diff --git a/.claude/rules/development.md b/.claude/rules/development.md
index 2994149..b78110a 100644
--- a/.claude/rules/development.md
+++ b/.claude/rules/development.md
@@ -92,6 +92,23 @@ status set; `TestIdentifyRealSamples::test_no_committed_fixture_reports_a_truste
 is that guard. Read a capability the stack does not have as a missing input, never as a
 negative finding.
 
+## The docs are a seam, and they drift like one
+
+`tests/test_docs_cover_the_public_surface.py` reads the live Click tree and the
+live `InvisibleOptions` dataclass and requires every knob to be NAMED in the
+user-facing pages. The code-to-code seams were already guarded and the
+code-to-docs seam was not, so it drifted exactly the way an unguarded seam does:
+`docs/cli.md` named none of `--adaptive-polish`, `--controlnet-scale`,
+`--detect/--no-detect`, `--humanize`, `--strength`, `--tile-size`,
+`--tile-overlap` or `--unsharp`, and `docs/python-api.md` named 9 of the 16
+option fields.
+
+Group option spellings by the Click PARAMETER, never by string surgery on the
+names. A boolean pair can be spelled anything -- `--strip-metadata/--keep-metadata`,
+`--keep-standard/--remove-all` -- so deriving the partner from a `--no-` prefix
+silently splits those pairs and demands both halves. Either spelling documents
+the pair.
+
 ## One measurement, one gate seam
 
 A detector is split into a trust-level-blind scan and a verdict that applies the
diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index edf46ec..1460bc8 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ Optional features and installation groups are documented in [`docs/installation.
 
 `maintain.sh` runs dependency freshness and security checks, Ruff, Pyright scoped to `src/`, and the parallel test suite. Full-project Pyright is not the project gate because the ML dependency graph can exhaust Node memory.
 
+This gate does NOT pass `--ignore-unfixed` to uv-secure, so a transitive CVE with no released fix stops it before Ruff, Pyright and the tests ever run. That is deliberate and it is not a blocker: run those three separately and report them, per the triage in [`docs/development.md`](docs/development.md). A red gate here is not the same signal as a red gate in a sibling repository that does ignore unfixed findings.
+
 Command, gate, typing, and model-test invariants auto-load from [`.claude/rules/development.md`](.claude/rules/development.md). Environment recovery, CI behavior, and fixture policy live in [`docs/development.md`](docs/development.md).
 
 Before a release, read [`docs/release-and-distribution.md`](docs/release-and-distribution.md). Treat the release as complete only after PyPI, Homebrew, the Hugging Face Space, and the ComfyUI Registry are verified; conda is not published. Keep the source-distribution public allowlist.
@@ -51,4 +53,4 @@ Topic-specific rules live in `.claude/rules/*.md` and are auto-loaded when match
 
 | File | Covers |
 |---|---|
-| `development.md` | Command contracts, project gate, typing boundaries, model-adjacent tests, and the detection-path measurement rule |
+| `development.md` | Command contracts, project gate, typing boundaries, model-adjacent tests, the docs-coverage seam, and the detection-path measurement rule |
diff --git a/docs/python-api.md b/docs/python-api.md
index 6ccbc29..d9241c5 100644
--- a/docs/python-api.md
+++ b/docs/python-api.md
@@ -146,6 +146,31 @@ engine's own parameter names and defaults. `force`, which decides whether the
 engine runs at all, is a parameter of `remove_all` and `remove_batch` alongside
 `backend` and `sensitivity`.
 
+The complete field set, with the shipped defaults:
+
+| Field | Default | Effect |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| `strength` | `None` | Denoising strength. `None` resolves per profile and vendor cohort. |
+| `pipeline` | `"qwen-zimage"` | Profile: `qwen-zimage`, `sdxl-zimage`, `chroma-zimage`, or `auto`. |
+| `vendor` | `None` | Strength cohort, and an assertion that the watermark is present. |
+| `seed` | `None` | `None` uses the certified seed 0. Removal near the floor is seed-dependent. |
+| `hf_token` | `None` | Hugging Face token for the model download; the environment and a local `.env` are read when unset. |
+| `humanize` | `0.0` | Analog film grain. 0 is off; 2.0-6.0 is the useful band. |
+| `unsharp` | `0.0` | Unsharp-mask sharpening. 0 is off. |
+| `adaptive_polish` | `None` | `None` lets the profile decide (off for `qwen-zimage`, on for `sdxl-zimage`); `True`/`False` override it. |
+| `max_resolution` | `0` | Cap the long side before diffusion. 0 keeps native geometry and the most detail. |
+| `controlnet_conditioning_scale` | `1.0` | Canny ControlNet conditioning on the global stage. Higher stays closer to the original structure and text. |
+| `cpu_offload` | `False` | Stream model components between CPU and GPU. Lower CUDA memory, slower. |
+| `tile` | `False` | Regenerate large inputs in overlapping tiles instead of downscaling. |
+| `tile_size` | `1024` | Tile side in pixels when `tile` is set. |
+| `tile_overlap` | `128` | Tile overlap in pixels. More overlap hides seams and costs time. |
+| `text_manifest` | `None` | Path to an operator-verified text manifest; see the text-restoration section. |
+| `fidelity_anchor` | `False` | Opt into the fidelity-anchor pass. |
+
+`tests/test_docs_cover_the_public_surface.py` fails when a field is added here
+and not to this table, because this seam had already drifted by eight fields
+before anything checked it.
+
 If AI metadata survives the strip, `remove_all` raises `MetadataStripIncomplete`
 **before** writing anything: an AI-readable output is worse than no output.
 
diff --git a/tests/test_docs_cover_the_public_surface.py b/tests/test_docs_cover_the_public_surface.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eb652e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_docs_cover_the_public_surface.py
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+"""The user-facing docs must name every knob the public surface actually has.
+
+The code-to-code seams are already guarded: `test_api.py` compares
+`InvisibleOptions` against the engine signature field by field, and
+`test_cli.py` drives the commands. Nothing guarded the code-to-DOCS seam, and it
+drifted exactly the way an unguarded seam does -- silently, one addition at a
+time. When this was first measured, `docs/cli.md` named none of
+`--adaptive-polish`, `--controlnet-scale`, `--detect/--no-detect`, `--humanize`,
+`--strength`, `--tile-size`, `--tile-overlap` or `--unsharp`, and
+`docs/python-api.md` named 9 of the 16 `InvisibleOptions` fields.
+
+These tests read the real Click tree and the real dataclass rather than a
+hand-kept list, so a knob added tomorrow fails here until someone documents it.
+Both accept EITHER spelling of a boolean pair: `--keep-metadata` documents
+`--strip-metadata/--keep-metadata` perfectly well, and requiring the on-form
+would force noise into the guides.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import dataclasses
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import click
+
+from remove_ai_watermarks.api import InvisibleOptions
+from remove_ai_watermarks.cli import main
+
+REPO_ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
+
+# The pages a user is sent to for command and API reference. A knob mentioned
+# only in a research-archive page is not documented for the purpose of this gate.
+CLI_PAGES = ("docs/cli.md", "README.md", "docs/installation.md")
+API_PAGES = ("docs/python-api.md", "README.md")
+
+
+def _text(pages: tuple[str, ...]) -> str:
+    return "".join((REPO_ROOT / page).read_text(encoding="utf-8") for page in pages)
+
+
+def _cli_options() -> list[tuple[str, list[str]]]:
+    """Every ``(command, spellings)`` pair in the tree.
+
+    Group by the Click parameter itself, never by string surgery on the names: a
+    boolean pair can be spelled anything (``--strip-metadata/--keep-metadata``,
+    ``--keep-standard/--remove-all``), so deriving the partner from a ``--no-``
+    prefix silently splits those pairs into two groups and demands both halves.
+    """
+    found: list[tuple[str, list[str]]] = []
+
+    def walk(command: click.Command, prefix: str = "") -> None:
+        if isinstance(command, click.Group):
+            for name, sub in sorted(command.commands.items()):
+                walk(sub, f"{prefix}{name} ")
+            return
+        for param in command.params:
+            if not isinstance(param, click.Option):
+                continue
+            names = [o for o in param.opts + param.secondary_opts if o.startswith("--")]
+            if names and names != ["--help"]:
+                found.append((prefix.strip() or "(root)", names))
+
+    walk(main)
+    return found
+
+
+def test_every_cli_option_is_named_in_the_command_docs() -> None:
+    docs = _text(CLI_PAGES)
+    undocumented = [
+        f"{command}: {' / '.join(names)}"
+        for command, names in _cli_options()
+        if not any(name in docs for name in names)
+    ]
+    assert not undocumented, (
+        "CLI options absent from " + ", ".join(CLI_PAGES) + ":\n  " + "\n  ".join(sorted(set(undocumented)))
+    )
+
+
+def test_every_invisible_option_field_is_named_in_the_api_docs() -> None:
+    docs = _text(API_PAGES)
+    fields = [f.name for f in dataclasses.fields(InvisibleOptions)]
+    assert fields, "InvisibleOptions has no fields; the guard would pass vacuously"
+    undocumented = [name for name in fields if name not in docs]
+    assert not undocumented, (
+        "InvisibleOptions fields absent from "
+        + ", ".join(API_PAGES)
+        + f": {undocumented}. Document the field or explain in python-api.md why it is internal."
+    )