diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 1d903ca..514827d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -9,12 +9,37 @@ permissions:
   contents: read
 
 jobs:
-  # Standardized org-wide required check. This repo has no automated checks, so
-  # `ok` is a trivial always-pass gate to keep branch protection uniform.
-  # See FlowMatrix-AI/eng-governance for the convention.
+  # Standardized org-wide required check; see FlowMatrix-AI/eng-governance for
+  # the convention. The tests run inside `ok` itself rather than in a job it
+  # `needs`: a required check whose dependency failed reports as skipped, and
+  # GitHub counts a skipped required check as passing.
   ok:
     name: ok
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - name: No automated checks defined
-        run: echo "ok"
+      - uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7
+
+      # Same binary version the reusable workflow scans with: read from its
+      # input default (the one Renovate tracks) rather than pinned twice.
+      - name: Install gitleaks and PyYAML
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          v=$(sed -n 's/^ *default: "\([0-9.]*\)".*/\1/p' .github/workflows/gitleaks.yml)
+          : "${v:?could not read the gitleaks version from gitleaks.yml}"
+          curl -fsSL "https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks/releases/download/v${v}/gitleaks_${v}_linux_x64.tar.gz" \
+            | tar -xz gitleaks
+          sudo mv gitleaks /usr/local/bin/gitleaks
+          gitleaks version
+          python3 -c 'import yaml' 2>/dev/null || sudo apt-get install -y -qq python3-yaml
+
+      # Every tests/*.test.sh, so a new test cannot be added and never run.
+      - name: Run tests
+        run: |
+          set -uo pipefail
+          rc=0
+          for t in tests/*.test.sh; do
+            echo "::group::$t"
+            bash "$t" || rc=1
+            echo "::endgroup::"
+          done
+          exit "$rc"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/gitleaks.yml b/.github/workflows/gitleaks.yml
index 98263ae..b0b2fa0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/gitleaks.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/gitleaks.yml
@@ -133,3 +133,57 @@ jobs:
           # secret introduced only in a merge resolution is scanned.
           gitleaks git --redact -v $cfg \
             --log-opts="--all --full-history --diff-merges=first-parent --diff-filter=tuxdb"
+
+      # gitleaks matches a token's exact shape, so a Markdown export that writes
+      # `ghp\_...` for `ghp_...` slips past the Scan above. Unescape only the
+      # ADDED lines that carry an escape and scan them again. stdin mode has no
+      # file paths, so the org [allowlist] paths do not apply here, and
+      # findings carry no commit or file; the index maps them back.
+      # !cancelled(): still report when the Scan above already failed.
+      - name: Scan markdown-escaped lines
+        if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          # stdin findings are fingerprinted by their line in this stream, which
+          # shifts with every commit, so a `:rule:line` ignore entry would
+          # silence whatever secret lands on that line next.
+          if [ -f .gitleaksignore ] && grep -q '^:' .gitleaksignore; then
+            echo "::error::.gitleaksignore has a stdin-style (:rule:line) entry; these are not stable"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          # Byte semantics. In a UTF-8 locale `.` does not match an invalid byte, so
+          # a line with a Latin-1 byte before the escape would be silently dropped.
+          # Under C, [[:punct:]] is exactly the 32 ASCII punctuation characters,
+          # the set CommonMark lets a backslash escape. The exporter's escape set
+          # has grown over time (`$`, `:`, `=` appeared later), so take all of it.
+          export LC_ALL=C
+          tmp="${RUNNER_TEMP:-$(mktemp -d)}"
+          # Keep only ADDED content lines carrying a markdown escape, and record which
+          # commit and file each came from (one index line per emitted line), so a
+          # finding's StartLine maps back to commit:path. --diff-merges=combined:
+          # without it a merge shows no diff, and content introduced only by a
+          # merge resolution (a `++` line) is never seen.
+          git log -p --all --diff-merges=combined --format='commit %H' \
+            | awk -v idx="$tmp/md-escaped.idx" '
+                /^commit [0-9a-f]+$/ { c = $2; next }
+                /^diff --(git|combined) / { hdr = 1; next }
+                hdr && /^\+\+\+ / { f = substr($0, 5); sub(/^b\//, "", f); sub(/\t$/, "", f); next }
+                /^@@/ { hdr = 0; next }
+                !hdr && /^\+.*\\[[:punct:]]/ { print; print c "\t" f > idx }
+              ' \
+            | sed -E 's/\\+([[:punct:]])/\1/g' \
+            > "$tmp/md-escaped.txt"
+          touch "$tmp/md-escaped.idx"
+          echo "markdown-escaped added lines: $(wc -l < "$tmp/md-escaped.txt")"
+          rc=0
+          gitleaks stdin --redact -v --config .gitleaks.toml \
+            --report-format json --report-path "$tmp/md-escaped.json" \
+            < "$tmp/md-escaped.txt" || rc=$?
+          if [ "$rc" -ne 0 ] && [ -s "$tmp/md-escaped.json" ]; then
+            echo "markdown-escaped findings (commit, file, rule):"
+            jq -r '.[] | "\(.StartLine)\t\(.RuleID)"' "$tmp/md-escaped.json" \
+              | while IFS=$'\t' read -r n rule; do
+                  printf '%s\t%s\n' "$(sed -n "${n}p" "$tmp/md-escaped.idx")" "$rule"
+                done
+          fi
+          exit "$rc"
diff --git a/tests/gitleaks-md-escaped.test.sh b/tests/gitleaks-md-escaped.test.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fc2f6b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/gitleaks-md-escaped.test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Runs the exact "Scan markdown-escaped lines" run: block from gitleaks.yml
+# against throwaway git repos, under the shell GitHub uses for `run:`.
+# Needs python3 with PyYAML and gitleaks on PATH.
+# Usage: bash tests/gitleaks-md-escaped.test.sh [workflow] [org-config]
+#
+# Token-shaped strings are assembled at runtime and never written to this file:
+# the stdin pass cannot apply the org [allowlist] paths, so a literal escaped
+# token in tests/ would fail this repo's own scan.
+set -uo pipefail
+HERE="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"
+WF="${1:-$HERE/../.github/workflows/gitleaks.yml}"
+ORG="${2:-$HERE/../.gitleaks.toml}"
+T="$(mktemp -d)"
+[ -n "${KEEP:-}" ] || trap 'rm -rf "$T"' EXIT; [ -n "${KEEP:-}" ] && echo "T=$T"
+python3 -c "
+import yaml,sys
+steps=yaml.safe_load(open(sys.argv[1]))['jobs']['scan']['steps']
+print(next(s['run'] for s in steps if s.get('name')=='Scan markdown-escaped lines'))" "$WF" > "$T/step.sh" || exit 1
+
+rnd() { python3 -c "import secrets,string;print(''.join(secrets.choice(string.ascii_letters+string.digits) for _ in range($1)))"; }
+PAT="ghp""_$(rnd 36)"          # plain; gitleaks git already catches this
+ESC="${PAT/_/\\_}"             # what a Drive markdown export writes
+
+mk() { # dir
+  git init -q -b main "$1"
+  git -C "$1" -c user.email=t@example.com -c user.name=t commit -q --allow-empty -m base
+  cp "$ORG" "$1/.gitleaks.org.toml"
+}
+put() { # dir path content
+  mkdir -p "$(dirname "$1/$2")"; printf '%b' "$3" > "$1/$2"
+  git -C "$1" add -- "$2"; git -C "$1" -c user.email=t@example.com -c user.name=t commit -q -m "add $2"
+}
+run() { # name dir expect [grep-for-in-output]
+  local out rc
+  [ -f "$2/.gitleaks.toml" ] || cp "$2/.gitleaks.org.toml" "$2/.gitleaks.toml"
+  out=$(cd "$2" && LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 RUNNER_TEMP="$(mktemp -d -p "$T")" bash --noprofile --norc -eo pipefail "$T/step.sh" 2>&1); rc=$?
+  local ok=1
+  { [ "$3" = pass ] && [ $rc -eq 0 ]; } || { [ "$3" = fail ] && [ $rc -ne 0 ]; } || ok=0
+  [ -n "${4:-}" ] && ! printf '%s' "$out" | grep -qF -- "$4" && ok=0
+  printf '%s' "$out" | grep -qF -- "${PAT#ghp_}" && { ok=0; echo "  secret value reached the log"; }
+  if [ $ok = 1 ]; then echo "ok   - $1 (exit $rc)"; else echo "FAIL - $1 (exit $rc, wanted $3${4:+, output naming '$4'})"; echo "$out" | tail -15; FAILED=1; fi
+}
+FAILED=0
+
+mk "$T/a"; put "$T/a" README.md 'nothing escaped here\n'
+run "no escaped lines at all passes (grep exit 1 tolerated)" "$T/a" pass
+
+mk "$T/b"; put "$T/b" README.md 'a\\_b and \\*c\\*\n'
+run "escapes without a secret pass" "$T/b" pass
+
+mk "$T/c"; put "$T/c" "docs/sub dir/notes.md" "PAT: $ESC\n"
+run "escaped token fails and names the file" "$T/c" fail "docs/sub dir/notes.md"
+
+mk "$T/d"; put "$T/d" notes.md "caf\xe9 PAT: $ESC\n"
+run "escaped token on a non-UTF-8 line fails" "$T/d" fail notes.md
+
+# One commit, so the diff order is fixed by path: data.txt (NUL past git's
+# 8000-byte binary probe, so it diffs as text) streams before late.md.
+mk "$T/e"; printf 'PAT: %s\n' "$ESC" > "$T/e/late.md"
+python3 -c "import sys;open(sys.argv[1],'wb').write(b'x\\\\_y\n'*2000+b'nul\x00here\n')" "$T/e/data.txt"
+git -C "$T/e" add .; git -C "$T/e" -c user.email=t@example.com -c user.name=t commit -q -m nul
+run "a NUL earlier in the stream does not hide a later token" "$T/e" fail late.md
+
+mk "$T/f"; git -C "$T/f" checkout -q -b side; put "$T/f" side.md "PAT: $ESC\n"; git -C "$T/f" checkout -q main
+run "escaped token on a non-HEAD branch fails" "$T/f" fail side.md
+
+mk "$T/g"; put "$T/g" gone.md "PAT: $ESC\n"; git -C "$T/g" rm -q gone.md
+git -C "$T/g" -c user.email=t@example.com -c user.name=t commit -q -m rm
+run "escaped token deleted from HEAD still fails" "$T/g" fail gone.md
+
+mk "$T/h"; printf '[extend]\npath = ".gitleaks.org.toml"\n' > "$T/h/.gitleaks.toml"
+put "$T/h" notes.md "PAT: $ESC\n"
+run "repo-local config extending the org config still detects" "$T/h" fail notes.md
+
+mk "$T/i"; printf 'not toml [[[\n' > "$T/i/.gitleaks.toml"; put "$T/i" notes.md 'a\\_b\n'
+run "an unloadable config fails closed" "$T/i" fail
+
+# Escapes outside the original class: Drive writes `\=` and `\:` too.
+KEY="$(rnd 32)"
+# `\=` must be the line's only escape, or a narrower prefilter still passes it.
+mk "$T/j"; put "$T/j" cfg.md "password \\= $KEY\n"
+run "escaped assignment (\\=) with a generic secret fails" "$T/j" fail cfg.md
+
+mk "$T/k"; put "$T/k" notes.md "PAT: ${PAT/_/\\\\\\\\_}\n"
+run "double-escaped token fails" "$T/k" fail notes.md
+
+# A token introduced only by a merge resolution, in neither parent.
+mk "$T/l"; put "$T/l" m.md 'base\n'
+git -C "$T/l" checkout -q -b side; put "$T/l" s.md 'side\n'; git -C "$T/l" checkout -q main
+put "$T/l" n.md 'main\n'
+git -C "$T/l" -c user.email=t@example.com -c user.name=t merge -q --no-commit side >/dev/null 2>&1
+printf "PAT: %s\n" "$ESC" >> "$T/l/m.md"; git -C "$T/l" add m.md
+git -C "$T/l" -c user.email=t@example.com -c user.name=t commit -q -m "evil merge"
+run "escaped token introduced only in a merge fails" "$T/l" fail m.md
+
+mk "$T/m"; printf ':github-pat:1\n' > "$T/m/.gitleaksignore"; put "$T/m" README.md 'clean\n'
+run "a stdin-style .gitleaksignore entry is refused" "$T/m" fail "stdin-style"
+
+exit $FAILED