diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index a323e9d0..b7a7babe 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
     "dev": "bun run ./src/cli/index.tsx",
     "check:package-secrets": "bun run scripts/check-package-secrets.ts",
     "typecheck": "tsc --noEmit && tsc -p tsconfig.social.json --noEmit",
-    "test": "bun test",
+    "test": "bun run build && bun test",
     "secrets:scan:npmrc": "bun run scripts/scan-npmrc-auth.mjs",
     "sdk:build": "cd sdk && bun run build",
     "prepublishOnly": "bun run secrets:scan:npmrc && bun run check:package-secrets && bun run build && bun test"
diff --git a/scripts/check-package-secrets.test.ts b/scripts/check-package-secrets.test.ts
index f2fc2bbf..2e6b6791 100644
--- a/scripts/check-package-secrets.test.ts
+++ b/scripts/check-package-secrets.test.ts
@@ -50,6 +50,51 @@ describe("deployment-identifier rules — the guard must be able to FIRE", () =>
     expect(findings.map((f) => f.rule)).toEqual(["deployment-resource-name"]);
   });
 
+  // BOTH ARITIES, each against a negative control that differs ONLY in the
+  // resource-kind word.
+  //
+  // The house standard writes the pattern as `<workload>-<env>-<component>[-<role>]`
+  // — the role segment is bracketed, so ONE component is the documented default
+  // and two is the variant. An earlier revision of this rule required two or
+  // more, which exempted the default; measured against the standard's own worked
+  // examples, 9 of its 18 distinct convention-shaped names were single-component
+  // and none of them matched.
+  //
+  // The paired negative controls are the load-bearing half. Fixing the arity gap
+  // meant loosening the name shape, and the obvious way to get that wrong is to
+  // let the rule decay into "any hyphenated name containing an environment-looking
+  // segment" — measured at 67 matches across 30 files, overwhelmingly false, and
+  // unusable. Asserting the positive alone cannot catch that decay, because a
+  // rule with no second signal still passes every positive. Each control below is
+  // the same line with only the resource-kind word swapped out, so the pair fails
+  // if either the arity fix or the two-signal design regresses.
+  test("fires on BOTH arities, and stays silent when only the kind word is removed", () => {
+    const row = (kind: string, name: string) => `| ${kind} | \`${name}\` |`;
+
+    for (const name of [SENTINEL_SINGLE_COMPONENT, SENTINEL_NAME]) {
+      expect(scanDeploymentIdentifiers("x.md", [row("S3 Bucket", name)]).map((f) => f.rule)).toEqual([
+        "deployment-resource-name",
+      ]);
+      expect(scanDeploymentIdentifiers("x.md", [row("Label", name)])).toEqual([]);
+    }
+  });
+
+  test("flags the single-component form end to end, through file selection", () => {
+    // Through scanPaths rather than the matcher alone, so the regression covers
+    // the whole path a real publish would take — selection, read, then rule —
+    // rather than only the last step of it. The bypass this closes was reachable
+    // precisely because all three had to line up.
+    const { paths } = makeTree({
+      "README.md": `| EC2 Instance | \`${SENTINEL_SINGLE_COMPONENT}\` |`,
+      "Makefile": `EC2_HOST ?= ${SENTINEL_SINGLE_COMPONENT}`,
+    });
+
+    const { findings, scanned } = scanPaths(paths);
+
+    expect(scanned).toBe(2);
+    expect(findings.map((f) => f.rule)).toEqual(["deployment-resource-name", "deployment-resource-name"]);
+  });
+
   test("flags the naming TEMPLATE, not only concrete names", () => {
     // Publishing the pattern makes every sibling resource's name derivable, so
     // scrubbing concrete names alone would leave the disclosure intact.
diff --git a/scripts/check-package-secrets.ts b/scripts/check-package-secrets.ts
index 4ef79bf1..4a8a7313 100644
--- a/scripts/check-package-secrets.ts
+++ b/scripts/check-package-secrets.ts
@@ -378,14 +378,28 @@ const { findings, scanned, symlinks, absent } = scanPaths(filesToScan());
 const symlinkNote = symlinks > 0 ? `, ${symlinks} symlink(s) skipped` : "";
 const absentNote = absent > 0 ? `, ${absent} listed-but-absent path(s) skipped` : "";
 
+// The file census is emitted on BOTH the pass and the fail path, and that is
+// deliberate rather than tidiness.
+//
+// This script's CI step is named "Package-manager secret guard", and that name
+// read identically before and after the scan was widened from a basename
+// allow-list to the whole text tree. So a green step on a tree that still
+// carries an exposure is indistinguishable from a green step on a clean one —
+// the step name is not evidence about which guard ran. The only observable that
+// changed is how many files were opened: roughly 1,220 under the old
+// basename gate against roughly 22,745 now. That number is therefore the sole
+// discriminator available to anyone verifying that the widened guard actually
+// ran, and it is relied on outside this repository as a release-gate
+// corroborator. A discriminator that disappears exactly when the guard fails is
+// no use to an operator reading a red log, so it is printed either way.
+const census = `${scanned} tracked + packed file(s) scanned${symlinkNote}${absentNote}`;
+
 if (findings.length === 0) {
-  console.log(
-    `Package-manager and deployment-identifier guard clean (${scanned} tracked + packed file(s) scanned${symlinkNote}${absentNote}).`,
-  );
+  console.log(`Package-manager and deployment-identifier guard clean (${census}).`);
   process.exit(0);
 }
 
-console.error(`${findings.length} package-manager / deployment-identifier finding(s) detected.`);
+console.error(`${findings.length} package-manager / deployment-identifier finding(s) detected (${census}).`);
 for (const finding of findings.slice(0, 50)) {
   console.error(`${finding.path}:${finding.line} ${finding.rule} - ${finding.detail}`);
 }