diff --git a/test/helpers/qa-callers-fixture.ts b/test/helpers/qa-callers-fixture.ts
index d78def29d..eb4828ccc 100644
--- a/test/helpers/qa-callers-fixture.ts
+++ b/test/helpers/qa-callers-fixture.ts
@@ -416,6 +416,9 @@ export function validateCallerEvidence(input: {
     probes: checkpointProbes, requiredProbes: checkpointProbes.slice(1),
     additionalTargets: expiredTargets,
     files: input.checkpointFiles, reportMarkdown: input.reportMarkdown,
+    // An installed review-log record cites checkpoints in its findings' evidence.
+    citesCheckpointsOnly: command => /^\S*\/gstack-review-log '/.test(command.trim())
+      && qaCallerCommandAllowed(command, input.workflowCommands, deadline),
   }));
   const selected = input.receipt.probes.map(id => input.probes.find(probe => probe.id === id));
   if (selected.some(probe => !probe)) errors.push('receipt references an unobserved probe');
diff --git a/test/helpers/qa-checkpoint-evidence.ts b/test/helpers/qa-checkpoint-evidence.ts
index c19501e14..116960637 100644
--- a/test/helpers/qa-checkpoint-evidence.ts
+++ b/test/helpers/qa-checkpoint-evidence.ts
@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ export function validateQACheckpoints(input: {
   files: Record<string, string>;
   reportMarkdown: string;
   producer?: QaEvidenceContext;
+  /** Caller-authorized Bash that names checkpoints only as evidence citations, never as files to read or write. */
+  citesCheckpointsOnly?: (command: string) => boolean;
 }): string[] {
   const failures: string[] = [];
   let disk: Record<string, string>;
@@ -181,7 +183,8 @@ export function validateQACheckpoints(input: {
       attempted = path.join(input.reportRoot, name);
       content = disk[name];
     }
-    if (call.name === 'Bash' && producerCommand?.action !== 'checkpoint' && typeof call.input.command === 'string' && /exploration-\d+\.json/.test(call.input.command)) {
+    if (call.name === 'Bash' && producerCommand?.action !== 'checkpoint' && typeof call.input.command === 'string' && /exploration-\d+\.json/.test(call.input.command)
+      && !input.citesCheckpointsOnly?.(call.input.command)) {
       failures.push('Unsupported checkpoint Bash interaction');
     }
     if (typeof attempted !== 'string' || !path.basename(attempted).startsWith('exploration-')) continue;
diff --git a/test/qa-exploratory-callers.test.ts b/test/qa-exploratory-callers.test.ts
index f543b7b05..ca33aa284 100644
--- a/test/qa-exploratory-callers.test.ts
+++ b/test/qa-exploratory-callers.test.ts
@@ -130,6 +130,11 @@ describe('caller native-event observer controls', () => {
     expect(errorsFor(record('blocked'))).toEqual(['review record status outside the review vocabulary: blocked']);
     expect(errorsFor(record('issues_found'))).toEqual([]);
     expect(errorsFor(record('unavailable'))).toEqual(['review record status outside the review vocabulary: unavailable']);
+    // ci-36907899270-1-eval-slices-6: an accepted record whose finding cites checkpoints as evidence.
+    const cited = record('issues_found').replace('"action":"ask-pending"}', '"action":"ask-pending","evidence":["reports/exploration-002.json","reports/exploration-003.json"]}');
+    expect(cited).not.toBe(record('issues_found'));
+    expect(errorsFor(cited)).toEqual([]);
+    expect(errorsFor(`bun ${cited}`)).toEqual(['command outside declared caller observation interface', 'QA checkpoint: Unsupported checkpoint Bash interaction']);
     expect(errorsFor(record('unavailable'), 'ship').filter(error => error.includes('vocabulary'))).toEqual([]);
     expect(errorsFor(generatedReviewRecord('/runtime/bin/gstack-review-log', 'native-token').replace('"status":"clean"', '"status":"blocked"'))).toEqual([]);
     const prompt = (id: 'review-exploratory-small-cli' | 'ship-exploratory-small-cli') => {