diff --git a/docs/capy-install.md b/docs/capy-install.md
index 1477f21e7..8ad45c445 100644
--- a/docs/capy-install.md
+++ b/docs/capy-install.md
@@ -344,9 +344,12 @@ values landed in its tool output. Never `export $(...)`, `env`, `printenv`, a
 bare `set` or a bare `export` in a tool fence (`test/launch-env-echo-ratchet.test.ts`
 keeps them out of every skill fence and shell helper), and the redaction
 engine now refuses the VALUE of any `*_KEY`, `*_TOKEN`, `*_SECRET`,
-`*_PASSWORD` or `*_PASSWD` variable in the writer's environment (any case;
-names carrying a `PUBLIC` word are framework-public and exempt) (`env.value`,
-HIGH), so a leaked value cannot reach a PR body, receipt, report or Drive file.
+`*_PASSWORD`, `*_PASSWD`, `*_PASS`, `*_PAT`, `*_APIKEY` or `*_PWD` variable
+in the writer's environment (any case; names carrying a `PUBLIC` word are
+framework-public and exempt, gstack's own `GSTACK_BRAIN_LOCK_TOKEN` is not a
+secret, and a value that is a filesystem path names where the credential lives
+rather than the credential) (`env.value`, HIGH), so a leaked value cannot reach
+a PR body, receipt, report or Drive file.
 
 `PATH=<dir>:$PATH` and `GSTACK_LAUNCH_PATH` appear only when the certified Bun,
 or the project's resolved Node, is not first on PATH (older Capy images ship
diff --git a/lib/redact-engine.ts b/lib/redact-engine.ts
index 702bd2be5..d3e39ece9 100644
--- a/lib/redact-engine.ts
+++ b/lib/redact-engine.ts
@@ -79,8 +79,9 @@ export interface ScanOptions {
   sourcePath?: string;
   /**
    * The environment whose credential-named variables (a name whose last
-   * `_`-separated word is KEY, TOKEN, SECRET, PASSWORD or PASSWD, any case,
-   * and that carries no PUBLIC word) are scanned for BY VALUE: wherever one of those
+   * `_`-separated word is KEY, TOKEN, SECRET, PASSWORD, PASSWD, PASS, PAT or
+   * APIKEY, or that ends in _PWD, any case, carrying no PUBLIC word; see
+   * `credentialEnvValues`) are scanned for BY VALUE: wherever one of those
    * values appears in the text it is an `env.value` HIGH finding, whatever its
    * shape, so a value that reached the text (a dumped environment in a tool
    * output, GSTA-96) never reaches a PR body, receipt, report or Drive file.
@@ -518,25 +519,31 @@ function scanInternal(input: string, opts: ScanOptions, spans?: Map<Finding, Ori
   return { findings, counts, repoVisibility, oversize: false };
 }
 
-const CREDENTIAL_ENV_NAME = /(^|_)(KEY|TOKEN|SECRET|PASSWORD|PASSWD)$/i;
+const CREDENTIAL_ENV_NAME = /(^|_)(KEY|TOKEN|SECRET|PASSWORD|PASSWD|PASS|PAT|APIKEY)$|_PWD$/i;
 /** Framework-public keys (NEXT_PUBLIC_*_KEY, VITE_PUBLIC_*, *_PUBLIC_KEY) are committed on purpose. */
 const PUBLIC_ENV_NAME = /(^|_)PUBLIC(_|$)/i;
+/** gstack's own credential-named variables whose values are not secrets. */
+const NON_SECRET_ENV_NAMES = new Set(["GSTACK_BRAIN_LOCK_TOKEN"]);
+/** A credential-named variable holding a filesystem path names where the credential lives, not the credential. */
+const PATH_VALUE = /^(~?\/[^\s]*\/[^\s]*|[A-Za-z]:\\[^\s]*)$/;
 const MIN_ENV_VALUE_LENGTH = 8;
 
 /**
  * The (name, value) pairs of `env` worth scanning for by value: credential-named
- * variables whose trimmed value is long enough to be a credential and is not a
- * placeholder. A short or placeholder value would match ordinary prose. The
- * value is trimmed, so a key read from a file with a trailing newline still
- * matches its leaked form.
+ * variables (the last `_`-separated word is KEY, TOKEN, SECRET, PASSWORD, PASSWD,
+ * PASS, PAT or APIKEY, or the name ends in _PWD; names carrying a PUBLIC word and
+ * gstack's own non-secret tokens are exempt) whose trimmed value is long enough to
+ * be a credential, is not a placeholder and is not a filesystem path. A short or
+ * placeholder value would match ordinary prose. The value is trimmed, so a key
+ * read from a file with a trailing newline still matches its leaked form.
  */
 export function credentialEnvValues(env: Record<string, string | undefined>): Array<{ name: string; value: string }> {
   const out: Array<{ name: string; value: string }> = [];
   for (const [name, raw] of Object.entries(env)) {
-    if (!CREDENTIAL_ENV_NAME.test(name) || PUBLIC_ENV_NAME.test(name)) continue;
+    if (!CREDENTIAL_ENV_NAME.test(name) || PUBLIC_ENV_NAME.test(name) || NON_SECRET_ENV_NAMES.has(name)) continue;
     const value = raw?.trim() ?? "";
     if (value.length < MIN_ENV_VALUE_LENGTH) continue;
-    if (isPlaceholderSpan(value)) continue;
+    if (isPlaceholderSpan(value) || PATH_VALUE.test(value)) continue;
     out.push({ name, value });
   }
   return out;
diff --git a/test/redact-env-value.test.ts b/test/redact-env-value.test.ts
index a27ab7c48..7282f7ecb 100644
--- a/test/redact-env-value.test.ts
+++ b/test/redact-env-value.test.ts
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ const dbPasswdValue = "passwd-passwd-passwd";
 const lowerCaseValue = "lower-case-name-value";
 const monkeyValue = "banana-banana-banana";
 const tokenizerValue = "tokenizer-value-here";
+const sslKeyPath = "/etc/ssl/private/x.key";
+const winKeyPath = "C:\\Users\\me\\key.pem";
+const homeKeyPath = "~/.ssh/id_key";
+const lockOwner = ["12345", "6789", "17"].join("-");
 
 const env = {
   ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: anthropicValue,
@@ -139,6 +143,23 @@ describe("env-value scan", () => {
     expect(credentialEnvValues({ PUBLICITY_KEY: monkeyValue }).map(e => e.name)).toEqual(["PUBLICITY_KEY"]);
   });
 
+  // /ship Step 11 adversarial fixes: (1) the name rule also admits *_PASS, *_PAT, *_APIKEY and *_PWD,
+  // while the shell's own PWD and OLDPWD stay out; (2) a credential-named variable whose value is a
+  // filesystem path (SSL_KEY=/etc/ssl/private/x.key) names where the credential lives, so the path
+  // is not a finding; (3) gstack's own GSTACK_BRAIN_LOCK_TOKEN (pid-random-epoch, written to the lock
+  // owner file) is not a secret. fails_when: PWD is admitted (every mention of the cwd becomes HIGH),
+  // the path rule goes, or the non-secret set loses the lock token.
+  test("more credential suffixes, path values and gstack's own lock token", () => {
+    const names = credentialEnvValues({
+      DB_PASS: dbValue, GITHUB_PAT: ghValue, STRIPE_APIKEY: lowerCaseValue, MYSQL_PWD: dbPasswdValue,
+      PWD: "/workspace/gstack", OLDPWD: "/workspace/other",
+      SSL_KEY: sslKeyPath, WIN_KEY: winKeyPath, HOME_KEY: homeKeyPath,
+      GSTACK_BRAIN_LOCK_TOKEN: lockOwner,
+    }).map(e => e.name).sort();
+    expect(names).toEqual(["DB_PASS", "GITHUB_PAT", "MYSQL_PWD", "STRIPE_APIKEY"]);
+    expect(credentialEnvValues({ SLASH_KEY: "/abc12345-no-second-slash" }).map(e => e.name)).toEqual(["SLASH_KEY"]);
+  });
+
   test("the default environment is process.env", () => {
     const name = "GSTA104_TEST_TOKEN";
     process.env[name] = "v4lue-only-this-test-knows";