_densepose_hardware::vendor_rf::VendorRfEvent>(&buf[..len])
                         .map_err(|error| error.to_string())
@@ -5950,9 +6041,19 @@ async fn udp_receiver_task(state: SharedState, udp_port: u16) {
                             // Vitals-only path; still expose the sync snapshot
                             // if the node also speaks ESP-NOW.
                             sync: n.sync_snapshot(),
+                            // ADR-294 — each node carries its own inference.
+                            node_inference: Some(node_inference_for(n, now)),
                         })
                         .collect();
 
+                    // ADR-294 — explicit, deterministic room aggregate over the
+                    // per-node inferences (freshness-weighted vote). Not the
+                    // latest-writer classification (issue #1555).
+                    let room_inference = fuse_room(
+                        active_nodes.iter().filter_map(|ni| ni.node_inference.as_ref()),
+                        NODE_STALE_AFTER_MS,
+                    );
+
                     let features = FeatureInfo {
                         mean_rssi: vitals.rssi as f64,
                         variance: vitals.motion_energy as f64,
@@ -6041,6 +6142,7 @@ async fn udp_receiver_task(state: SharedState, udp_port: u16) {
                         // can implement model-wake gating without round-
                         // tripping back to the server.
                         node_features: build_node_features(&s.node_states, now),
+                        room_inference: Some(room_inference),
                     };
 
                     let raw_persons = derive_pose_from_sensing(&update);
@@ -6439,9 +6541,18 @@ async fn udp_receiver_task(state: SharedState, udp_port: u16) {
                             },
                             // ADR-110 iter 23 / iter 30 — single source of truth.
                             sync: n.sync_snapshot(),
+                            // ADR-294 — each node carries its own inference.
+                            node_inference: Some(node_inference_for(n, now)),
                         })
                         .collect();
 
+                    // ADR-294 — explicit deterministic room aggregate over the
+                    // per-node inferences (not last-writer; issue #1555).
+                    let room_inference = fuse_room(
+                        active_nodes.iter().filter_map(|ni| ni.node_inference.as_ref()),
+                        NODE_STALE_AFTER_MS,
+                    );
+
                     let mut update = SensingUpdate {
                         msg_type: "sensing_update".to_string(),
                         timestamp: chrono::Utc::now().timestamp_millis() as f64 / 1000.0,
@@ -6478,6 +6589,7 @@ async fn udp_receiver_task(state: SharedState, udp_port: u16) {
                         // can implement model-wake gating without round-
                         // tripping back to the server.
                         node_features: build_node_features(&s.node_states, now),
+                        room_inference: Some(room_inference),
                     };
 
                     let raw_persons = derive_pose_from_sensing(&update);
@@ -6699,6 +6811,7 @@ async fn simulated_data_task(state: SharedState, tick_ms: u64) {
                 amplitude: frame_amplitudes,
                 subcarrier_count: frame_n_sub as usize,
                 sync: None,  // simulated frame path — no mesh peer
+                node_inference: None, // simulated frame; source is synthetic
             }],
             features: features.clone(),
             classification,
@@ -6735,6 +6848,7 @@ async fn simulated_data_task(state: SharedState, tick_ms: u64) {
                 None
             },
             node_features: None,
+            room_inference: None,
         };
 
         // Populate persons from the sensing update (Kalman-smoothed via tracker).
@@ -7720,7 +7834,7 @@ async fn main() {
     info!("WiFi-DensePose Sensing Server (Rust + Axum + RuVector)");
     info!("  HTTP:      http://localhost:{}", args.http_port);
     info!("  WebSocket: ws://localhost:{}/ws/sensing", args.ws_port);
-    info!("  UDP:       0.0.0.0:{} (ESP32 CSI)", args.udp_port);
+    info!("  UDP:       {}:{} (ESP32 CSI)", args.udp_bind, args.udp_port);
     info!("  UI path:   {}", args.ui_path.display());
     info!("  Source:    {}", args.source);
 
@@ -8098,7 +8212,48 @@ async fn main() {
     // promoted — see `simulated_data_task`). Explicit `--source simulated` has
     // `bind_udp = false`, so it serves simulated data only, with no live binding.
     if plan.bind_udp {
-        tokio::spawn(udp_receiver_task(state.clone(), args.udp_port));
+        // ADR-293: resolve the UDP bind scope + source allowlist and fail closed
+        // on an unguarded routable bind, mirroring the OAuth boot refusal below.
+        use wifi_densepose_sensing_server::udp_bind;
+        let udp_bind_ip: std::net::IpAddr = match args.udp_bind.parse() {
+            Ok(ip) => ip,
+            Err(_) => {
+                error!(
+                    "Invalid --udp-bind '{}' (use 127.0.0.1 or 0.0.0.0)",
+                    args.udp_bind
+                );
+                std::process::exit(1);
+            }
+        };
+        let udp_allowlist = match udp_bind::UdpSourceAllowlist::parse(args.udp_allow.iter()) {
+            Ok(a) => std::sync::Arc::new(a),
+            Err(e) => {
+                error!("Invalid --udp-allow: {e}");
+                std::process::exit(1);
+            }
+        };
+        match udp_bind::decide_udp_bind(
+            udp_bind_ip,
+            udp_allowlist.is_active(),
+            args.udp_insecure_lan,
+        ) {
+            Ok(decision) => {
+                info!(
+                    "UDP data plane security: {}",
+                    udp_bind::startup_summary(decision, udp_bind_ip, args.udp_port, &udp_allowlist)
+                );
+            }
+            Err(e) => {
+                error!("{e}");
+                std::process::exit(1);
+            }
+        }
+        tokio::spawn(udp_receiver_task(
+            state.clone(),
+            udp_bind_ip,
+            args.udp_port,
+            udp_allowlist,
+        ));
         tokio::spawn(broadcast_tick_task(state.clone(), args.tick_ms));
     }
     if plan.run_wifi {
@@ -8526,6 +8681,7 @@ mod node_sync_snapshot_serialization_tests {
             amplitude: vec![],
             subcarrier_count: 0,
             sync,
+            node_inference: None,
         }
     }
 
@@ -9247,6 +9403,7 @@ mod observatory_persons_field_position_tests {
             persons: None,
             estimated_persons: Some(1),
             node_features: None,
+            room_inference: None,
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/mqtt/publisher.rs b/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/mqtt/publisher.rs
index 6c3e3285..f696299f 100644
--- a/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/mqtt/publisher.rs
+++ b/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/mqtt/publisher.rs
@@ -332,15 +332,17 @@ async fn publish_snapshot(
         }
     }
 
-    // Numeric rate-limited entities.
+    // Numeric rate-limited entities. Rate limiting is per (node, entity)
+    // (ADR-294, issue #1541) so nodes never starve one another.
+    let node = snap.node_id.as_str();
     for (entity, allowed) in [
-        (EntityKind::PersonCount, rl.allow(EntityKind::PersonCount, elapsed, &cfg.rates)),
-        (EntityKind::HeartRate, !cfg.privacy_mode && rl.allow(EntityKind::HeartRate, elapsed, &cfg.rates)),
-        (EntityKind::BreathingRate, !cfg.privacy_mode && rl.allow(EntityKind::BreathingRate, elapsed, &cfg.rates)),
-        (EntityKind::MotionLevel, rl.allow(EntityKind::MotionLevel, elapsed, &cfg.rates)),
-        (EntityKind::MotionEnergy, rl.allow(EntityKind::MotionEnergy, elapsed, &cfg.rates)),
-        (EntityKind::PresenceScore, rl.allow(EntityKind::PresenceScore, elapsed, &cfg.rates)),
-        (EntityKind::Rssi, rl.allow(EntityKind::Rssi, elapsed, &cfg.rates)),
+        (EntityKind::PersonCount, rl.allow(node, EntityKind::PersonCount, elapsed, &cfg.rates)),
+        (EntityKind::HeartRate, !cfg.privacy_mode && rl.allow(node, EntityKind::HeartRate, elapsed, &cfg.rates)),
+        (EntityKind::BreathingRate, !cfg.privacy_mode && rl.allow(node, EntityKind::BreathingRate, elapsed, &cfg.rates)),
+        (EntityKind::MotionLevel, rl.allow(node, EntityKind::MotionLevel, elapsed, &cfg.rates)),
+        (EntityKind::MotionEnergy, rl.allow(node, EntityKind::MotionEnergy, elapsed, &cfg.rates)),
+        (EntityKind::PresenceScore, rl.allow(node, EntityKind::PresenceScore, elapsed, &cfg.rates)),
+        (EntityKind::Rssi, rl.allow(node, EntityKind::Rssi, elapsed, &cfg.rates)),
     ] {
         if !allowed {
             continue;
diff --git a/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/mqtt/state.rs b/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/mqtt/state.rs
index fd3a02a7..8a991e67 100644
--- a/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/mqtt/state.rs
+++ b/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/mqtt/state.rs
@@ -58,24 +58,38 @@ impl StateMessage {
     }
 }
 
-/// Sample-rate-limit decisions, per entity. Tracks the last-emitted
-/// instant per entity and gates further emissions accordingly. Time is
-/// supplied by the caller so the limiter is testable without a clock.
+/// Sample-rate-limit decisions, per `(node, entity)`. Tracks the
+/// last-emitted instant for each entity *on each node* and gates further
+/// emissions accordingly. Time is supplied by the caller so the limiter is
+/// testable without a clock.
+///
+/// ADR-294 (issue #1541): the key is `(NodeId, EntityKind)`, not `EntityKind`
+/// alone. With an entity-only key one node consumed the numeric publish slot
+/// and every other node was suppressed until the interval expired — while
+/// availability still reported them online. Keying by node keeps each node's
+/// per-entity budget independent so nodes no longer starve one another.
 #[derive(Debug, Default)]
 pub struct RateLimiter {
-    last: HashMap<EntityKind, Duration>,
+    last: HashMap<(String, EntityKind), Duration>,
 }
 
 impl RateLimiter {
-    /// Build a fresh limiter with no per-entity history.
+    /// Build a fresh limiter with no per-`(node, entity)` history.
     pub fn new() -> Self {
         Self { last: HashMap::new() }
     }
 
-    /// Decide whether a sample for `entity` is allowed to publish at
-    /// `now`, given the configured `rates`. Returns true to publish
-    /// (and updates last-emitted state); false to drop.
-    pub fn allow(&mut self, entity: EntityKind, now: Duration, rates: &PublishRates) -> bool {
+    /// Decide whether a sample for `entity` on node `node_id` is allowed to
+    /// publish at `now`, given the configured `rates`. Returns true to publish
+    /// (and updates last-emitted state); false to drop. Each node's budget for
+    /// an entity is independent of every other node's (ADR-294).
+    pub fn allow(
+        &mut self,
+        node_id: &str,
+        entity: EntityKind,
+        now: Duration,
+        rates: &PublishRates,
+    ) -> bool {
         let min_gap = match rate_hz_for(entity, rates) {
             // Zero / negative Hz → emit only on change (caller path).
             // Here we treat it as "always allow" because the caller is
@@ -83,13 +97,15 @@ impl RateLimiter {
             rate if rate <= 0.0 => return true,
             rate => Duration::from_secs_f64(1.0 / rate),
         };
-        match self.last.get(&entity) {
-            Some(&prev) if now.saturating_sub(prev) < min_gap => false,
-            _ => {
-                self.last.insert(entity, now);
-                true
+        // Borrow the key without allocating on the hot lookup path; only
+        // allocate the owned `String` when inserting a new node/entity slot.
+        if let Some(&prev) = self.last.get(&(node_id.to_string(), entity)) {
+            if now.saturating_sub(prev) < min_gap {
+                return false;
             }
         }
+        self.last.insert((node_id.to_string(), entity), now);
+        true
     }
 
     /// Reset all per-entity history. Used after a reconnect so the first
@@ -352,10 +368,12 @@ mod tests {
 
     // ─── Rate limiter ────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
+    const NODE: &str = "node-a";
+
     #[test]
     fn rate_limiter_first_sample_always_passes() {
         let mut rl = RateLimiter::new();
-        assert!(rl.allow(EntityKind::HeartRate, Duration::ZERO, &rates()));
+        assert!(rl.allow(NODE, EntityKind::HeartRate, Duration::ZERO, &rates()));
     }
 
     #[test]
@@ -363,27 +381,27 @@ mod tests {
         let mut rl = RateLimiter::new();
         let r = rates();
         // 0.2 Hz → 5 s gap.
-        assert!(rl.allow(EntityKind::HeartRate, Duration::from_secs(0), &r));
-        assert!(!rl.allow(EntityKind::HeartRate, Duration::from_secs(1), &r));
-        assert!(!rl.allow(EntityKind::HeartRate, Duration::from_secs(4), &r));
+        assert!(rl.allow(NODE, EntityKind::HeartRate, Duration::from_secs(0), &r));
+        assert!(!rl.allow(NODE, EntityKind::HeartRate, Duration::from_secs(1), &r));
+        assert!(!rl.allow(NODE, EntityKind::HeartRate, Duration::from_secs(4), &r));
     }
 
     #[test]
     fn rate_limiter_allows_after_gap() {
         let mut rl = RateLimiter::new();
         let r = rates();
-        assert!(rl.allow(EntityKind::HeartRate, Duration::from_secs(0), &r));
+        assert!(rl.allow(NODE, EntityKind::HeartRate, Duration::from_secs(0), &r));
         // 5 s gap met → allow.
-        assert!(rl.allow(EntityKind::HeartRate, Duration::from_secs(5), &r));
+        assert!(rl.allow(NODE, EntityKind::HeartRate, Duration::from_secs(5), &r));
     }
 
     #[test]
     fn rate_limiter_per_entity_independent() {
         let mut rl = RateLimiter::new();
         let r = rates();
-        assert!(rl.allow(EntityKind::HeartRate, Duration::from_secs(0), &r));
+        assert!(rl.allow(NODE, EntityKind::HeartRate, Duration::from_secs(0), &r));
         // Different entity, same instant → independent budget.
-        assert!(rl.allow(EntityKind::MotionLevel, Duration::from_secs(0), &r));
+        assert!(rl.allow(NODE, EntityKind::MotionLevel, Duration::from_secs(0), &r));
     }
 
     #[test]
@@ -392,7 +410,7 @@ mod tests {
         let r = rates();
         // Presence is change-only → rate=0 → unlimited; caller does change detection.
         for s in 0..3 {
-            assert!(rl.allow(EntityKind::Presence, Duration::from_secs(s), &r));
+            assert!(rl.allow(NODE, EntityKind::Presence, Duration::from_secs(s), &r));
         }
     }
 
@@ -400,11 +418,27 @@ mod tests {
     fn rate_limiter_reset_re_enables_immediate_publish() {
         let mut rl = RateLimiter::new();
         let r = rates();
-        assert!(rl.allow(EntityKind::HeartRate, Duration::from_secs(0), &r));
-        assert!(!rl.allow(EntityKind::HeartRate, Duration::from_secs(1), &r));
+        assert!(rl.allow(NODE, EntityKind::HeartRate, Duration::from_secs(0), &r));
+        assert!(!rl.allow(NODE, EntityKind::HeartRate, Duration::from_secs(1), &r));
         rl.reset();
         // Post-reset: first sample passes.
-        assert!(rl.allow(EntityKind::HeartRate, Duration::from_secs(1), &r));
+        assert!(rl.allow(NODE, EntityKind::HeartRate, Duration::from_secs(1), &r));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn rate_limiter_nodes_do_not_starve_each_other() {
+        // ADR-294 (issue #1541): with an entity-only key, node-a consuming the
+        // slot suppressed node-b. Keyed by (node, entity), both publish.
+        let mut rl = RateLimiter::new();
+        let r = rates();
+        assert!(rl.allow("node-a", EntityKind::PersonCount, Duration::from_secs(0), &r));
+        assert!(
+            rl.allow("node-b", EntityKind::PersonCount, Duration::from_secs(0), &r),
+            "second node must not be starved by the first"
+        );
+        // Each node still rate-limits itself.
+        assert!(!rl.allow("node-a", EntityKind::PersonCount, Duration::from_millis(100), &r));
+        assert!(!rl.allow("node-b", EntityKind::PersonCount, Duration::from_millis(100), &r));
     }
 
     // ─── Boolean / binary_sensor encoder ─────────────────────────────
diff --git a/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/provenance.rs b/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/provenance.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ba0f0257
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/provenance.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,295 @@
+//! ADR-292 — canonical source-provenance state machine.
+//!
+//! Source state used to be a boolean (`live` vs. not), so any ambiguous
+//! condition — an unauthenticated status-endpoint error, a simulator that has
+//! not yet produced a frame — collapsed to "live". Two release-path defects
+//! (issues #1526, #1557) both trace to that collapse.
+//!
+//! This module defines one canonical, mutually-exclusive [`SourceState`] and a
+//! **pure** transition function of `(last_frame_age, auth_status, source_kind)`.
+//! It touches no clock and no socket, so every rule below is unit-testable:
+//!
+//! - `Unknown` is not a state. An ambiguous condition resolves to
+//!   `LiveUnverified`, `Stale`, or `Disconnected` — never `LiveVerified`.
+//! - A status-endpoint error resolves to `Disconnected`/`LiveUnverified`,
+//!   never live-verified (issue #1526).
+//! - A `Synthetic` source can never transition to any `Live*` state without
+//!   being reconstructed as a live source *and* presenting a verified frame
+//!   (issue #1557).
+//! - `Synthetic` is watermarked in every export ([`SourceState::export_watermark`]).
+
+use std::time::Duration;
+
+/// Where a source's data originates.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub enum SourceKind {
+    /// Generated data — the simulator, or replay of synthetic fixtures.
+    Synthetic,
+    /// A real external capture source (hardware or a network vendor feed).
+    Live,
+}
+
+/// Result of authenticating / attesting the source, e.g. from a status-endpoint
+/// probe. Deliberately distinguishes "not confirmed yet" from "the probe itself
+/// errored" so an authorization failure can never masquerade as verified.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub enum AuthStatus {
+    /// Source authenticated and attested.
+    Verified,
+    /// Reachable, but provenance is not yet confirmed.
+    Unverified,
+    /// The auth / status probe itself failed (401/403, unreachable, malformed).
+    Error,
+    /// No information available yet.
+    Unknown,
+}
+
+/// Canonical, mutually-exclusive source state (ADR-292). There is intentionally
+/// no `Unknown` / `Live` boolean — every ambiguous input maps to one of these.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub enum SourceState {
+    /// Generated data. Always watermarked; never presented as real.
+    Synthetic,
+    /// Fresh frames from an authenticated, attested source.
+    LiveVerified,
+    /// Fresh frames arriving, but provenance not yet confirmed.
+    LiveUnverified,
+    /// Last frame is older than the freshness window.
+    Stale,
+    /// No source / no frame.
+    Disconnected,
+}
+
+impl SourceState {
+    /// Pure transition. Resolves the canonical state from the only three inputs
+    /// that may influence it — no clock, no socket.
+    ///
+    /// * `last_frame_age` — age of the most recent frame; `None` when no frame
+    ///   has ever been observed.
+    /// * `auth` — outcome of the most recent auth/attestation probe.
+    /// * `kind` — whether the source is synthetic or a live capture.
+    /// * `freshness_window` — maximum age a frame may have and still count as
+    ///   fresh.
+    pub fn resolve(
+        last_frame_age: Option<Duration>,
+        auth: AuthStatus,
+        kind: SourceKind,
+        freshness_window: Duration,
+    ) -> SourceState {
+        // A synthetic source is *always* synthetic. It can only become live by
+        // being reconstructed as `SourceKind::Live` presenting a verified frame,
+        // never by a transition here (ADR-292, issue #1557).
+        if kind == SourceKind::Synthetic {
+            return SourceState::Synthetic;
+        }
+
+        match last_frame_age {
+            // No frame ever ⇒ no source. An auth error with no frame is
+            // Disconnected, never live (issue #1526).
+            None => SourceState::Disconnected,
+            // A frame exists but is older than the freshness window.
+            Some(age) if age > freshness_window => SourceState::Stale,
+            // A fresh frame is present. Only an explicitly `Verified` auth
+            // status may promote to `LiveVerified`; `Unknown` / `Error` /
+            // `Unverified` can never be verified-live (issue #1526).
+            Some(_) => match auth {
+                AuthStatus::Verified => SourceState::LiveVerified,
+                AuthStatus::Unverified | AuthStatus::Error | AuthStatus::Unknown => {
+                    SourceState::LiveUnverified
+                }
+            },
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Compatibility accessor for callers migrating off a boolean source flag.
+    /// True only for the two states that represent real, arriving frames.
+    pub fn is_live(self) -> bool {
+        matches!(self, SourceState::LiveVerified | SourceState::LiveUnverified)
+    }
+
+    /// True when this state must be watermarked as synthetic in every view and
+    /// export (ADR-292).
+    pub fn is_synthetic(self) -> bool {
+        matches!(self, SourceState::Synthetic)
+    }
+
+    /// Short, stable, machine-readable label for wire/JSON surfaces.
+    pub fn as_str(self) -> &'static str {
+        match self {
+            SourceState::Synthetic => "synthetic",
+            SourceState::LiveVerified => "live_verified",
+            SourceState::LiveUnverified => "live_unverified",
+            SourceState::Stale => "stale",
+            SourceState::Disconnected => "disconnected",
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Watermark that must accompany a synthetic export so generated data can
+    /// never be mistaken for a real capture. `None` for non-synthetic states.
+    pub fn export_watermark(self) -> Option<&'static str> {
+        if self.is_synthetic() {
+            Some("SYNTHETIC")
+        } else {
+            None
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Adapter that maps this server's free-form `source` label plus freshness
+    /// into a canonical [`SourceState`], so the existing string surface can
+    /// report the honest enum instead of a boolean collapse.
+    ///
+    /// Hardware / vendor feeds resolve to `LiveUnverified` — frames arrive but
+    /// provenance is not attested on this path — never `LiveVerified`. An
+    /// `":offline"`-suffixed label (issue #1004) resolves to `Disconnected`.
+    pub fn from_source_label(
+        source: &str,
+        last_frame_age: Option<Duration>,
+        freshness_window: Duration,
+    ) -> SourceState {
+        if source.ends_with(":offline") {
+            return SourceState::Disconnected;
+        }
+        let kind = match source {
+            "simulated" | "simulate" | "synthetic" | "test" => SourceKind::Synthetic,
+            _ => SourceKind::Live,
+        };
+        // This path carries no attestation, so the best a live feed earns is
+        // `Unverified` — the honest label. `resolve` still short-circuits a
+        // synthetic kind to `Synthetic` regardless of frame age.
+        SourceState::resolve(last_frame_age, AuthStatus::Unverified, kind, freshness_window)
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    const WINDOW: Duration = Duration::from_secs(5);
+    fn fresh() -> Option<Duration> {
+        Some(Duration::from_millis(100))
+    }
+    fn old() -> Option<Duration> {
+        Some(WINDOW + Duration::from_secs(1))
+    }
+
+    // ── Core honesty rules ───────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    #[test]
+    fn verified_fresh_live_source_is_live_verified() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            SourceState::resolve(fresh(), AuthStatus::Verified, SourceKind::Live, WINDOW),
+            SourceState::LiveVerified
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn auth_error_never_resolves_to_live_verified() {
+        // Fresh frame but the status probe errored ⇒ unverified, not verified.
+        assert_eq!(
+            SourceState::resolve(fresh(), AuthStatus::Error, SourceKind::Live, WINDOW),
+            SourceState::LiveUnverified
+        );
+        // No frame and an auth error ⇒ Disconnected, never live (issue #1526).
+        assert_eq!(
+            SourceState::resolve(None, AuthStatus::Error, SourceKind::Live, WINDOW),
+            SourceState::Disconnected
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn unknown_never_resolves_to_live_verified() {
+        let s = SourceState::resolve(fresh(), AuthStatus::Unknown, SourceKind::Live, WINDOW);
+        assert_eq!(s, SourceState::LiveUnverified);
+        assert_ne!(s, SourceState::LiveVerified);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn synthetic_never_becomes_live_even_with_verified_fresh_frame() {
+        // Issue #1557: the simulator constructs Synthetic and cannot transition
+        // to any Live* state without being reconstructed as a live source.
+        assert_eq!(
+            SourceState::resolve(fresh(), AuthStatus::Verified, SourceKind::Synthetic, WINDOW),
+            SourceState::Synthetic
+        );
+        assert!(!SourceState::resolve(fresh(), AuthStatus::Verified, SourceKind::Synthetic, WINDOW)
+            .is_live());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn freshness_expiry_is_stale() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            SourceState::resolve(old(), AuthStatus::Verified, SourceKind::Live, WINDOW),
+            SourceState::Stale
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn no_frame_is_disconnected() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            SourceState::resolve(None, AuthStatus::Verified, SourceKind::Live, WINDOW),
+            SourceState::Disconnected
+        );
+    }
+
+    // ── Watermark / compat accessors ─────────────────────────────────────
+
+    #[test]
+    fn synthetic_export_is_watermarked() {
+        assert_eq!(SourceState::Synthetic.export_watermark(), Some("SYNTHETIC"));
+        assert!(SourceState::Synthetic.is_synthetic());
+        assert_eq!(SourceState::LiveVerified.export_watermark(), None);
+        assert_eq!(SourceState::Disconnected.export_watermark(), None);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn is_live_only_for_live_states() {
+        assert!(SourceState::LiveVerified.is_live());
+        assert!(SourceState::LiveUnverified.is_live());
+        assert!(!SourceState::Synthetic.is_live());
+        assert!(!SourceState::Stale.is_live());
+        assert!(!SourceState::Disconnected.is_live());
+    }
+
+    // ── Label adapter ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    #[test]
+    fn simulated_label_is_synthetic_regardless_of_frames() {
+        // Even with fresh frames arriving, a simulated source stays synthetic.
+        let s = SourceState::from_source_label("simulated", fresh(), WINDOW);
+        assert_eq!(s, SourceState::Synthetic);
+        assert!(!s.is_live());
+        assert_eq!(SourceState::from_source_label("simulate", None, WINDOW), SourceState::Synthetic);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn hardware_label_is_live_unverified_never_verified() {
+        let s = SourceState::from_source_label("esp32", fresh(), WINDOW);
+        assert_eq!(s, SourceState::LiveUnverified);
+        assert_ne!(s, SourceState::LiveVerified);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn offline_label_is_disconnected() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            SourceState::from_source_label("esp32:offline", fresh(), WINDOW),
+            SourceState::Disconnected
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn stale_hardware_label_is_stale() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            SourceState::from_source_label("wifi:home", old(), WINDOW),
+            SourceState::Stale
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn as_str_is_stable() {
+        assert_eq!(SourceState::Synthetic.as_str(), "synthetic");
+        assert_eq!(SourceState::LiveVerified.as_str(), "live_verified");
+        assert_eq!(SourceState::LiveUnverified.as_str(), "live_unverified");
+        assert_eq!(SourceState::Stale.as_str(), "stale");
+        assert_eq!(SourceState::Disconnected.as_str(), "disconnected");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/udp_bind.rs b/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-sensing-server/src/udp_bind.rs
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+//! ADR-293: sensor data-plane bind hardening — UDP bind scope + source allowlist.
+//!
+//! The CSI UDP receiver historically bound `0.0.0.0` unconditionally, with no
+//! equivalent of the HTTP `--bind-addr` flag, no source allowlist, and no
+//! message authentication. Any host that could reach the port could inject a
+//! valid-shaped frame and influence presence/vital/automation outputs.
+//!
+//! This module supplies the *step one* controls: a pure, socket-free bind
+//! decision (loopback default, fail-closed on an unguarded routable bind,
+//! mirroring the HTTP/OAuth refusal pattern) and a dependency-free source
+//! IP/CIDR allowlist with a drop counter.
+//!
+//! # Threat model & residual risk
+//!
+//! An IP/CIDR allowlist restricts *which addresses* may deliver frames; it does
+//! **not** authenticate the sender. On a trusted LAN an attacker who can spoof a
+//! source address, or who controls an allowlisted host, can still inject frames.
+//! The safe default is therefore loopback-only. Binding to a routable address
+//! is an explicit operator choice and requires either `--udp-allow` (restrict
+//! sources) or `--udp-insecure-lan` (accept the residual risk explicitly).
+//!
+//! **Deferred to a follow-up ADR (step two):** per-device provisioned keys,
+//! MAC/AEAD, device identifiers, monotonic sequence numbers, a freshness
+//! window, and replay rejection. Until those land the UDP data plane is NOT
+//! authenticated. See the crate `SECURITY.md`.
+
+use std::net::IpAddr;
+use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicU64, Ordering};
+
+/// Upper bound on parsed allowlist entries. The list comes from operator CLI
+/// input, but we cap it anyway to keep allocation bounded at the boundary.
+const MAX_ENTRIES: usize = 4096;
+
+/// Outcome of evaluating the requested UDP bind scope against the allowlist and
+/// override flags. Pure and socket-free so the decision can be unit-tested
+/// without binding a real socket.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub enum UdpBindDecision {
+    /// Bind is loopback-only (`127.0.0.1` / `::1`); not reachable off-host.
+    Loopback,
+    /// Bind is routable and a source allowlist is enforced.
+    RoutableAllowlisted,
+    /// Bind is routable with no allowlist, explicitly accepted via
+    /// `--udp-insecure-lan`.
+    RoutableInsecure,
+}
+
+/// Decide whether the requested UDP bind is permitted.
+///
+/// Fail-closed, mirroring the HTTP/OAuth boot refusals: a routable bind with no
+/// source allowlist is rejected unless the operator passes the explicit
+/// `--udp-insecure-lan` override. Loopback is always fine.
+pub fn decide_udp_bind(
+    bind: IpAddr,
+    has_allowlist: bool,
+    insecure_lan: bool,
+) -> Result<UdpBindDecision, String> {
+    if bind.is_loopback() {
+        return Ok(UdpBindDecision::Loopback);
+    }
+    if has_allowlist {
+        return Ok(UdpBindDecision::RoutableAllowlisted);
+    }
+    if insecure_lan {
+        return Ok(UdpBindDecision::RoutableInsecure);
+    }
+    Err(format!(
+        "Refusing to bind the UDP CSI receiver to routable address {bind} with no \
+         source allowlist. Pass --udp-allow <IP/CIDR,...> to restrict sources, or \
+         --udp-insecure-lan to accept the LAN-spoofing risk explicitly. The default \
+         is loopback (127.0.0.1); see the crate SECURITY.md (ADR-293)."
+    ))
+}
+
+/// One-line startup security summary describing the resolved bind scope and
+/// allowlist state, for the boot log.
+pub fn startup_summary(
+    decision: UdpBindDecision,
+    bind: IpAddr,
+    port: u16,
+    allowlist: &UdpSourceAllowlist,
+) -> String {
+    let scope = match decision {
+        UdpBindDecision::Loopback => "loopback-only (not reachable off-host)",
+        UdpBindDecision::RoutableAllowlisted => "ROUTABLE, source allowlist enforced",
+        UdpBindDecision::RoutableInsecure => {
+            "ROUTABLE, NO allowlist (--udp-insecure-lan; data plane is UNAUTHENTICATED)"
+        }
+    };
+    if allowlist.is_active() {
+        format!(
+            "bind {bind}:{port} — {scope}; allowlist active ({} entr{}), loopback always allowed",
+            allowlist.len(),
+            if allowlist.len() == 1 { "y" } else { "ies" }
+        )
+    } else {
+        format!("bind {bind}:{port} — {scope}; no source allowlist")
+    }
+}
+
+/// A single parsed IP or CIDR allowlist entry.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
+struct CidrEntry {
+    network: IpAddr,
+    prefix_len: u8,
+}
+
+impl CidrEntry {
+    /// Whether `ip` falls inside this network. Family mismatches never match.
+    fn contains(&self, ip: IpAddr) -> bool {
+        match (self.network, ip) {
+            (IpAddr::V4(net), IpAddr::V4(addr)) => {
+                let mask = v4_mask(self.prefix_len);
+                (u32::from(net) & mask) == (u32::from(addr) & mask)
+            }
+            (IpAddr::V6(net), IpAddr::V6(addr)) => {
+                let mask = v6_mask(self.prefix_len);
+                (u128::from(net) & mask) == (u128::from(addr) & mask)
+            }
+            _ => false,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+fn v4_mask(prefix: u8) -> u32 {
+    match prefix {
+        0 => 0,
+        p if p >= 32 => u32::MAX,
+        p => u32::MAX << (32 - p),
+    }
+}
+
+fn v6_mask(prefix: u8) -> u128 {
+    match prefix {
+        0 => 0,
+        p if p >= 128 => u128::MAX,
+        p => u128::MAX << (128 - p),
+    }
+}
+
+/// Parse one `IP` or `IP/prefix` entry. Never panics on malformed input.
+fn parse_entry(raw: &str) -> Result<CidrEntry, String> {
+    let s = raw.trim();
+    if let Some((ip_str, pfx_str)) = s.split_once('/') {
+        let ip: IpAddr = ip_str
+            .trim()
+            .parse()
+            .map_err(|_| format!("invalid IP address in allowlist entry '{s}'"))?;
+        let max = if ip.is_ipv4() { 32u8 } else { 128u8 };
+        let pfx: u8 = pfx_str
+            .trim()
+            .parse()
+            .map_err(|_| format!("invalid prefix length in allowlist entry '{s}'"))?;
+        if pfx > max {
+            return Err(format!(
+                "prefix /{pfx} exceeds maximum /{max} for {ip} in allowlist entry '{s}'"
+            ));
+        }
+        Ok(CidrEntry {
+            network: ip,
+            prefix_len: pfx,
+        })
+    } else {
+        let ip: IpAddr = s
+            .parse()
+            .map_err(|_| format!("invalid IP address in allowlist entry '{s}'"))?;
+        let prefix_len = if ip.is_ipv4() { 32 } else { 128 };
+        Ok(CidrEntry {
+            network: ip,
+            prefix_len,
+        })
+    }
+}
+
+/// Source IP/CIDR allowlist for inbound UDP CSI frames.
+///
+/// When no entries are configured the allowlist is *inactive* and accepts every
+/// source (the bind decision, not this filter, gates an unguarded routable
+/// bind). When entries are present, only loopback and matching sources are
+/// allowed; everything else is dropped and counted.
+#[derive(Debug, Default)]
+pub struct UdpSourceAllowlist {
+    entries: Vec<CidrEntry>,
+    dropped: AtomicU64,
+}
+
+impl UdpSourceAllowlist {
+    /// Parse an allowlist from CLI/env specs. Each item may itself be a
+    /// comma-separated list; whitespace and empty items are ignored. Returns an
+    /// error on the first malformed entry rather than silently dropping it.
+    pub fn parse<I, S>(specs: I) -> Result<Self, String>
+    where
+        I: IntoIterator<Item = S>,
+        S: AsRef<str>,
+    {
+        let mut entries: Vec<CidrEntry> = Vec::new();
+        for spec in specs {
+            for part in spec.as_ref().split(',') {
+                let part = part.trim();
+                if part.is_empty() {
+                    continue;
+                }
+                if entries.len() >= MAX_ENTRIES {
+                    return Err(format!(
+                        "too many allowlist entries (limit {MAX_ENTRIES})"
+                    ));
+                }
+                entries.push(parse_entry(part)?);
+            }
+        }
+        Ok(Self {
+            entries,
+            dropped: AtomicU64::new(0),
+        })
+    }
+
+    /// Whether any allowlist entries are configured (i.e. filtering is on).
+    pub fn is_active(&self) -> bool {
+        !self.entries.is_empty()
+    }
+
+    /// Number of configured entries.
+    pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
+        self.entries.len()
+    }
+
+    /// Whether the allowlist has no configured entries.
+    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
+        self.entries.is_empty()
+    }
+
+    /// Whether `src` is permitted. Loopback is always allowed; an inactive
+    /// allowlist accepts everything. Does not touch the drop counter.
+    pub fn is_allowed(&self, src: IpAddr) -> bool {
+        if src.is_loopback() {
+            return true;
+        }
+        if self.entries.is_empty() {
+            return true;
+        }
+        self.entries.iter().any(|e| e.contains(src))
+    }
+
+    /// Like [`is_allowed`](Self::is_allowed) but records a drop when the source
+    /// is rejected. Use this on the hot receive path.
+    pub fn admit(&self, src: IpAddr) -> bool {
+        let ok = self.is_allowed(src);
+        if !ok {
+            self.dropped.fetch_add(1, Ordering::Relaxed);
+        }
+        ok
+    }
+
+    /// Total frames dropped due to a non-matching source.
+    pub fn dropped(&self) -> u64 {
+        self.dropped.load(Ordering::Relaxed)
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use std::net::{Ipv4Addr, Ipv6Addr};
+
+    fn v4(a: u8, b: u8, c: u8, d: u8) -> IpAddr {
+        IpAddr::V4(Ipv4Addr::new(a, b, c, d))
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn default_bind_is_loopback() {
+        let d = decide_udp_bind(IpAddr::V4(Ipv4Addr::LOCALHOST), false, false).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(d, UdpBindDecision::Loopback);
+        // IPv6 loopback too.
+        let d6 = decide_udp_bind(IpAddr::V6(Ipv6Addr::LOCALHOST), false, false).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(d6, UdpBindDecision::Loopback);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn routable_bind_without_allowlist_is_refused() {
+        // 0.0.0.0 is not loopback → refused with no allowlist and no override.
+        let err = decide_udp_bind(IpAddr::V4(Ipv4Addr::UNSPECIFIED), false, false).unwrap_err();
+        assert!(err.contains("Refusing"), "{err}");
+        let err_lan = decide_udp_bind(v4(192, 168, 1, 10), false, false).unwrap_err();
+        assert!(err_lan.contains("--udp-allow"), "{err_lan}");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn routable_bind_allowed_with_allowlist_or_override() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            decide_udp_bind(v4(0, 0, 0, 0), true, false).unwrap(),
+            UdpBindDecision::RoutableAllowlisted
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            decide_udp_bind(v4(0, 0, 0, 0), false, true).unwrap(),
+            UdpBindDecision::RoutableInsecure
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn loopback_bind_ignores_missing_allowlist() {
+        // Even without allowlist/override, loopback is never refused.
+        assert_eq!(
+            decide_udp_bind(IpAddr::V4(Ipv4Addr::LOCALHOST), false, false).unwrap(),
+            UdpBindDecision::Loopback
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn allowlist_accept_drop_and_count() {
+        let a = UdpSourceAllowlist::parse(["192.168.1.0/24"]).unwrap();
+        assert!(a.is_active());
+        assert!(a.admit(v4(192, 168, 1, 42)));
+        assert!(!a.admit(v4(10, 0, 0, 1)));
+        assert!(!a.admit(v4(192, 168, 2, 1)));
+        assert_eq!(a.dropped(), 2);
+        // Accepts did not touch the counter.
+        assert!(a.admit(v4(192, 168, 1, 200)));
+        assert_eq!(a.dropped(), 2);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn loopback_source_always_allowed() {
+        let a = UdpSourceAllowlist::parse(["10.0.0.0/8"]).unwrap();
+        assert!(a.admit(IpAddr::V4(Ipv4Addr::LOCALHOST)));
+        assert!(a.admit(IpAddr::V6(Ipv6Addr::LOCALHOST)));
+        assert_eq!(a.dropped(), 0);
+        // A non-loopback outside the list is still dropped.
+        assert!(!a.admit(v4(192, 168, 0, 1)));
+        assert_eq!(a.dropped(), 1);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn inactive_allowlist_accepts_everything() {
+        let a = UdpSourceAllowlist::parse(Vec::<String>::new()).unwrap();
+        assert!(!a.is_active());
+        assert!(a.admit(v4(203, 0, 113, 7)));
+        assert_eq!(a.dropped(), 0);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn exact_ip_entry_matches_only_itself() {
+        let a = UdpSourceAllowlist::parse(["10.0.0.5"]).unwrap();
+        assert!(a.is_allowed(v4(10, 0, 0, 5)));
+        assert!(!a.is_allowed(v4(10, 0, 0, 6)));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn comma_and_multi_spec_parsing() {
+        let a = UdpSourceAllowlist::parse(["192.168.1.0/24, 10.0.0.5", "172.16.0.0/12"]).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(a.len(), 3);
+        assert!(a.is_allowed(v4(172, 20, 5, 5)));
+        assert!(a.is_allowed(v4(10, 0, 0, 5)));
+        assert!(!a.is_allowed(v4(8, 8, 8, 8)));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn ipv6_cidr_matching() {
+        let a = UdpSourceAllowlist::parse(["2001:db8::/32"]).unwrap();
+        assert!(a.is_allowed("2001:db8:1234::1".parse().unwrap()));
+        assert!(!a.is_allowed("2001:dead::1".parse().unwrap()));
+        // v4 source never matches a v6 entry.
+        assert!(!a.is_allowed(v4(192, 168, 1, 1)));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn malformed_entries_error_without_panic() {
+        assert!(UdpSourceAllowlist::parse(["not-an-ip"]).is_err());
+        assert!(UdpSourceAllowlist::parse(["192.168.1.0/33"]).is_err());
+        assert!(UdpSourceAllowlist::parse(["10.0.0.0/x"]).is_err());
+        assert!(UdpSourceAllowlist::parse(["::1/129"]).is_err());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn prefix_zero_matches_all_of_family() {
+        let a = UdpSourceAllowlist::parse(["0.0.0.0/0"]).unwrap();
+        assert!(a.is_allowed(v4(1, 2, 3, 4)));
+        assert!(a.is_allowed(v4(203, 0, 113, 9)));
+        // But not IPv6 — different family.
+        assert!(!a.is_allowed("2001:db8::1".parse().unwrap()));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn startup_summary_mentions_scope_and_allowlist() {
+        let a = UdpSourceAllowlist::parse(["192.168.1.0/24"]).unwrap();
+        let s = startup_summary(
+            UdpBindDecision::RoutableAllowlisted,
+            v4(0, 0, 0, 0),
+            5005,
+            &a,
+        );
+        assert!(s.contains("allowlist active"), "{s}");
+        assert!(s.contains("loopback always allowed"), "{s}");
+
+        let empty = UdpSourceAllowlist::default();
+        let loop_s = startup_summary(
+            UdpBindDecision::Loopback,
+            IpAddr::V4(Ipv4Addr::LOCALHOST),
+            5005,
+            &empty,
+        );
+        assert!(loop_s.contains("loopback-only"), "{loop_s}");
+        assert!(loop_s.contains("no source allowlist"), "{loop_s}");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-train/src/lib.rs b/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-train/src/lib.rs
index 67c8eff4..0014b5a9 100644
--- a/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-train/src/lib.rs
+++ b/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-train/src/lib.rs
@@ -59,6 +59,11 @@ pub mod mae;
 /// `oks_canonical`, available **without** the `tch-backend` feature so the
 /// single metric definition is reachable from the workspace test gate.
 pub mod metrics_core;
+/// Model release sanity gates (ADR-295) — block degenerate and mislabeled
+/// classifier artifacts (unreachable decision boundary, constant output,
+/// degenerate class balance, missing baseline, metric-name provenance) before
+/// release. Prevention only; withdraws nothing already published.
+pub mod model_gates;
 /// Public-benchmark split protocols and leakage guards (ADR-288 §2–3) —
 /// deterministic cross-subject / cross-environment / cross-orientation
 /// assignment plus the structural [`protocols::leakage::LeakageAudit`],
@@ -115,6 +120,13 @@ pub use protocols::leakage::{
 };
 pub use protocols::{SampleMeta, SplitPlan, SplitProtocol, SplitSide};
 
+// ADR-295 — model release sanity gates.
+pub use model_gates::{
+    check_baseline, check_class_balance, check_constant_output, check_metric_provenance,
+    check_unreachable_boundary, evaluate_linear_head, GateError, GateFailure, GateOutcomeError,
+    LabeledMetric, LinearHead, MetricKind, ModelGateReport, ProbeSet,
+};
+
 pub use error::{ConfigError, DatasetError, MaeError, ProtocolError, SubcarrierError, TrainError};
 // TrainResult<T> is the generic Result alias from error.rs; the concrete
 // TrainResult struct from trainer.rs is accessed via trainer::TrainResult.
diff --git a/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-train/src/model_gates.rs b/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-train/src/model_gates.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..65f2f332
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v2/crates/wifi-densepose-train/src/model_gates.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,987 @@
+//! Model release sanity gates (ADR-295) — block degenerate and mislabeled
+//! classifier artifacts before they can ship.
+//!
+//! # Why this module exists
+//!
+//! The external review (corroborating issue 1521) showed the published presence
+//! head is mathematically degenerate: with L2-normalized embeddings, a weight
+//! norm `‖w‖ ≈ 3.67` against a bias `≈ 8.19` makes the *smallest possible*
+//! logit positive (`8.19 − 3.67 = 4.52 > 0`), so predicted presence probability
+//! is `≥ ~0.989` for **every** valid input — the decision boundary is
+//! unreachable and the head is effectively constant. The README then labeled a
+//! temporal-triplet accuracy (a representation-ordering metric) as "presence
+//! accuracy" — a category error. Nothing in the release path caught any of it.
+//!
+//! This module adds structural machine checks for those failure shapes:
+//!
+//! - [`check_unreachable_boundary`] — for a normalized-embedding linear head,
+//!   fail when `‖bias‖` dominates `‖weight‖` so the logit cannot change sign.
+//! - [`check_constant_output`] — fail when the head's output variance across a
+//!   diverse, L2-normalized probe set is below a threshold.
+//! - [`check_class_balance`] — fail when the predicted-positive rate on a
+//!   balanced probe set sits at/above a ceiling (e.g. `> 99 %`).
+//! - [`check_baseline`] — fail a report with no paired mean-pose/majority
+//!   baseline (ties into the ADR-288 [`EvaluationReport`]).
+//! - [`check_metric_provenance`] — a metric carries its computed
+//!   [`MetricKind`] and its display label derives from it, so a temporal-triplet
+//!   metric can never be surfaced under the `presence` task name.
+//!
+//! Each gate emits a structured, human-readable [`GateFailure`] naming the
+//! defect and the offending numbers.
+//!
+//! # This is prevention, not a correctness proof
+//!
+//! The gates are heuristic. They catch the *known* failure shapes above, not
+//! all bad models (ADR-295 §Consequences). This module does **not** withdraw
+//! any already-published artifact — an outward-facing action requiring
+//! maintainer sign-off — it prevents recurrence.
+//!
+//! All checks are deterministic: probe sets are generated in code from a linear
+//! head with no RNG state, and the sweep exercises the full reachable logit
+//! range so the constant-output verdict is dimension-robust (random unit
+//! vectors concentrate near-orthogonal to the weight in high dimensions and
+//! would hide a live boundary).
+
+use thiserror::Error;
+
+use crate::protocols::leakage::EvaluationReport;
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Tunable thresholds (documented defaults; every gate also takes an explicit
+// argument so a workflow can tighten them).
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/// Default population-variance floor for [`check_constant_output`]. Below this,
+/// the head's probability output is treated as effectively constant. The
+/// issue-1521 head sits far under it (all logits in `[4.52, 11.86]` ⇒ sigmoid in
+/// `[0.989, 1.0)`); a head that sweeps `[-‖w‖, ‖w‖]` around a reachable boundary
+/// sits far above it.
+pub const DEFAULT_MIN_OUTPUT_VARIANCE: f64 = 1e-4;
+
+/// Default predicted-positive-rate ceiling for [`check_class_balance`]. A head
+/// that predicts positive for `> 99 %` of a balanced probe is degenerate.
+pub const DEFAULT_MAX_POSITIVE_RATE: f64 = 0.99;
+
+/// Default number of probe points swept across the reachable logit range.
+pub const DEFAULT_PROBE_POINTS: usize = 64;
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// GateError — malformed input at the construction boundary (never a panic).
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/// Errors from constructing a gate input from untrusted numbers.
+///
+/// These are *malformed artifact* errors (empty weight vector, non-finite
+/// parameters), distinct from a [`GateFailure`] which is a well-formed head
+/// that a gate rejected.
+#[derive(Debug, Error, PartialEq)]
+pub enum GateError {
+    /// The weight vector was empty; a linear head needs at least one dimension.
+    #[error("linear head weight vector is empty")]
+    EmptyWeight,
+
+    /// A weight or bias value was NaN or ±inf; corrupted parameters must be
+    /// rejected upstream, never scored.
+    #[error("non-finite parameter `{what}`: {value}")]
+    NonFiniteParameter {
+        /// Which parameter (`"weight[i]"` or `"bias"`).
+        what: String,
+        /// The offending value.
+        value: f64,
+    },
+
+    /// A probe set was empty.
+    #[error("probe set is empty")]
+    EmptyProbe,
+
+    /// A probe embedding length did not match the head dimension.
+    #[error("probe embedding has dimension {actual}, expected {expected}")]
+    ProbeDimMismatch {
+        /// Head dimension.
+        expected: usize,
+        /// Probe embedding length.
+        actual: usize,
+    },
+
+    /// A metric value was NaN or ±inf.
+    #[error("metric value is not finite: {0}")]
+    NonFiniteMetric(f64),
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// GateFailure — a well-formed head/report that a gate rejected.
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/// A structured, human-readable gate failure carrying the offending numbers.
+#[derive(Debug, Error, Clone, PartialEq)]
+pub enum GateFailure {
+    /// The decision boundary (`logit = 0`) is analytically unreachable: with
+    /// L2-normalized embeddings the logit is confined to
+    /// `[bias − ‖w‖, bias + ‖w‖]`, and this interval does not straddle zero.
+    #[error(
+        "unreachable decision boundary: L2-normalized logit is confined to \
+         [{min_logit:.4}, {max_logit:.4}] (bias {bias:.4}, ‖weight‖ {weight_norm:.4}); \
+         it never crosses 0, so the classifier is effectively constant"
+    )]
+    UnreachableBoundary {
+        /// `‖weight‖₂`.
+        weight_norm: f64,
+        /// Head bias.
+        bias: f64,
+        /// Minimum achievable logit (`bias − ‖w‖`).
+        min_logit: f64,
+        /// Maximum achievable logit (`bias + ‖w‖`).
+        max_logit: f64,
+    },
+
+    /// The output variance across the probe set is below the threshold — the
+    /// head is effectively constant.
+    #[error(
+        "constant output: probability variance {variance:.3e} across {probe_size} \
+         probes is below threshold {threshold:.3e} (outputs in [{min_output:.4}, \
+         {max_output:.4}])"
+    )]
+    ConstantOutput {
+        /// Population variance of the probability outputs.
+        variance: f64,
+        /// Variance floor that was violated.
+        threshold: f64,
+        /// Minimum probability output over the probe set.
+        min_output: f64,
+        /// Maximum probability output over the probe set.
+        max_output: f64,
+        /// Number of probes evaluated.
+        probe_size: usize,
+    },
+
+    /// The predicted-positive rate on a balanced probe is at/above the ceiling.
+    #[error(
+        "degenerate class balance: predicted-positive rate {positive_rate:.4} on \
+         {probe_size} balanced probes is at/above ceiling {ceiling:.4}"
+    )]
+    ClassBalance {
+        /// Fraction of probes classified positive (`logit ≥ 0`).
+        positive_rate: f64,
+        /// Ceiling that was violated.
+        ceiling: f64,
+        /// Number of probes evaluated.
+        probe_size: usize,
+    },
+
+    /// A report was surfaced without a paired baseline (ADR-288).
+    #[error("missing baseline: {reason}")]
+    MissingBaseline {
+        /// Why the baseline is considered missing/blank.
+        reason: String,
+    },
+
+    /// A metric computed under one kind was surfaced under another task name.
+    #[error(
+        "metric-name provenance mismatch: metric computed as `{computed_kind}` \
+         ({computed_label}) may not be surfaced as `{surfaced_kind}` \
+         ({surfaced_label})"
+    )]
+    MetricProvenance {
+        /// Kind the metric was actually computed under.
+        computed_kind: &'static str,
+        /// Display label of the computed kind.
+        computed_label: &'static str,
+        /// Kind the metric was being surfaced under.
+        surfaced_kind: &'static str,
+        /// Display label of the surfaced kind.
+        surfaced_label: &'static str,
+    },
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// LinearHead
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/// A single-logit linear classification head `logit(x) = weight · x + bias`,
+/// the shape of the published presence head. Kept parameter-only (no `tch`) so
+/// the gates run on the workspace test gate without libtorch.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
+pub struct LinearHead {
+    weight: Vec<f32>,
+    bias: f32,
+}
+
+impl LinearHead {
+    /// Build a head from raw parameters, validating them at the boundary.
+    ///
+    /// # Errors
+    ///
+    /// - [`GateError::EmptyWeight`] when `weight` is empty.
+    /// - [`GateError::NonFiniteParameter`] when any weight or the bias is
+    ///   NaN/±inf.
+    pub fn new(weight: Vec<f32>, bias: f32) -> Result<Self, GateError> {
+        if weight.is_empty() {
+            return Err(GateError::EmptyWeight);
+        }
+        for (i, &w) in weight.iter().enumerate() {
+            if !w.is_finite() {
+                return Err(GateError::NonFiniteParameter {
+                    what: format!("weight[{i}]"),
+                    value: w as f64,
+                });
+            }
+        }
+        if !bias.is_finite() {
+            return Err(GateError::NonFiniteParameter {
+                what: "bias".to_string(),
+                value: bias as f64,
+            });
+        }
+        Ok(LinearHead { weight, bias })
+    }
+
+    /// Embedding dimension.
+    #[must_use]
+    pub fn dim(&self) -> usize {
+        self.weight.len()
+    }
+
+    /// Head bias as `f64`.
+    #[must_use]
+    pub fn bias(&self) -> f64 {
+        self.bias as f64
+    }
+
+    /// `‖weight‖₂`.
+    #[must_use]
+    pub fn weight_norm(&self) -> f64 {
+        self.weight
+            .iter()
+            .map(|&w| (w as f64) * (w as f64))
+            .sum::<f64>()
+            .sqrt()
+    }
+
+    /// Minimum achievable logit for a unit-norm embedding (`bias − ‖w‖`).
+    #[must_use]
+    pub fn min_logit_normalized(&self) -> f64 {
+        self.bias() - self.weight_norm()
+    }
+
+    /// Maximum achievable logit for a unit-norm embedding (`bias + ‖w‖`).
+    #[must_use]
+    pub fn max_logit_normalized(&self) -> f64 {
+        self.bias() + self.weight_norm()
+    }
+
+    /// Compute the logit `weight · embedding + bias`.
+    ///
+    /// # Errors
+    ///
+    /// [`GateError::ProbeDimMismatch`] when `embedding.len() != self.dim()`.
+    pub fn logit(&self, embedding: &[f32]) -> Result<f64, GateError> {
+        if embedding.len() != self.dim() {
+            return Err(GateError::ProbeDimMismatch {
+                expected: self.dim(),
+                actual: embedding.len(),
+            });
+        }
+        let dot: f64 = self
+            .weight
+            .iter()
+            .zip(embedding)
+            .map(|(&w, &x)| (w as f64) * (x as f64))
+            .sum();
+        Ok(dot + self.bias())
+    }
+
+    /// Presence probability `σ(logit)`, numerically stable.
+    ///
+    /// # Errors
+    ///
+    /// [`GateError::ProbeDimMismatch`] when `embedding.len() != self.dim()`.
+    pub fn presence_prob(&self, embedding: &[f32]) -> Result<f64, GateError> {
+        Ok(sigmoid(self.logit(embedding)?))
+    }
+}
+
+/// Numerically stable logistic sigmoid.
+fn sigmoid(x: f64) -> f64 {
+    if x >= 0.0 {
+        1.0 / (1.0 + (-x).exp())
+    } else {
+        let e = x.exp();
+        e / (1.0 + e)
+    }
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// ProbeSet
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/// A deterministic set of L2-normalized embeddings used to probe a head.
+///
+/// [`ProbeSet::sweep_for_head`] sweeps the embedding whose projection onto the
+/// weight direction ranges over `[-1, 1]`, so the logit ranges over the full
+/// reachable interval `[bias − ‖w‖, bias + ‖w‖]`. This is the degenerate
+/// normalized-embedding probe from issue 1521: every embedding is unit norm,
+/// and the sweep is exactly what exposes an unreachable boundary or a constant
+/// output, independent of embedding dimension.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
+pub struct ProbeSet {
+    embeddings: Vec<Vec<f32>>,
+}
+
+impl ProbeSet {
+    /// Build a probe set from explicit embeddings, validating shape/finiteness.
+    ///
+    /// # Errors
+    ///
+    /// - [`GateError::EmptyProbe`] when `embeddings` is empty.
+    /// - [`GateError::NonFiniteParameter`] when any coordinate is NaN/±inf.
+    pub fn from_embeddings(embeddings: Vec<Vec<f32>>) -> Result<Self, GateError> {
+        if embeddings.is_empty() {
+            return Err(GateError::EmptyProbe);
+        }
+        for row in &embeddings {
+            if row.is_empty() {
+                return Err(GateError::EmptyProbe);
+            }
+            for (i, &v) in row.iter().enumerate() {
+                if !v.is_finite() {
+                    return Err(GateError::NonFiniteParameter {
+                        what: format!("probe[{i}]"),
+                        value: v as f64,
+                    });
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        Ok(ProbeSet { embeddings })
+    }
+
+    /// Sweep the reachable logit range with `num` L2-normalized embeddings.
+    ///
+    /// Each embedding is `x = c·û_w + √(1−c²)·û⊥` for a cosine `c` linearly
+    /// spaced over `[-1, 1]`, where `û_w` is the weight direction and `û⊥` is a
+    /// fixed unit vector orthogonal to it — so `‖x‖ = 1` and the projection
+    /// onto `w` is exactly `c·‖w‖`. `num` is clamped to at least 2. When the
+    /// weight norm is ~0 (a genuinely constant head) the sweep falls back to
+    /// signed basis vectors, which still expose the constant output.
+    #[must_use]
+    pub fn sweep_for_head(head: &LinearHead, num: usize) -> Self {
+        let num = num.max(2);
+        let dim = head.dim();
+        let norm = head.weight_norm();
+
+        // Degenerate weight: no direction to sweep. Use signed basis vectors;
+        // the head is constant regardless of input, which the gate will catch.
+        if norm < 1e-12 {
+            let mut embeddings = Vec::with_capacity(num);
+            for k in 0..num {
+                let mut e = vec![0.0f32; dim];
+                let idx = k % dim;
+                e[idx] = if k % 2 == 0 { 1.0 } else { -1.0 };
+                embeddings.push(e);
+            }
+            return ProbeSet { embeddings };
+        }
+
+        let u_w: Vec<f64> = head.weight.iter().map(|&w| (w as f64) / norm).collect();
+
+        // dim == 1: the only unit embeddings are ±1.
+        if dim == 1 {
+            return ProbeSet {
+                embeddings: vec![vec![-1.0f32], vec![1.0f32]],
+            };
+        }
+
+        // Pick the axis least aligned with the weight for a stable orthogonal
+        // direction; project it off u_w and normalize.
+        let k = argmin_abs(&u_w);
+        let dot_k = u_w[k];
+        let perp_norm = (1.0 - dot_k * dot_k).sqrt();
+        let u_perp: Vec<f64> = (0..dim)
+            .map(|i| {
+                let e_i = if i == k { 1.0 } else { 0.0 };
+                (e_i - dot_k * u_w[i]) / perp_norm
+            })
+            .collect();
+
+        let mut embeddings = Vec::with_capacity(num);
+        for j in 0..num {
+            let c = -1.0 + 2.0 * (j as f64) / ((num - 1) as f64);
+            let s = (1.0 - c * c).max(0.0).sqrt();
+            let x: Vec<f32> = (0..dim)
+                .map(|i| (c * u_w[i] + s * u_perp[i]) as f32)
+                .collect();
+            embeddings.push(x);
+        }
+        ProbeSet { embeddings }
+    }
+
+    /// Number of probes.
+    #[must_use]
+    pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
+        self.embeddings.len()
+    }
+
+    /// Whether the probe set is empty (never true after construction).
+    #[must_use]
+    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
+        self.embeddings.is_empty()
+    }
+
+    /// Probability outputs of `head` over every probe.
+    ///
+    /// # Errors
+    ///
+    /// [`GateError::ProbeDimMismatch`] when a probe length differs from the head
+    /// dimension.
+    pub fn probabilities(&self, head: &LinearHead) -> Result<Vec<f64>, GateError> {
+        self.embeddings
+            .iter()
+            .map(|e| head.presence_prob(e))
+            .collect()
+    }
+}
+
+/// Index of the smallest-magnitude entry (ties resolved to the first).
+fn argmin_abs(v: &[f64]) -> usize {
+    let mut best = 0usize;
+    let mut best_abs = f64::INFINITY;
+    for (i, &x) in v.iter().enumerate() {
+        let a = x.abs();
+        if a < best_abs {
+            best_abs = a;
+            best = i;
+        }
+    }
+    best
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Gates
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/// Fail when the decision boundary is analytically unreachable for a
+/// normalized-embedding linear head.
+///
+/// With `‖x‖ = 1`, Cauchy–Schwarz confines the logit to
+/// `[bias − ‖w‖, bias + ‖w‖]`. If this interval does not straddle `0` (i.e.
+/// `|bias| ≥ ‖w‖`), the sign of the logit is fixed and the classifier is
+/// effectively constant. The issue-1521 head (`‖w‖ ≈ 3.67`, `bias ≈ 8.19`) has
+/// `min_logit ≈ 4.52 > 0` and fails here.
+///
+/// # Errors
+///
+/// [`GateFailure::UnreachableBoundary`] with the confining interval.
+pub fn check_unreachable_boundary(head: &LinearHead) -> Result<(), GateFailure> {
+    let min_logit = head.min_logit_normalized();
+    let max_logit = head.max_logit_normalized();
+    // The boundary is reachable only if the interval straddles zero. At the
+    // exact touch (`min_logit == 0` or `max_logit == 0`) it is reachable at a
+    // single antipodal point only — treat as unreachable.
+    if min_logit >= 0.0 || max_logit <= 0.0 {
+        return Err(GateFailure::UnreachableBoundary {
+            weight_norm: head.weight_norm(),
+            bias: head.bias(),
+            min_logit,
+            max_logit,
+        });
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+/// Fail when the head's probability output has variance below `min_variance`
+/// across the probe set — an effectively constant classifier.
+///
+/// # Errors
+///
+/// - [`GateError`] when a probe length is wrong.
+/// - [`GateFailure::ConstantOutput`] when the variance is below `min_variance`.
+pub fn check_constant_output(
+    head: &LinearHead,
+    probe: &ProbeSet,
+    min_variance: f64,
+) -> Result<(), GateOutcomeError> {
+    let probs = probe.probabilities(head).map_err(GateOutcomeError::Input)?;
+    let n = probs.len() as f64;
+    let mean = probs.iter().sum::<f64>() / n;
+    let variance = probs.iter().map(|p| (p - mean).powi(2)).sum::<f64>() / n;
+    if variance < min_variance {
+        let min_output = probs.iter().cloned().fold(f64::INFINITY, f64::min);
+        let max_output = probs.iter().cloned().fold(f64::NEG_INFINITY, f64::max);
+        return Err(GateOutcomeError::Failure(GateFailure::ConstantOutput {
+            variance,
+            threshold: min_variance,
+            min_output,
+            max_output,
+            probe_size: probs.len(),
+        }));
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+/// Fail when the predicted-positive rate (`logit ≥ 0`) on a balanced probe set
+/// is at/above `max_positive_rate`.
+///
+/// # Errors
+///
+/// - [`GateError`] when a probe length is wrong.
+/// - [`GateFailure::ClassBalance`] when the positive rate is at/above the
+///   ceiling.
+pub fn check_class_balance(
+    head: &LinearHead,
+    probe: &ProbeSet,
+    max_positive_rate: f64,
+) -> Result<(), GateOutcomeError> {
+    let probs = probe.probabilities(head).map_err(GateOutcomeError::Input)?;
+    let positives = probs.iter().filter(|&&p| p >= 0.5).count();
+    let positive_rate = positives as f64 / probs.len() as f64;
+    if positive_rate >= max_positive_rate {
+        return Err(GateOutcomeError::Failure(GateFailure::ClassBalance {
+            positive_rate,
+            ceiling: max_positive_rate,
+            probe_size: probs.len(),
+        }));
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+/// Fail when a metric is surfaced without a paired baseline (ADR-288).
+///
+/// A well-formed [`EvaluationReport`] structurally carries its `baseline_metric`
+/// (a model number can never be built without one), so this gate's job is to
+/// reject the *absence* of a report and any non-finite baseline slipped in from
+/// elsewhere.
+///
+/// # Errors
+///
+/// [`GateFailure::MissingBaseline`] when `report` is `None` or its baseline is
+/// not finite.
+pub fn check_baseline(report: Option<&EvaluationReport>) -> Result<(), GateFailure> {
+    match report {
+        None => Err(GateFailure::MissingBaseline {
+            reason: "no EvaluationReport was provided; a model number must be \
+                     paired with a mean-pose/majority baseline (ADR-288)"
+                .to_string(),
+        }),
+        Some(r) if !r.baseline_metric.is_finite() => Err(GateFailure::MissingBaseline {
+            reason: format!(
+                "baseline for `{}` is not finite ({})",
+                r.metric_name, r.baseline_metric
+            ),
+        }),
+        Some(_) => Ok(()),
+    }
+}
+
+/// The result of running a gate that consumes a probe set: either a malformed
+/// input ([`GateError`]) or a well-formed head that the gate rejected
+/// ([`GateFailure`]).
+#[derive(Debug, Error)]
+pub enum GateOutcomeError {
+    /// Malformed input reached the gate.
+    #[error("gate input error: {0}")]
+    Input(#[from] GateError),
+
+    /// The gate rejected a well-formed artifact.
+    #[error("gate failed: {0}")]
+    Failure(#[from] GateFailure),
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Metric-name provenance
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/// The computed kind of a scalar metric. The kind is the source of truth; the
+/// display label ([`MetricKind::label`]) derives from it, so a metric computed
+/// as [`MetricKind::TemporalTriplet`] can never present itself as
+/// [`MetricKind::Presence`].
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub enum MetricKind {
+    /// Binary presence-detection accuracy.
+    Presence,
+    /// Temporal-triplet (representation-ordering) accuracy — an ordering task,
+    /// **not** presence detection.
+    TemporalTriplet,
+    /// Percentage of correct keypoints.
+    Pck,
+    /// Mean per-joint position error.
+    Mpjpe,
+}
+
+impl MetricKind {
+    /// Stable short kind name (kebab-case), for machine comparison.
+    #[must_use]
+    pub fn name(&self) -> &'static str {
+        match self {
+            MetricKind::Presence => "presence",
+            MetricKind::TemporalTriplet => "temporal-triplet",
+            MetricKind::Pck => "pck",
+            MetricKind::Mpjpe => "mpjpe",
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Human display label derived from the kind — the *only* way a metric is
+    /// named, so the label always matches how the number was computed.
+    #[must_use]
+    pub fn label(&self) -> &'static str {
+        match self {
+            MetricKind::Presence => "presence accuracy",
+            MetricKind::TemporalTriplet => "temporal-triplet accuracy",
+            MetricKind::Pck => "PCK",
+            MetricKind::Mpjpe => "MPJPE",
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// A scalar metric that carries its computed [`MetricKind`]. There is no
+/// constructor that accepts a free-form label — the label is always derived
+/// from `kind` — so a temporal-triplet number cannot be built as "presence".
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq)]
+pub struct LabeledMetric {
+    kind: MetricKind,
+    value: f64,
+}
+
+impl LabeledMetric {
+    /// Build a metric of a given kind, validating the value is finite.
+    ///
+    /// # Errors
+    ///
+    /// [`GateError::NonFiniteMetric`] when `value` is NaN/±inf.
+    pub fn new(kind: MetricKind, value: f64) -> Result<Self, GateError> {
+        if !value.is_finite() {
+            return Err(GateError::NonFiniteMetric(value));
+        }
+        Ok(LabeledMetric { kind, value })
+    }
+
+    /// The computed kind (source of truth).
+    #[must_use]
+    pub fn kind(&self) -> MetricKind {
+        self.kind
+    }
+
+    /// The scalar value.
+    #[must_use]
+    pub fn value(&self) -> f64 {
+        self.value
+    }
+
+    /// Display label derived from [`MetricKind::label`].
+    #[must_use]
+    pub fn label(&self) -> &'static str {
+        self.kind.label()
+    }
+
+    /// One-line self-describing string, e.g. `"temporal-triplet accuracy: 0.9000"`.
+    #[must_use]
+    pub fn describe(&self) -> String {
+        format!("{}: {:.4}", self.label(), self.value)
+    }
+}
+
+/// Fail when a metric would be surfaced under a task name that does not match
+/// the kind it was computed as (temporal-triplet ≠ presence).
+///
+/// # Errors
+///
+/// [`GateFailure::MetricProvenance`] when `metric.kind() != surfaced_as`.
+pub fn check_metric_provenance(
+    metric: &LabeledMetric,
+    surfaced_as: MetricKind,
+) -> Result<(), GateFailure> {
+    if metric.kind() != surfaced_as {
+        return Err(GateFailure::MetricProvenance {
+            computed_kind: metric.kind().name(),
+            computed_label: metric.kind().label(),
+            surfaced_kind: surfaced_as.name(),
+            surfaced_label: surfaced_as.label(),
+        });
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Aggregate report — a single entry point for the CI model-check gate.
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/// Aggregated verdict of the head-level release gates. Runs
+/// [`check_unreachable_boundary`], [`check_constant_output`], and
+/// [`check_class_balance`] against a swept probe set, plus [`check_baseline`]
+/// when a report is supplied. Collects *every* failure rather than short-
+/// circuiting so a maintainer sees all defects at once.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default)]
+pub struct ModelGateReport {
+    /// Failures collected across the gates.
+    pub failures: Vec<GateFailure>,
+}
+
+impl ModelGateReport {
+    /// Whether every gate passed.
+    #[must_use]
+    pub fn passed(&self) -> bool {
+        self.failures.is_empty()
+    }
+
+    /// Human-readable multi-line summary of the failures (or a pass line).
+    #[must_use]
+    pub fn summary(&self) -> String {
+        if self.passed() {
+            return "model release gates: PASS".to_string();
+        }
+        let mut s = format!("model release gates: FAIL ({} issue(s))", self.failures.len());
+        for f in &self.failures {
+            s.push_str("\n  - ");
+            s.push_str(&f.to_string());
+        }
+        s
+    }
+}
+
+/// Run the head-level release gates and collect all failures.
+///
+/// Uses [`DEFAULT_MIN_OUTPUT_VARIANCE`], [`DEFAULT_MAX_POSITIVE_RATE`], and a
+/// [`DEFAULT_PROBE_POINTS`] sweep. Malformed probe evaluation is impossible here
+/// because the sweep is generated to match the head dimension.
+#[must_use]
+pub fn evaluate_linear_head(
+    head: &LinearHead,
+    baseline: Option<&EvaluationReport>,
+) -> ModelGateReport {
+    let mut failures = Vec::new();
+
+    if let Err(f) = check_unreachable_boundary(head) {
+        failures.push(f);
+    }
+
+    let probe = ProbeSet::sweep_for_head(head, DEFAULT_PROBE_POINTS);
+    if let Err(GateOutcomeError::Failure(f)) =
+        check_constant_output(head, &probe, DEFAULT_MIN_OUTPUT_VARIANCE)
+    {
+        failures.push(f);
+    }
+    if let Err(GateOutcomeError::Failure(f)) =
+        check_class_balance(head, &probe, DEFAULT_MAX_POSITIVE_RATE)
+    {
+        failures.push(f);
+    }
+
+    if let Err(f) = check_baseline(baseline) {
+        failures.push(f);
+    }
+
+    ModelGateReport { failures }
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Tests
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use crate::protocols::SplitProtocol;
+
+    /// The issue-1521 presence head: `‖w‖ ≈ 3.67`, `bias ≈ 8.19`. We build a
+    /// weight vector whose norm is 3.67 by spreading it over 4 dims.
+    fn issue_1521_head() -> LinearHead {
+        // 4 equal components with norm 3.67 ⇒ each = 3.67 / 2 = 1.835.
+        let c = 3.67f32 / 2.0;
+        LinearHead::new(vec![c, c, c, c], 8.19).unwrap()
+    }
+
+    /// A healthy synthetic head: reachable boundary, balanced, diverse output.
+    fn healthy_head() -> LinearHead {
+        // ‖w‖ = 4, bias = 0 ⇒ logit sweeps [-4, 4], sigmoid [0.018, 0.982].
+        LinearHead::new(vec![2.0, 2.0, 2.0, 2.0], 0.0).unwrap()
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn issue_1521_norm_and_bias_match_the_review() {
+        let h = issue_1521_head();
+        assert!((h.weight_norm() - 3.67).abs() < 1e-4, "norm {}", h.weight_norm());
+        assert!((h.bias() - 8.19).abs() < 1e-6);
+        // Smallest achievable logit stays positive — the degenerate signature.
+        assert!(h.min_logit_normalized() > 0.0);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn issue_1521_fails_unreachable_boundary() {
+        let h = issue_1521_head();
+        let err = check_unreachable_boundary(&h).unwrap_err();
+        match err {
+            GateFailure::UnreachableBoundary { min_logit, max_logit, .. } => {
+                assert!(min_logit > 0.0);
+                assert!(max_logit > 0.0);
+            }
+            other => panic!("expected UnreachableBoundary, got {other:?}"),
+        }
+        // The failure message must carry the offending numbers.
+        let msg = check_unreachable_boundary(&h).unwrap_err().to_string();
+        assert!(msg.contains("unreachable decision boundary"), "{msg}");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn issue_1521_fails_constant_output() {
+        let h = issue_1521_head();
+        let probe = ProbeSet::sweep_for_head(&h, DEFAULT_PROBE_POINTS);
+        let err = check_constant_output(&h, &probe, DEFAULT_MIN_OUTPUT_VARIANCE).unwrap_err();
+        match err {
+            GateOutcomeError::Failure(GateFailure::ConstantOutput {
+                variance,
+                threshold,
+                min_output,
+                ..
+            }) => {
+                assert!(variance < threshold);
+                // Even the minimum output is a near-certain positive.
+                assert!(min_output > 0.98, "min_output {min_output}");
+            }
+            other => panic!("expected ConstantOutput, got {other:?}"),
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn issue_1521_aggregate_fails_boundary_and_constant() {
+        let h = issue_1521_head();
+        let report = evaluate_linear_head(&h, None);
+        assert!(!report.passed());
+        let has_boundary = report
+            .failures
+            .iter()
+            .any(|f| matches!(f, GateFailure::UnreachableBoundary { .. }));
+        let has_constant = report
+            .failures
+            .iter()
+            .any(|f| matches!(f, GateFailure::ConstantOutput { .. }));
+        assert!(has_boundary, "expected unreachable-boundary failure");
+        assert!(has_constant, "expected constant-output failure");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn healthy_head_passes_head_gates() {
+        let h = healthy_head();
+        assert!(check_unreachable_boundary(&h).is_ok());
+
+        let probe = ProbeSet::sweep_for_head(&h, DEFAULT_PROBE_POINTS);
+        assert!(check_constant_output(&h, &probe, DEFAULT_MIN_OUTPUT_VARIANCE).is_ok());
+        assert!(check_class_balance(&h, &probe, DEFAULT_MAX_POSITIVE_RATE).is_ok());
+
+        // With a baseline report supplied, the aggregate passes entirely.
+        let rep = EvaluationReport::synthetic(
+            SplitProtocol::CrossSubject,
+            "presence",
+            0.71,
+            0.50,
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+        let gate = evaluate_linear_head(&h, Some(&rep));
+        assert!(gate.passed(), "{}", gate.summary());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn constant_weight_head_fails_constant_output() {
+        // Zero weight ⇒ logit == bias for every input ⇒ genuinely constant.
+        let h = LinearHead::new(vec![0.0, 0.0, 0.0], 0.3).unwrap();
+        let probe = ProbeSet::sweep_for_head(&h, DEFAULT_PROBE_POINTS);
+        let err = check_constant_output(&h, &probe, DEFAULT_MIN_OUTPUT_VARIANCE).unwrap_err();
+        assert!(matches!(
+            err,
+            GateOutcomeError::Failure(GateFailure::ConstantOutput { .. })
+        ));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn degenerate_class_balance_fails() {
+        // Issue-1521 head classifies 100% positive.
+        let h = issue_1521_head();
+        let probe = ProbeSet::sweep_for_head(&h, DEFAULT_PROBE_POINTS);
+        let err = check_class_balance(&h, &probe, DEFAULT_MAX_POSITIVE_RATE).unwrap_err();
+        match err {
+            GateOutcomeError::Failure(GateFailure::ClassBalance { positive_rate, .. }) => {
+                assert!((positive_rate - 1.0).abs() < 1e-9);
+            }
+            other => panic!("expected ClassBalance, got {other:?}"),
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn missing_baseline_fails_and_present_passes() {
+        assert!(check_baseline(None).is_err());
+        let rep = EvaluationReport::synthetic(
+            SplitProtocol::CrossSubject,
+            "pck@0.2",
+            0.61,
+            0.41,
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+        assert!(check_baseline(Some(&rep)).is_ok());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn temporal_triplet_cannot_be_labeled_presence() {
+        let m = LabeledMetric::new(MetricKind::TemporalTriplet, 0.90).unwrap();
+        // The label derives from the computed kind — it is NOT "presence accuracy".
+        assert_eq!(m.label(), "temporal-triplet accuracy");
+        assert_ne!(m.label(), MetricKind::Presence.label());
+        assert!(m.describe().contains("temporal-triplet accuracy"));
+
+        // Surfacing it under the presence task name is a structural error.
+        let err = check_metric_provenance(&m, MetricKind::Presence).unwrap_err();
+        match err {
+            GateFailure::MetricProvenance {
+                computed_kind,
+                surfaced_kind,
+                ..
+            } => {
+                assert_eq!(computed_kind, "temporal-triplet");
+                assert_eq!(surfaced_kind, "presence");
+            }
+            other => panic!("expected MetricProvenance, got {other:?}"),
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn matching_metric_provenance_passes() {
+        let m = LabeledMetric::new(MetricKind::Presence, 0.88).unwrap();
+        assert!(check_metric_provenance(&m, MetricKind::Presence).is_ok());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn malformed_inputs_are_errors_not_panics() {
+        assert_eq!(LinearHead::new(vec![], 0.0).unwrap_err(), GateError::EmptyWeight);
+        assert!(matches!(
+            LinearHead::new(vec![f32::NAN], 0.0).unwrap_err(),
+            GateError::NonFiniteParameter { .. }
+        ));
+        assert!(matches!(
+            LinearHead::new(vec![1.0], f32::INFINITY).unwrap_err(),
+            GateError::NonFiniteParameter { .. }
+        ));
+        assert!(matches!(
+            LabeledMetric::new(MetricKind::Pck, f64::NAN).unwrap_err(),
+            GateError::NonFiniteMetric(_)
+        ));
+        assert_eq!(
+            ProbeSet::from_embeddings(vec![]).unwrap_err(),
+            GateError::EmptyProbe
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn logit_rejects_dimension_mismatch() {
+        let h = healthy_head(); // dim 4
+        assert!(matches!(
+            h.logit(&[1.0, 2.0]).unwrap_err(),
+            GateError::ProbeDimMismatch { expected: 4, actual: 2 }
+        ));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn sweep_embeddings_are_unit_norm() {
+        let h = healthy_head();
+        let probe = ProbeSet::sweep_for_head(&h, 16);
+        for e in &probe.embeddings {
+            let n: f64 = e.iter().map(|&x| (x as f64) * (x as f64)).sum::<f64>().sqrt();
+            assert!((n - 1.0).abs() < 1e-5, "norm {n}");
+        }
+    }
+}