diff --git a/deploy/senders-scope.json b/deploy/senders-scope.json
index d5366bc..3a0ea4d 100644
--- a/deploy/senders-scope.json
+++ b/deploy/senders-scope.json
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
       "approval-engine"
     ],
     "tenants": [
-      "*"
+      "tenant:platform"
     ],
     "may_write": true,
     "may_read": false,
diff --git a/deploy/senders-scope.yaml b/deploy/senders-scope.yaml
index 56a9aa6..e1a034f 100644
--- a/deploy/senders-scope.yaml
+++ b/deploy/senders-scope.yaml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ data:
       {
         "name": "approval-engine",
         "sources": ["approval-engine"],
-        "tenants": ["*"],
+        "tenants": ["tenant:platform"],
         "may_write": true,
         "may_read": false,
         "evidence_kind": "load-bearing"
diff --git a/docs/approval-engine-source-registration.md b/docs/approval-engine-source-registration.md
index 1f61288..d0b84c0 100644
--- a/docs/approval-engine-source-registration.md
+++ b/docs/approval-engine-source-registration.md
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ token appears here, in Git, in State Hub, or in a workplan.
 | `may_write` | true |
 | `may_read` | false — a source does not gain a read surface by emitting |
 | `secret_policy` | `redact` (estate default; see below) |
-| `tenants` | `["*"]` — **proposed, needs approval-engine's confirmation** |
+| `tenants` | `["tenant:platform"]` — exact platform store tenant |
 | Retention | no expiry set; recoverable history is the platform `data.backup` window, 30 days, `measured` |
 | Custody class | `operational` — never `archive`, never WORM |
 
@@ -39,25 +39,21 @@ Audit Core stores all four and derives nothing from them. It renders no verdict
 on whether an approval is still valid (§9.4), asserted by test in
 `tests/test_approval_validity_prohibition.py`.
 
-### The `tenants` value is the one input still owed
+### Source return — 2026-09-08
 
-`["*"]` is proposed because approval issuance is not obviously tenant-
-partitioned, and the alternative — an explicit tenant list — cannot be invented
-here. `audit_core/senders.py` states that omitting a tenant restriction "should
-be justified per sender, not adopted by default", so this needs
-`approval-engine` to either confirm the wildcard with its reasoning or supply
-the list. Tenant identifiers are opaque to Audit Core; their shape is owned by
-the IAM Profile and `tenant-engine`.
+`approval-engine/docs/audit-source-registration.md` now records the exact
+`["tenant:platform"]` scope and explicit `secret_policy: redact`. The tenant
+choice follows the already accepted platform tenant decision and the Engine,
+production CLI and deployment defaults; no cross-tenant scope is needed.
+Both scope manifests now use that exact value. Tests prove that the overlay
+removes a stale wildcard tenant/source/read grant and refuses near-miss tenant
+spellings while retaining the accepted platform tenant.
 
-### `secret_policy`
-
-`redact` accepts the event and redacts a secret-shaped field, so a legitimate
-event is not lost over one field. For a load-bearing source that trade is worth
-re-examining: `reject` refuses the event instead, which for approvals converts a
-redactable field into a delivery failure the source must retry. `redact` is the
-recommendation — losing a revocation record is worse than storing it with one
-field redacted — but it is `approval-engine`'s call to make explicitly rather
-than inherit.
+`redact` retains a legitimate event with a secret-shaped field removed rather
+than turning it into a delivery failure. This does not permit credentials in
+producer payloads. The scope overlay deliberately does not override
+`secret_policy`: the protected sender registry entry must set it explicitly
+when platform provisioning occurs, and live admission must verify that value.
 
 ## Applied in this repository
 
@@ -80,8 +76,7 @@ older rule's breadth. `user-engine`'s sender and its policy are unchanged.
 | Input | Owner | Note |
 | --- | --- | --- |
 | Token at `approval-engine/approval-engine-audit`, key `audit-token` | OpenBao (`railiance-platform`), routed via `warden route` | Audit Core never holds or transports it |
-| `tenants` confirmation | `approval-engine` | see above |
-| `secret_policy` confirmation | `approval-engine` | see above |
+| Receiver registry custody and explicit `secret_policy: redact` | `railiance-platform` | Link protected registry and sender credential in the first-provision record; no token generated here |
 | Applying the manifests to `railiance01` | operator | Audit Core does not apply cluster changes unprompted |
 
 ## What Audit Core will and will not claim about this stream
diff --git a/tests/test_senders.py b/tests/test_senders.py
index 4d74cd1..17188f8 100644
--- a/tests/test_senders.py
+++ b/tests/test_senders.py
@@ -314,6 +314,26 @@ def test_a_scope_entry_without_a_token_admits_nothing():
     assert registry.authenticate("Bearer live").name == "user-engine"
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("tenant", ["platform", "tenant:coulomb", "tenant:Platform", "tenant:platform ", "tenant:customer"])
+def test_approval_scope_restricts_a_stale_wildcard_registration(tenant):
+    registry = SenderRegistry.from_env({
+        "AUDIT_CORE_SENDERS": json.dumps([{
+            "name": "approval-engine", "tokens": ["fixture-only"],
+            "sources": ["*"], "tenants": ["*"],
+            "may_read": True, "secret_policy": "redact",
+        }]),
+        "AUDIT_CORE_SENDERS_SCOPE_PATH": str(SCOPE_FILE),
+    })
+    identity = registry.authenticate("Bearer fixture-only")
+    assert identity.permits_tenant("tenant:platform")
+    assert not identity.permits_tenant(tenant)
+    assert identity.permits_source("approval-engine")
+    assert not identity.permits_source("user-engine")
+    assert identity.may_write and not identity.may_read
+    assert identity.secret_policy == "redact"
+    assert identity.is_load_bearing
+
+
 def test_user_engine_evidence_kind_is_not_asserted_on_its_behalf():
     """Undeclared means attributive by default, not a claim audit-core made."""
     scope = json.loads(SCOPE_FILE.read_text())
diff --git a/workplans/AUDIT-WP-0009-evidence-role-conformance.md b/workplans/AUDIT-WP-0009-evidence-role-conformance.md
index 98bd114..0a5d2fe 100644
--- a/workplans/AUDIT-WP-0009-evidence-role-conformance.md
+++ b/workplans/AUDIT-WP-0009-evidence-role-conformance.md
@@ -264,6 +264,15 @@ approvals is omission, which tamper evidence does not address at all. T04 does.
 A consumer waiting on T02 before trusting approval evidence would be waiting on
 the wrong thing.
 
+**2026-09-08 source return:** approval-engine now records the exact existing
+store scope `["tenant:platform"]` and explicitly selects `redact` in
+`docs/audit-source-registration.md`. This supersedes the two input waits above.
+The JSON and ConfigMap overlays are narrowed together. The overlay preserves
+secret_policy from the protected registry, so provisioning must set it there.
+T09 remains progress for the platform custody record, credential, admitted
+manifest application and positive/negative live ingestion evidence. No secret
+was created and no production manifest was applied by this source change.
+
 ```task
 id: AUDIT-WP-0009-T10
 status: todo