diff --git a/changelog.d/gst-1130-fix-check-range.md b/changelog.d/gst-1130-fix-check-range.md
index 2028961bd..61696bc92 100644
--- a/changelog.d/gst-1130-fix-check-range.md
+++ b/changelog.d/gst-1130-fix-check-range.md
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 **A granted fix-check's clean read now counts at Step 16.** On gstack-evals#168 the owner granted one scoped fix-check, the reader read `9b0c56c..7ea1907` and found nothing, and `gstack-ship-release finish` still stopped with `STOP: behavior, tests or build inputs changed since review (tests/panel-kit-v3-1.test.ts)`, sending the test file the fix-check had read back through Steps 5 to 11.5. The review-loop exception could not help, because it is the owner accepting unreviewed edits and it never accepts a gate-edited test. The fix-check row also read `UNVERIFIED`, because it was logged without its `completed` and `converged` fields (GST-1130, GEVA-218).
 
 ### Fixed
-- **`gstack-ship-release finish`** reads the newest `review-fix-check` row. When the row is a completed clean read on committed content and its `range_base` is a branch commit holding the reviewed tree, every code or test path inside that range that is unchanged since routes as `fix_checked=` on the `ROUTE:` line, with a `FIX_CHECK: reviewed <paths>` line. That includes a gate-edited test. Authored docs still get the plan-item recheck, and a path edited after the fix-check still stops. A row that does not qualify prints `FIX_CHECK: not counted (<reason>)` and changes nothing.
+- **`gstack-ship-release finish`** reads the newest `review-fix-check` row. When the row is a completed clean read on committed content its `range_base` is a branch commit holding the reviewed tree, and the owner's recorded `review_loop_grant` names a stop head inside that range, every code or test path inside that range that is unchanged since routes as `fix_checked=` on the `ROUTE:` line, with a `FIX_CHECK: reviewed <paths>` line. That includes a gate-edited test. Authored docs still get the plan-item recheck, and a path edited after the fix-check still stops. A row that does not qualify prints `FIX_CHECK: not counted (<reason>)` and changes nothing.
 - **`gstack-review-log`** refuses a `review-fix-check` row that does not carry `completed` and `converged` as true or false, and keeps the start token for the retry. The refusal names the missing fields, so the row is fixed when it is written instead of reading `UNVERIFIED` at Step 11.5.
 
 ### Tests
-- `test/ship-rereview-triggers.test.ts`: a fixture shaped like gstack-evals#168 (a round-2 pass, then a fix commit that edits the source and a gate-edited test) stops on main and passes finish once a clean fix-check row with its range base is logged through the real `gstack-review-log`. Negative controls: an edit after the fix-check still stops, and an incomplete row, a row with no range base, a range base that does not hold the reviewed tree, or a row logged on uncommitted content is not counted.
+- `test/ship-rereview-triggers.test.ts`: a fixture shaped like gstack-evals#168 (a round-2 pass, then a fix commit that edits the source and a gate-edited test) stops on main and passes finish once a clean fix-check row with its range base is logged through the real `gstack-review-log`. Negative controls: an edit after the fix-check still stops, and an ungranted row, a grant for another stop head, an incomplete row, a row with no range base, a range base that does not hold the reviewed tree, or a row logged on uncommitted content is not counted.
 - `test/review-log-findings.test.ts`: a `review-fix-check` row missing either field, or with a non-boolean value, is refused and keeps its start token; the complete row binds as verified.
diff --git a/docs/review-policy.md b/docs/review-policy.md
index a432fdf91..4bc36fccb 100644
--- a/docs/review-policy.md
+++ b/docs/review-policy.md
@@ -496,8 +496,9 @@ too large for the scoped review, and without the record nothing changes.
 A completed fix-check is a review, not an owner acceptance (GST-1130). Finish
 reads the newest `review-fix-check` row from `gstack-review-read`. When it is a
 completed clean read on committed content (freshness `CURRENT` against its own
-tree) whose commit is on the branch and whose `range_base` is a branch commit
-holding the reviewed tree, each code or test path inside `range_base..commit`
+tree) whose commit is on the branch, whose `range_base` is a branch commit
+holding the reviewed tree, and for which an approved `review_loop_grant` in
+`gstack-approvals` names a stop head inside `range_base..commit`, each code or test path inside `range_base..commit`
 that is unchanged since routes as `fix_checked=` in `ROUTE:` and is listed on a
 `FIX_CHECK: reviewed` line, a gate-edited test included. Authored docs keep the
 stage 2.2 recheck, and a path edited after the fix-check still routes by the
diff --git a/lib/ship-release.ts b/lib/ship-release.ts
index fcf13475f..f2773d038 100644
--- a/lib/ship-release.ts
+++ b/lib/ship-release.ts
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import { mergeChangelogs, normalizeChangelog } from './changelog-check';
 import { versionAtRef } from './restamp';
 import { classifyPath } from './review-depth';
 import { comparePath, contextPacket, gateEditedPaths, isTestCode, PACKET_SECTION_CAP, readScopedReview, touchedPaths, type PatchSides } from './ship-patch';
+import { locate, readRecord } from './approval-record';
 import { reviewFreshness } from './review-evidence';
 import { parseReviewLoopException, type ReviewLoopException } from './ship-receipt-depth';
 import { parseReceiptDocs, type ReceiptDocs } from './ship-receipt-docs';
@@ -164,8 +165,9 @@ function commitRelease(cwd: string, release: string[], trailer: string | undefin
 /**
  * Step 16 stage 2's route. With --reviewed-base, a path whose branch patch is the reviewed one counts as base (lib/ship-patch.ts).
  * A code or test path the newest completed clean review-fix-check row read (inside its range_base..commit range, where
- * range_base holds the reviewed tree, and unchanged since) counts as fix_checked: a granted fix-check after Step 11 is a review
- * (GST-1130). Authored docs keep the stage 2.2 recheck.
+ * range_base holds the reviewed tree, and unchanged since) counts as fix_checked when an approved review_loop_grant names a stop
+ * head inside range_base..commit: the owner's granted fix-check after Step 11 is a review (GST-1130). Authored docs keep the
+ * stage 2.2 recheck.
  */
 type Routed = Record<'behavior' | 'docs' | 'metadata' | 'tests' | 'base' | 'context' | 'accepted' | 'fix_checked', string[]>;
 function route(cwd: string, base: string, reviewed: string, reviewedBase: string | undefined, release: string[], opts: { docsRechecked: boolean; contextReviewed?: string; loop?: ReviewLoopException }, r: Report): Routed | null {
@@ -208,10 +210,15 @@ function route(cwd: string, base: string, reviewed: string, reviewedBase: string
   const onBranch = (c: string) => !!c && git(cwd, ['merge-base', '--is-ancestor', c, 'HEAD']).status === 0;
   const fixCommit = commitOf(fixRow?.commit_full), fixFrom = commitOf(fixRow?.range_base);
   const fresh = fixRow && reviewFreshness(fixRow, fixRow.wtree);
+  const ancestor = (a: string, d: string) => git(cwd, ['merge-base', '--is-ancestor', a, d]).status === 0;
+  const grants = fixRow ? (loc => 'file' in loc ? readRecord(loc).rows : [])(locate({ cwd, env: process.env })) : [];
+  const grant = grants.find(g => g.outcome === 'approved' && `${g.ask} ${g.scope}`.includes('review_loop_grant')
+    && (`${g.ask} ${g.scope}`.match(/\b[0-9a-f]{7,40}\b/g) ?? []).some(s => { const c = commitOf(s); return !!c && !!fixFrom && !!fixCommit && ancestor(fixFrom, c) && ancestor(c, fixCommit); }));
   const notCounted = !fixRow ? '' : fresh?.status !== 'CURRENT' ? fresh?.reason ?? 'not a review row'
     : fixRow.tree !== fixRow.wtree || !onBranch(fixCommit) ? 'the row was logged on content no branch commit holds'
     : !onBranch(fixFrom) ? 'the row names no range_base commit on this branch'
-    : git(cwd, ['rev-parse', `${fixFrom}^{tree}`]).stdout.trim() !== reviewed ? `range_base ${fixFrom.slice(0, 12)} does not hold the reviewed tree` : '';
+    : git(cwd, ['rev-parse', `${fixFrom}^{tree}`]).stdout.trim() !== reviewed ? `range_base ${fixFrom.slice(0, 12)} does not hold the reviewed tree`
+    : !grant ? 'no approved review_loop_grant names a stop head inside its range_base..commit' : '';
   if (notCounted) r.add(`FIX_CHECK: not counted (${notCounted})`);
   const counted = !!fixRow && !notCounted;
   if (counted) {
@@ -219,7 +226,7 @@ function route(cwd: string, base: string, reviewed: string, reviewedBase: string
     if (!range || !after) { r.stop(`git could not diff the fix-check range ${fixFrom.slice(0, 12)}..${fixCommit.slice(0, 12)} against the reviewed and current trees: stage 2 is blocked`); return null; }
     by.fix_checked = [...by.behavior, ...by.tests, ...by.context].filter(p => range.has(p) && !after.has(p)).sort();
     for (const k of ['behavior', 'tests', 'context'] as const) by[k] = by[k].filter(p => !by.fix_checked.includes(p));
-    r.add(`FIX_CHECK: reviewed ${by.fix_checked.length ? short(by.fix_checked) : 'none'} (fix-check at ${fixCommit.slice(0, 12)}, range from ${fixFrom.slice(0, 12)})`);
+    r.add(`FIX_CHECK: reviewed ${by.fix_checked.length ? short(by.fix_checked) : 'none'} (fix-check at ${fixCommit.slice(0, 12)}, range from ${fixFrom.slice(0, 12)}, grant ${grant!.id})`);
   }
   const loop = opts.loop;
   if (loop) {
diff --git a/test/ship-rereview-triggers.test.ts b/test/ship-rereview-triggers.test.ts
index 6507a4461..006acc394 100644
--- a/test/ship-rereview-triggers.test.ts
+++ b/test/ship-rereview-triggers.test.ts
@@ -752,6 +752,11 @@ describe('finish after a completed fix-check (GST-1130, GEVA-218)', () => {
     expect(start.status).toBe(0);
     return f.run(path.join(BIN, 'gstack-review-log'), [JSON.stringify({ skill: 'review-fix-check', timestamp: '2026-11-02T00:00:00Z', via: 'ship', review_scope: 'frozen', status: 'clean', issues_found: 0, critical: 0, ...row }), '--finish', start.stdout.trim()]);
   };
+  const grant = (f: ShipFx, stopHead: string) => {
+    const a = f.run(path.join(BIN, 'gstack-approvals'), ['add', '--ask', `Owner grant: one scoped fix-check after round 2 (review_loop_grant ${stopHead.slice(0, 12)})`, '--words', 'one scoped fix-check after round 2', '--by', 'GStack Minder', '--scope', 'this /ship invocation', '--json'], { GSTACK_APPROVALS_MIRROR: '0' });
+    expect(a.status).toBe(0);
+    return JSON.parse(a.stdout).added[0] as string;
+  };
   const afterFixCheck = () => {
     const f = fx({ 'src/x.ts': 'export const x = 1;\n' }, { 'src/x.ts': 'export const x = 2;\n', 'test/x.test.ts': TEST_V1 });
     const passHead = f.git('rev-parse', 'HEAD').stdout.trim();
@@ -764,9 +769,10 @@ describe('finish after a completed fix-check (GST-1130, GEVA-218)', () => {
     const { f, passHead, fixHead, reviewed, post } = afterFixCheck();
     const plain = finish(f, reviewed, post);
     expect([plain.status, plain.stdout.includes('STOP: behavior, tests or build inputs changed since review (src/x.ts,test/x.test.ts)')]).toEqual([3, true]);
+    const id = grant(f, passHead);
     expect(logFixCheck(f, { completed: true, converged: true, range_base: passHead }).status).toBe(0);
     const r = finish(f, reviewed, post);
-    expect(lineOf(r.stdout, 'FIX_CHECK')).toBe(`FIX_CHECK: reviewed src/x.ts,test/x.test.ts (fix-check at ${fixHead.slice(0, 12)}, range from ${passHead.slice(0, 12)})`);
+    expect(lineOf(r.stdout, 'FIX_CHECK')).toBe(`FIX_CHECK: reviewed src/x.ts,test/x.test.ts (fix-check at ${fixHead.slice(0, 12)}, range from ${passHead.slice(0, 12)}, grant ${id})`);
     expect(lineOf(r.stdout, 'ROUTE')).toMatch(/ behavior=0 docs=0 metadata=0 tests=0 base=unknown context=0 fix_checked=2$/);
     expect([r.status, lineOf(r.stdout, 'EVIDENCE')]).toEqual([0, expect.stringMatching(/^EVIDENCE: FRESH label=tests /)]);
     f.write({ 'src/x.ts': 'export const x = 4;\n' }); f.commit('an edit after the fix-check');
@@ -775,6 +781,17 @@ describe('finish after a completed fix-check (GST-1130, GEVA-218)', () => {
     expect([late.status, late.stdout.includes('STOP: behavior, tests or build inputs changed since review (src/x.ts)')]).toEqual([3, true]);
   });
 
+  test('a clean fix-check row with no recorded review_loop_grant for a stop head in its range is not counted', () => {
+    const { f, passHead, reviewed, post } = afterFixCheck();
+    expect(logFixCheck(f, { completed: true, converged: true, range_base: passHead }).status).toBe(0);
+    const ungranted = finish(f, reviewed, post);
+    expect(lineOf(ungranted.stdout, 'FIX_CHECK')).toBe('FIX_CHECK: not counted (no approved review_loop_grant names a stop head inside its range_base..commit)');
+    expect([ungranted.status, ungranted.stdout.includes('STOP: behavior, tests or build inputs changed since review (src/x.ts,test/x.test.ts)')]).toEqual([3, true]);
+    grant(f, mergeBase(f));
+    const elsewhere = finish(f, reviewed, post);
+    expect([elsewhere.status, lineOf(elsewhere.stdout, 'FIX_CHECK')]).toEqual([3, 'FIX_CHECK: not counted (no approved review_loop_grant names a stop head inside its range_base..commit)']);
+  });
+
   test('a fix-check row that did not finish clean, or names no range base, is not counted', () => {
     const { f, passHead, reviewed, post } = afterFixCheck();
     expect(logFixCheck(f, { completed: false, converged: false, range_base: passHead }).status).toBe(0);