diff --git a/.github/workflows/security-scan-exact-head-quality-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/security-scan-exact-head-quality-ci.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e0b30fb16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/security-scan-exact-head-quality-ci.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+name: Security Scan Exact-Head Quality CI
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - ".github/workflows/security-scan.yml"
+      - ".github/workflows/security-scan-exact-head-quality-ci.yml"
+      - "tests/test_security_scan_exact_head.py"
+      - "tests/test_security_scan_sarif_exact_head.py"
+
+concurrency:
+  group: security-scan-exact-head-${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  exact-head-contract:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout literal pull request head
+        uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          repository: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name }}
+          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
+          persist-credentials: false
+      - name: Compile exact-head contracts
+        run: >-
+          python3 -m py_compile
+          tests/test_security_scan_exact_head.py
+          tests/test_security_scan_sarif_exact_head.py
+      - name: Execute dependency-free exact-head contracts
+        run: |
+          python3 - <<'PY'
+          from tests import test_security_scan_exact_head as checkout_contract
+          from tests import test_security_scan_sarif_exact_head as sarif_contract
+
+          checkout_contract.test_repository_scanners_checkout_the_literal_pull_request_head()
+          checkout_contract.test_dependency_review_checkout_is_bound_to_the_same_exact_head()
+          sarif_contract.test_repository_scanner_sarif_is_attributed_to_the_literal_head()
+          print("security scan exact-head contracts passed")
+          PY
diff --git a/.github/workflows/security-scan.yml b/.github/workflows/security-scan.yml
index c3b8fa5db..4314ad3f1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/security-scan.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/security-scan.yml
@@ -257,9 +257,11 @@ jobs:
       contents: read
       pull-requests: read
     steps:
-      - name: Checkout
+      - name: Checkout exact head
         uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7.0.0
         with:
+          repository: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name }}
+          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
           persist-credentials: false
       - name: Check dependency review support
         id: dependency_review_support
@@ -311,9 +313,11 @@ jobs:
       security-events: write
       actions: read
     steps:
-      - name: Checkout
+      - name: Checkout exact head
         uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7.0.0
         with:
+          repository: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name }}
+          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
           persist-credentials: false
       - name: Trivy filesystem scan
         uses: aquasecurity/trivy-action@a9c7b0f06e461e9d4b4d1711f154ee024b8d7ab8 # v0.36.0
@@ -387,6 +391,8 @@ jobs:
         with:
           sarif_file: trivy-results.sarif
           category: trivy-fs
+          ref: refs/pull/${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}/head
+          sha: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
           wait-for-processing: false
       - name: Report Trivy SARIF upload failure
         if: steps.upload_trivy_sarif.outcome == 'failure'
@@ -403,9 +409,11 @@ jobs:
       contents: read
       actions: read
     steps:
-      - name: Checkout
+      - name: Checkout exact head
         uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7.0.0
         with:
+          repository: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name }}
+          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
           persist-credentials: false
       - name: Run Scorecard
         uses: ossf/scorecard-action@4eaacf0543bb3f2c246792bd56e8cdeffafb205a # v2.4.3
@@ -461,6 +469,8 @@ jobs:
         with:
           sarif_file: results.sarif
           category: scorecard
+          ref: refs/pull/${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}/head
+          sha: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
           wait-for-processing: false
       - name: Report Scorecard SARIF upload failure
         if: steps.upload_scorecard_sarif.outcome == 'failure'
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e601de81b..9b4e84e9a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,5 +12,6 @@ Semantic Versioning where the repository publishes a release.
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- Bound dependency-review support, Trivy, and Scorecard checkouts to the literal pull-request head repository and SHA; bound Trivy and Scorecard SARIF uploads to the matching `refs/pull/<number>/head` identity; and added permanent dependency-free exact-head regression evidence.
 - Bound both trusted-uv quality jobs to `github.event.pull_request.head.sha` and added a permanent two-checkout regression contract so exact-head compatibility, coverage, docstring, and compilation claims cannot silently measure GitHub's generated pull-request merge revision.
 - Made Strix treat only a single LiteLLM provider-error line containing NVIDIA NIM context and model-catalog 404 evidence as cross-model fallback evidence, rejecting cross-line signal assembly and provider-like target source literals; moved the public default to Nemotron 3 Super 120B and added a second NVIDIA hosted candidate before GitHub Models without neutralizing reported vulnerabilities.
diff --git a/docs/doctoring/security-scan-exact-head.md b/docs/doctoring/security-scan-exact-head.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dedad3a41
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/doctoring/security-scan-exact-head.md
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+# Security scan exact-head evidence
+
+## Decision
+
+The central `Security Scan` workflow treats the literal pull-request head as the only valid repository-scanner input. GitHub's `pull_request` event normally exposes a generated merge revision through `GITHUB_SHA`; that revision is useful for integration testing but cannot prove that Trivy or Scorecard scanned the exact current contributor head required by CWL authorization policy.
+
+The dependency-review support checkout, Trivy filesystem scan, and Scorecard posture scan therefore set both:
+
+```yaml
+repository: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name }}
+ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
+```
+
+Persisted checkout credentials remain disabled. Fork pull requests are read through their explicit head repository and immutable commit SHA; no write credential is added.
+
+## Durable SARIF identity
+
+Scanning the head is insufficient when durable code-scanning evidence is attributed to a different revision. Trivy and Scorecard uploads explicitly bind:
+
+```yaml
+ref: refs/pull/${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}/head
+sha: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
+```
+
+GitHub's code-scanning API requires both a full Git reference and the commit SHA to which an uploaded analysis relates. The pair above states that the SARIF describes the pull-request head, not the generated merge commit.
+
+## Preserved security behavior
+
+This change does not alter scanner versions, vulnerability severities, Trivy's fixable Medium-or-higher hard gate, dependency-review thresholds, Scorecard's soft posture role, SARIF sanitation, permissions, or the existing OSV base-versus-head comparison. It only makes scanner input and result identity consistent.
+
+The workflow remains fail closed for absent scanner output and actionable findings. SARIF upload failures remain separately visible without suppressing the repository-local Trivy finding gate. A queued, cancelled, skipped, failed, missing, or predecessor-head run is not current-head evidence.
+
+## Verification
+
+`tests/test_security_scan_exact_head.py` verifies literal-head checkout for all three affected jobs. `tests/test_security_scan_sarif_exact_head.py` verifies durable Trivy and Scorecard SARIF attribution. The dedicated read-only quality workflow checks out the literal PR head, compiles both contracts, and executes them without package installation.
+
+The initiating DiskSage evidence was Security Scan run `31070907732`, whose Trivy job log checked out `refs/remotes/pull/137/merge` rather than DiskSage PR #137 head `87ac0e08cceed3d1a766da13a8f8123912178192`. That result remains historical merge-tree evidence and is not reclassified as exact-head proof.
+
+## Rollback
+
+Rollback requires an independently reviewed revert and fresh exact-head security evidence. Do not restore implicit checkout or automatic SARIF revision detection unless an equally strict mechanism proves that the scanned filesystem, SARIF `ref`, and SARIF `sha` all identify the same current pull-request head.
+
+## APA 7th references
+
+GitHub. (n.d.). *Events that trigger workflows*. GitHub Docs. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflows-and-actions/events-that-trigger-workflows
+
+GitHub. (n.d.). *REST API endpoints for code scanning*. GitHub Docs. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://docs.github.com/en/rest/code-scanning/code-scanning
+
+GitHub. (n.d.). *Uploading CodeQL analysis results to GitHub*. GitHub Docs. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/code-security/tutorials/customize-code-scanning/upload-results
diff --git a/tests/test_security_scan_exact_head.py b/tests/test_security_scan_exact_head.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3b6e34a57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_security_scan_exact_head.py
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+"""Exact-head contracts for the organization security scanner workflow."""
+
+from pathlib import Path
+
+
+REPO_ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
+WORKFLOW_PATH = REPO_ROOT / ".github" / "workflows" / "security-scan.yml"
+
+
+def workflow_job(workflow: str, job_name: str) -> str:
+    """Return one top-level job block from the central security workflow.
+
+    The workflow uses two-space-indented job identifiers. Normalizing line
+    endings keeps this contract deterministic on Windows and Unix checkouts.
+    """
+
+    normalized = workflow.replace("\r\n", "\n").replace("\r", "\n")
+    marker = f"\n  {job_name}:\n"
+    start = normalized.index(marker) + len(marker)
+    remaining = normalized[start:]
+    candidates = [
+        offset
+        for line in remaining.splitlines(keepends=True)
+        if (offset := remaining.find(line)) >= 0
+        and line.startswith("  ")
+        and not line.startswith("    ")
+        and line.rstrip().endswith(":")
+    ]
+    if not candidates:
+        return remaining
+    first = min(offset for offset in candidates if offset > 0)
+    return remaining[:first]
+
+
+def test_repository_scanners_checkout_the_literal_pull_request_head() -> None:
+    """Trivy and Scorecard must never scan GitHub's synthetic merge ref."""
+
+    workflow = WORKFLOW_PATH.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+    exact_repository = "repository: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name }}"
+    exact_head = "ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}"
+
+    for job_name in ("trivy-fs", "scorecard"):
+        job = workflow_job(workflow, job_name)
+        assert exact_repository in job
+        assert exact_head in job
+        assert "persist-credentials: false" in job
+
+
+def test_dependency_review_checkout_is_bound_to_the_same_exact_head() -> None:
+    """Supporting checkout evidence must match the API comparison head."""
+
+    workflow = WORKFLOW_PATH.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+    job = workflow_job(workflow, "dependency-review")
+
+    assert "repository: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name }}" in job
+    assert "ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}" in job
+    assert "HEAD_SHA: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}" in job
diff --git a/tests/test_security_scan_sarif_exact_head.py b/tests/test_security_scan_sarif_exact_head.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..78f3e8bc3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_security_scan_sarif_exact_head.py
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+"""Durable exact-head SARIF contracts for central repository scanners."""
+
+from pathlib import Path
+
+
+WORKFLOW_PATH = (
+    Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
+    / ".github"
+    / "workflows"
+    / "security-scan.yml"
+)
+
+
+def _job_block(workflow: str, job_name: str) -> str:
+    """Return one two-space-indented GitHub Actions job block."""
+
+    normalized = workflow.replace("\r\n", "\n").replace("\r", "\n")
+    marker = f"\n  {job_name}:\n"
+    start = normalized.index(marker) + len(marker)
+    remaining = normalized[start:]
+    offset = 0
+    for line in remaining.splitlines(keepends=True):
+        if offset and line.startswith("  ") and not line.startswith("    "):
+            if line.rstrip().endswith(":"):
+                return remaining[:offset]
+        offset += len(line)
+    return remaining
+
+
+def test_repository_scanner_sarif_is_attributed_to_the_literal_head() -> None:
+    """Trivy and Scorecard SARIF must identify the exact scanned head SHA."""
+
+    workflow = WORKFLOW_PATH.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+    expected_ref = "ref: refs/pull/${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}/head"
+    expected_sha = "sha: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}"
+
+    for job_name in ("trivy-fs", "scorecard"):
+        job = _job_block(workflow, job_name)
+        assert expected_ref in job
+        assert expected_sha in job