diff --git a/verification/HARNESS.sha256 b/verification/HARNESS.sha256
index 74e173e..166154d 100644
--- a/verification/HARNESS.sha256
+++ b/verification/HARNESS.sha256
@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
 e7d422f0be9a9e6f5465058292e30c711d52856428da2b01c470a57ec181540c  AUDIT-MANIFEST.txt
-29b20810b6d365d8aa0b1affbbd4e3a38f03f302eb839d10a314e94a60b46da7  check.sh
+3fa6c199e28a6b6bf191ed5fa5f6e27d18d0cab651b0ed311fd8fadd79b30cc5  check.sh
+90fcad217c7b6507abecf37a41d57149f06a8955a72e60dc03616933f981ed6b  driver-allowlist.txt
 070147e2667053bd5d5e1174b969fc6c91bfcf15ded1a5bff57754e15f416885  fidelity/lean_defs.py
 9661bc2d33e907453ab4378da918589a709127b2e117ef1fd578d4e0472edf87  fidelity/pacta_pin.py
 5d82462a002ac9fc782e95afe78b7719ba64b6410b5d2bfa620fe5317367dbf2  fidelity/run_fidelity.py
 503babb3f4e6aff82ebd59e8752469ecd60fba440ed3b11b3f97c2b655fbd9bf  gen/LTLAcc/HashExternal.lean
 f1eb5cdd158e30df14c59065fe2050448c77b5262b282208fa831d050f6b6a71  inventory-allowlist.txt
-f66fb98d2a09503d9bd0d60dc964545eea6dc94b9bbb9246d1021195b79f2601  inventory_gate.sh
+d628cc64efe920304f4ad8319d9b880a942abb6d850f4022fa1a26af7e8c34a1  inventory_gate.sh
 736ea4be712e1b5bcda10ecb466f0dec7008a2a36eabdfd77563976299c43cce  lean-guard
 ce4c4e3d87434b9663f46de25ce34b48a0cf0d392e0a320a0787b4674a2d7b61  lean-toolchain
 6f39303b336aedc4da8381712de8180282e39c0725226c292fce15b47f9beb88  PACTA-PIN.sha256
 eda93f520546a692926b2a46bcb79332e1795879e5083327a8bf2404aca5cf87  Proofs/AxiomCheck.lean
-de5cdf01724fd4333b0652769bfede3ee150fedfa0a6c4ffbc8e7ab065843928  Proofs/Inventory.lean
+82d41c634a2e9adfc2cc74c202d025e57411687796f820765d45608f3fb4cb20  Proofs/Inventory.lean
 0b8a0fc6947af1d1e600a756eb2b07dc88d189b21df3220c4501a41be8b33f1e  run_bare.sh
 473e2463d9c26653c8435ad6758044742f200eb13ea0db4b8f076466c08bd87a  selftest_audit.sh
 3d5898161d663eccad162269a5a6c102319077e22e1f2d89a8bfcab6926d29f6  selftest-harness.sh
diff --git a/verification/Proofs/Inventory.lean b/verification/Proofs/Inventory.lean
index 13dc9ff..82cbfdc 100644
--- a/verification/Proofs/Inventory.lean
+++ b/verification/Proofs/Inventory.lean
@@ -215,7 +215,25 @@ def ppAll (e : Expr) : MetaM String := do
                   the audit infrastructure. An instrument may declare definitions \
                   and whatever the elaborator generates for them — never a claim \
                   of its own, which no certificate covers and no allowlist pins."
-    drv := drv.push s!"DRV|{n}|{k}"
+    -- THE CONE. Round-8 review (Claude, `drv-surface-no-cones`,
+    -- `accounting-certifies-enumeration`): these rows carried name and kind
+    -- only, so when the accounting identity proved every kernel constant was
+    -- ENUMERATED, a claim planted in an instrument satisfied it and was then
+    -- examined by nothing. The reviewer's payload was exactly
+    --     DRV|LTLAccAudit.bait.smuggled|theorem
+    -- with cone [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound] — admitted, counted,
+    -- and covered by no allowlist row, no statement digest and no cone check.
+    -- Their verdict: the identity "converted 36 declarations nobody enumerated
+    -- into 36 declarations nobody examined."
+    --
+    -- With the cone here and the rows pinned in driver-allowlist.txt by the
+    -- same gate the corpus uses, the identity and the audit coincide. The
+    -- name-prefix rule above stays as a readable first check but is no longer
+    -- load-bearing: the reviewer showed it breaks in one line, and membership
+    -- in a committed allowlist does not.
+    let drvCone := axiomCone env n
+    let drvConeStr := ",".intercalate (drvCone.toList.map (·.toString))
+    drv := drv.push s!"DRV|{env.mainModule}|{n}|{k}|{drvConeStr}"
   let drvSorted := drv.qsort (· < ·)
   for l in drvSorted do
     IO.println l
diff --git a/verification/check.sh b/verification/check.sh
index 2257653..c2fd5e2 100755
--- a/verification/check.sh
+++ b/verification/check.sh
@@ -165,6 +165,10 @@ HARNESS_EXTRA=(
   lean-toolchain            # which Lean the corpus claims to have been checked by
   fidelity/lean_defs.py     # the Python transcription the differential compares
   fidelity/run_fidelity.py  # the differential itself
+  driver-allowlist.txt      # the INSTRUMENTS' own declaration surface, with cones.
+                            # Not executable, so it would otherwise sit outside the
+                            # harness set — and an allowlist an attacker may rewrite
+                            # pins nothing, the same shape as a forgeable .audit-basis.
   PACTA-PIN.sha256          # WHICH pacta the differential is entitled to compare
                             # against. Pinned here because it is not executable
                             # and would otherwise sit outside the harness set —
@@ -408,7 +412,7 @@ KERN_NAMES=$(mktemp /tmp/acc-kernnames-XXXX.txt)
 ACCT_NAMES=$(mktemp /tmp/acc-acctnames-XXXX.txt)
 LC_ALL=C grep '^KERNEL-NAME|' "$KERNLOG" | cut -d'|' -f2 | LC_ALL=C sort -u > "$KERN_NAMES"
 { LC_ALL=C awk -F'|' '/^INV\|/{print $2}' "$INVLOG"
-  LC_ALL=C grep '^DRV|' "$INVLOG" | cut -d'|' -f2
+  LC_ALL=C grep '^DRV|' "$INVLOG" | cut -d'|' -f3
 } | LC_ALL=C sort -u > "$ACCT_NAMES"
 UNACCOUNTED=$(LC_ALL=C comm -23 "$KERN_NAMES" "$ACCT_NAMES")
 if [ ! -s "$KERN_NAMES" ]; then
@@ -467,13 +471,32 @@ elif [ "$NDRV" -eq 0 ]; then
 else
   echo "  driver surface: $NDRV declarations across the audit instruments, no axiom, no claim"
 fi
-# NOTE ON WHAT THIS DOES NOT DO. It does not pin WHICH definitions the
-# instruments declare — a new inert `def` in a driver is allowed. That is
-# deliberate: both drivers are byte-pinned in HARNESS.sha256 (Phase 0c), so
-# their contents cannot drift unnoticed, and a second policy file listing their
-# internals would add a thing to maintain without adding a thing to catch. What
-# the check above adds is the property byte-pinning cannot give: that no
-# instrument declares an AXIOM or a CLAIM, whatever its bytes are.
+# AND THE ROWS ARE PINNED, WITH THEIR CONES, BY THE SAME GATE THE CORPUS USES.
+#
+# This block used to end with a note explaining why the instruments' internals
+# were deliberately NOT pinned: they are byte-pinned in HARNESS.sha256, so "a
+# second policy file listing their internals would add a thing to maintain
+# without adding a thing to catch."
+#
+# Round-8 review (Claude, register keys `drv-surface-no-cones`,
+# `accounting-certifies-enumeration`) showed that reasoning was wrong, by
+# demonstration. Their payload
+#     DRV|LTLAccAudit.bait.smuggled|theorem
+# is a genuine claim with cone [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]. It
+# passed the name-prefix rule above — `bait` is declared alongside it, so it
+# looks like an elaborator artefact — it was enumerated by the accounting
+# identity, and then NOTHING examined it: the rows carried no cone, no
+# allowlist covered them, and the statement digest does not reach instruments.
+# Byte-pinning shows that a driver CHANGED. It does not show what appeared in
+# it or what that thing rests on, and "the file changed" is not a finding a
+# reader can act on.
+#
+# So the rows now carry their cone and are diffed against a committed
+# allowlist, in both directions, by inventory_gate.sh with the DRV tag — the
+# same implementation, so the two surfaces cannot drift apart in their gating.
+# The axiom policy differs by surface and is enforced per surface: the corpus
+# admits exactly the sanctioned hash boundary, the instruments admit none.
+"$HERE/inventory_gate.sh" "$INVLOG" "$HERE/driver-allowlist.txt" DRV || COVFAIL=1
 
 # CONES ⊆ allowlist with IDENTICAL cones: the #print-axioms-pinned table
 # and the environment inventory are two independent computations of the
diff --git a/verification/driver-allowlist.txt b/verification/driver-allowlist.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dbe06f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/verification/driver-allowlist.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# driver-allowlist.txt — THE AUDIT INSTRUMENTS' OWN DECLARATION SURFACE,
+# pinned with axiom cones, gated by inventory_gate.sh with the DRV tag:
+# the same implementation that pins the corpus, in both directions.
+#
+# Round-8 review (Claude, register keys drv-surface-no-cones and
+# accounting-certifies-enumeration). The accounting identity proved every
+# kernel constant was ENUMERATED. It did not prove any of them was
+# EXAMINED: a claim planted in an instrument was enumerated, carried a
+# real cone, and nothing looked at it. These rows close that gap.
+#
+# Regenerate deliberately, never by hand:
+#   scratchpad/gen-driver-allowlists.sh
+# and read the diff — a new row is a declaration that appeared in an
+# instrument, which is exactly the event this file exists to surface.
+DRV|Proofs.Inventory|LTLAccAudit.axiomCone._proof_11|theorem|Classical.choice,Quot.sound,propext
+DRV|Proofs.Inventory|LTLAccAudit.axiomCone._proof_1|theorem|Classical.choice,Quot.sound,propext
+DRV|Proofs.Inventory|LTLAccAudit.axiomCone._sparseCasesOn_1|def|propext
+DRV|Proofs.Inventory|LTLAccAudit.axiomCone._sparseCasesOn_4|def|propext
+DRV|Proofs.Inventory|LTLAccAudit.axiomCone.match_1|def|propext
+DRV|Proofs.Inventory|LTLAccAudit.axiomCone.match_4|def|propext
+DRV|Proofs.Inventory|LTLAccAudit.axiomCone.match_7|def|propext
+DRV|Proofs.Inventory|LTLAccAudit.axiomCone.match_9|def|Classical.choice,Quot.sound,propext
+DRV|Proofs.Inventory|LTLAccAudit.axiomCone|def|Classical.choice,Quot.sound,propext
+DRV|Proofs.Inventory|LTLAccAudit.corpusModules|def|
+DRV|Proofs.Inventory|LTLAccAudit.driverModules|def|
+DRV|Proofs.Inventory|LTLAccAudit.kindOf.match_1|def|
+DRV|Proofs.Inventory|LTLAccAudit.kindOf|def|
+DRV|Proofs.Inventory|LTLAccAudit.normWs|def|Classical.choice,Quot.sound,propext
+DRV|Proofs.Inventory|LTLAccAudit.ppAll|def|Classical.choice,Quot.sound,propext
+DRV|Proofs.Inventory|LTLAccAudit.valueOf._sparseCasesOn_1|def|propext
+DRV|Proofs.Inventory|LTLAccAudit.valueOf.match_1|def|propext
+DRV|Proofs.Inventory|LTLAccAudit.valueOf|def|propext
diff --git a/verification/inventory_gate.sh b/verification/inventory_gate.sh
index 01a7e82..a8b21a2 100755
--- a/verification/inventory_gate.sh
+++ b/verification/inventory_gate.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,35 @@
 # calls it, and selftest_audit.sh exercises this exact script against
 # injected evader declarations — the tested logic IS the shipping logic.
 #
-# Usage: inventory_gate.sh <observed-lean-output> <allowlist-file>
+# Usage: inventory_gate.sh <observed-lean-output> <allowlist-file> [<tag>]
+#
+# <tag> defaults to INV — the CORPUS walk. Pass DRV to gate the INSTRUMENTS'
+# OWN SURFACE with this same implementation.
+#
+# WHY THE TAG EXISTS — round-8 review (Claude, register keys
+# `drv-surface-no-cones`, `accounting-certifies-enumeration`).
+#
+# The accounting identity added in round 7 proved every constant the kernel
+# sees is ENUMERATED by one of the two walks. The reviewer showed that
+# enumeration is not audit: a claim planted in an instrument WAS enumerated —
+# `DRV|LTLAccAudit.bait.smuggled|theorem` — and then nothing looked at it,
+# because DRV rows carried name and kind and NO CONE, and no allowlist covered
+# them. In their words, the identity "converted 36 declarations nobody
+# enumerated into 36 declarations nobody examined. That is progress of one
+# step, not two."
+#
+# The second step is here: DRV rows now carry their axiom cone and are pinned
+# in a committed allowlist, by THIS gate, in both directions — exactly as the
+# corpus is. One implementation, not two, because a second copy of a coverage
+# gate is a second thing to drift.
+#
+# It also retires a heuristic. The driver-surface rule permits a theorem whose
+# name extends a constant declared alongside it, since that is what the
+# elaborator generates for a definition; the reviewer showed it "breaks in one
+# line" — declare `def bait`, then `theorem bait.smuggled` passes. That rule is
+# kept as a fast, readable first line of defence, but it is NO LONGER
+# LOAD-BEARING: a planted claim now has to appear in the pinned allowlist, and
+# a new row fails closed whatever it is named.
 #
 # Fail-closed in BOTH directions:
 #   UNCLASSIFIED — constant in the environment, absent from the allowlist
@@ -17,17 +45,34 @@
 # ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 set -uo pipefail
 export LC_ALL=C   # byte-order collation: sort/comm must agree with Lean's String order
-obs_file="$1"; allow_file="$2"
+obs_file="$1"; allow_file="$2"; TAG="${3:-INV}"
+case "$TAG" in
+  INV) WHAT="the audited corpus"; TRAILER_TAG="INV-COUNT"; LABEL="inventory gate"; TRUNCLABEL="INVENTORY TRUNCATED" ;;
+  DRV) WHAT="the audit instruments"; TRAILER_TAG="DRV-COUNT"; LABEL="driver-surface gate"; TRUNCLABEL="DRIVER SURFACE TRUNCATED" ;;
+  *)   echo "  GATE MISUSE: unknown tag '$TAG' (expected INV or DRV)"; exit 1 ;;
+esac
 
-OBS=$(grep '^INV|' "$obs_file" | sort -u)
-N_OBS=$(printf '%s' "$OBS" | grep -c '^INV|' || true)
-TRAILER=$(grep '^INV-COUNT|' "$obs_file" | tail -1 | cut -d'|' -f2)
-if [ -z "$TRAILER" ] || [ "$TRAILER" != "$N_OBS" ]; then
+# The trailer is an OUTPUT-INTEGRITY check: it must equal the number of rows
+# the driver(s) actually emitted, BEFORE de-duplication. Comparing it to the
+# de-duplicated count conflates "a run was truncated" with "two rows were
+# identical", and the second is a record-format defect that must be fixed at
+# the source, not absorbed here. (It was: DRV rows now carry their driver.)
+N_RAW=$(grep -c "^$TAG|" "$obs_file" || true)
+OBS=$(grep "^$TAG|" "$obs_file" | sort -u)
+N_OBS=$(printf '%s' "$OBS" | grep -c "^$TAG|" || true)
+if [ "$N_RAW" -ne "$N_OBS" ]; then
+  echo "  DUPLICATE $TAG RECORDS: $N_RAW rows collapse to $N_OBS distinct ones."
+  echo "  Two declarations share a record, so one is covered by the other's entry:"
+  grep "^$TAG|" "$obs_file" | sort | uniq -d | head -5 | sed 's/^/    /'
+  exit 1
+fi
+TRAILER=$(grep "^$TRAILER_TAG|" "$obs_file" | tail -1 | cut -d'|' -f2)
+if [ -z "$TRAILER" ] || [ "$TRAILER" != "$N_RAW" ]; then
   echo "  INVENTORY TRUNCATED: trailer=${TRAILER:-absent}, observed $N_OBS lines"
   exit 1
 fi
 
-ALLOW=$(grep '^INV|' "$allow_file" | sort -u)
+ALLOW=$(grep "^$TAG|" "$allow_file" | sort -u)
 FAILGATE=0
 UNCLASS=$(comm -23 <(printf '%s\n' "$OBS") <(printf '%s\n' "$ALLOW"))
 STALE=$(comm -13 <(printf '%s\n' "$OBS") <(printf '%s\n' "$ALLOW"))
@@ -40,13 +85,29 @@ if [ -n "$STALE" ]; then
   FAILGATE=1
 fi
 
-# The corpus admits exactly one axiom, and it is the sanctioned boundary.
+# THE AXIOM POLICY IS PER-SURFACE, and conflating the two would be a silent
+# inversion. The CORPUS admits exactly one axiom — the sanctioned hash boundary.
+# The INSTRUMENTS admit NONE: an audit tool that declares an axiom widens the
+# trusted base from inside the thing doing the auditing. Reusing the corpus rule
+# for DRV would have demanded LTLAcc.sha256 appear among instrument
+# declarations, where it never does, and the gate would have failed for a reason
+# that has nothing to do with the property.
 AXLINES=$(printf '%s\n' "$OBS" | grep '|axiom|' || true)
-if [ "$AXLINES" != "INV|LTLAcc.sha256|axiom|LTLAcc.sha256" ]; then
-  echo "  AXIOM SURFACE DRIFT: expected exactly LTLAcc.sha256, observed:"
-  printf '%s\n' "${AXLINES:-  (none)}" | sed 's/^/    /'
-  FAILGATE=1
+if [ "$TAG" = DRV ]; then
+  if [ -n "$AXLINES" ]; then
+    echo "  AXIOM SURFACE DRIFT: $WHAT must declare no axioms; observed:"
+    printf '%s\n' "$AXLINES" | sed 's/^/    /'
+    FAILGATE=1
+  fi
+  AXNOTE="zero axioms declared by the instruments"
+else
+  if [ "$AXLINES" != "INV|LTLAcc.sha256|axiom|LTLAcc.sha256" ]; then
+    echo "  AXIOM SURFACE DRIFT: expected exactly LTLAcc.sha256, observed:"
+    printf '%s\n' "${AXLINES:-  (none)}" | sed 's/^/    /'
+    FAILGATE=1
+  fi
+  AXNOTE="single sanctioned axiom"
 fi
 
-[ "$FAILGATE" = 0 ] && echo "  inventory gate: $N_OBS constants, environment == allowlist, single sanctioned axiom"
+[ "$FAILGATE" = 0 ] && echo "  $LABEL: $N_OBS constants, environment == allowlist, $AXNOTE"
 exit "$FAILGATE"