diff --git a/loopx/public_safe_text.py b/loopx/public_safe_text.py
index 7096a36625..90bc089695 100644
--- a/loopx/public_safe_text.py
+++ b/loopx/public_safe_text.py
@@ -285,6 +285,26 @@
     PRESENTATION_EXTENDED_WINDOWS_PATH_PATTERN,
     PRESENTATION_COLON_PREFIXED_WINDOWS_PATH_PATTERN,
 )
+# The provider-issued credential shapes, as one alternation body shared by every
+# owner that has to recognize a token with no label at all. A prefix carries the
+# provider's own issuer identity, so the shape is self-describing and a caller
+# never has to guess a label; the length floor keeps ordinary prose out. Case
+# folding is left to the consumer's compile flags or inline `(?i)`, so this
+# string stays a plain alternation instead of owning one flag decision.
+#
+# Kept here rather than restated per caller: a scan that recognizes only some
+# issuers certifies the rest as public-safe, and copies drift (Refs #5136).
+PROVIDER_TOKEN_SHAPE_PATTERN_SOURCE = (
+    r"\bgh[pousr]_[a-z0-9]{16,}\b|"
+    r"\bgithub_pat_[a-z0-9_]{20,}|"
+    r"\b(?:akia|asia)[a-z0-9]{16}\b|"
+    r"\bxox[baprs]-[a-z0-9-]{10,}|"
+    r"\baiza[a-z0-9_-]{20,}|"
+    r"\b(?:sk|rk)_(?:live|test)_[a-z0-9]{12,}|"
+    r"\bnpm_[a-z0-9]{20,}|"
+    r"\bpypi-[a-z0-9_-]{20,}|"
+    r"\beyj[a-z0-9_-]{10,}\.[a-z0-9_-]{10,}\.[a-z0-9_-]{10,}\b"
+)
 PRESENTATION_PUBLIC_BOUNDARY_PATTERNS: tuple[
     tuple[str, re.Pattern[str]], ...
 ] = (
@@ -311,31 +331,19 @@
             re.IGNORECASE,
         ),
     ),
+    # An issuer prefix is its own label: a token carried in tool output or a
+    # pasted log rarely arrives as an assignment, so the assignment arm never
+    # sees it. Composed from the shared source the sibling scanners consume
+    # (#7636), case-folded like the presentation local-path arms.
+    (
+        "provider token",
+        re.compile(r"(?i)(?:" + PROVIDER_TOKEN_SHAPE_PATTERN_SOURCE + r")"),
+    ),
 )
 # Refs #5136: one definition for "this string carries a raw remote location".
 # Three validators each restated the same scheme list, and the canonical
 # public-safety owner had no counterpart, so a fourth caller had to invent one.
 REMOTE_LOCATION_SURFACE_PATTERN = re.compile(r"(?i)\b(?:https?|file|s3|gs|tos|hdfs)://")
-# The provider-issued credential shapes, as one alternation body shared by every
-# owner that has to recognize a token with no label at all. A prefix carries the
-# provider's own issuer identity, so the shape is self-describing and a caller
-# never has to guess a label; the length floor keeps ordinary prose out. Case
-# folding is left to the consumer's compile flags or inline `(?i)`, so this
-# string stays a plain alternation instead of owning one flag decision.
-#
-# Kept here rather than restated per caller: a scan that recognizes only some
-# issuers certifies the rest as public-safe, and copies drift (Refs #5136).
-PROVIDER_TOKEN_SHAPE_PATTERN_SOURCE = (
-    r"\bgh[pousr]_[a-z0-9]{16,}\b|"
-    r"\bgithub_pat_[a-z0-9_]{20,}|"
-    r"\b(?:akia|asia)[a-z0-9]{16}\b|"
-    r"\bxox[baprs]-[a-z0-9-]{10,}|"
-    r"\baiza[a-z0-9_-]{20,}|"
-    r"\b(?:sk|rk)_(?:live|test)_[a-z0-9]{12,}|"
-    r"\bnpm_[a-z0-9]{20,}|"
-    r"\bpypi-[a-z0-9_-]{20,}|"
-    r"\beyj[a-z0-9_-]{10,}\.[a-z0-9_-]{10,}\.[a-z0-9_-]{10,}\b"
-)
 SECRET_LIKE_SURFACE_PATTERN = re.compile(
     r"(?i)(?:\bbearer\s+[a-z0-9._~+/=-]{16,}|"
     r"\b(?:access|api|secret)[_-]?key[\"']?\s*[=:]\s*[\"']?[^\s`'\"<>]+|"
diff --git a/tests/control_plane/test_presentation_public_safety.py b/tests/control_plane/test_presentation_public_safety.py
index 7c30d72d94..d0b262aadc 100644
--- a/tests/control_plane/test_presentation_public_safety.py
+++ b/tests/control_plane/test_presentation_public_safety.py
@@ -75,3 +75,53 @@ def test_colon_prefixed_unix_paths_keep_the_existing_boundary() -> None:
         "ok": False,
         "warnings": ["absolute local path"],
     }
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "token",
+    [
+        "ghp_" + "A1b2C3d4E5f6G7h8I9j0K1l2M3n4",
+        "github_pat_11ABCDEFG0" + "a1B2c3D4e5F6",
+        "AKIA" + "7Q2Z3XJ5V6N8W1PL",
+        "ASIA" + "7Q2Z3XJ5V6N8W1PL",
+        "xoxb-" + "123456789-abcdef",
+        "AIzaSyA" + "1234567890abcdefghij",
+        "sk_live_51H8" + "aBcDeFgHiJkL",
+        "npm_" + "a1B2c3D4e5F6g7H8i9J0",
+        "pypi-AgEIcHlwaS5vcmc" + "AAAAAAAAAA",
+        "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9" + ".eyJzdWIiOiIxMjM0NTY3ODkwIn0" + ".SflKxwRJSMeKKF2QT4f",
+    ],
+)
+def test_unlabeled_provider_tokens_fail_the_boundary_scan(token: str) -> None:
+    text = f"CI log fragment: pushed with {token} to the registry mirror"
+
+    assert public_safety.scan_public_boundary_text(text) == {
+        "ok": False,
+        "warnings": ["provider token"],
+    }
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "text",
+    [
+        "npm run build && npm test",
+        "gh pr list --limit 5",
+        "AWS key ids start AKIA and ASIA, then sixteen more characters",
+        "pypi- prefix alone is not a token",
+        "sk-proj-abcdefghijklmnop is an OpenAI project key shape",
+    ],
+)
+def test_ordinary_prose_and_unclaimed_shapes_stay_public(text: str) -> None:
+    assert public_safety.scan_public_boundary_text(text) == {
+        "ok": True,
+        "warnings": [],
+    }
+
+
+def test_labeled_credential_assignment_keeps_its_own_warning() -> None:
+    text = "deploy used access_token=ghp_" + "A1b2C3d4E5f6G7h8I9j0K1l2M3n4"
+
+    result = public_safety.scan_public_boundary_text(text)
+
+    assert result["ok"] is False
+    assert result["warnings"] == ["credential assignment", "provider token"]