diff --git a/scripts/workflow-registry-audit.mjs b/scripts/workflow-registry-audit.mjs
index 92e9da706..b861786e6 100644
--- a/scripts/workflow-registry-audit.mjs
+++ b/scripts/workflow-registry-audit.mjs
@@ -389,6 +389,7 @@ function sanitizeDiagnosticDetail(error) {
       /\b((?:GH|GITHUB|ACCESS|AUTH|ID|REFRESH)?_?TOKEN)\s*=\s*[^\s,;]+/gi,
       `$1=${REDACTED}`,
     )
+    .replace(/\bgithub_pat_[A-Za-z0-9_]+\b/g, REDACTED)
     .replace(/\bgh[pousr]_[A-Za-z0-9_]+\b/g, REDACTED)
     .slice(0, MAX_DIAGNOSTIC_DETAIL_LENGTH);
 }
@@ -523,4 +524,4 @@ export async function collectWorkflowRegistryAudit(input) {
   }
 
   return result;
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/scripts/workflow-registry-live-audit.mjs b/scripts/workflow-registry-live-audit.mjs
index a9375da78..9d3579736 100644
--- a/scripts/workflow-registry-live-audit.mjs
+++ b/scripts/workflow-registry-live-audit.mjs
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ function boundedDiagnostic(value) {
   const cleaned = String(value ?? "")
     .replace(/[\u0000-\u001f\u007f]/g, "")
     .replace(/\bbearer\s+\S+/gi, "Bearer [REDACTED]")
+    .replace(/\bgithub_pat_[A-Za-z0-9_]+\b/g, "[REDACTED]")
     .replace(/\bgh[pousr]_[A-Za-z0-9_]+\b/g, "[REDACTED]")
     .trim();
   return cleaned.length <= 2_048 ? cleaned : `${cleaned.slice(0, 2_048)}…`;
diff --git a/test/workflow-registry-live-audit.test.ts b/test/workflow-registry-live-audit.test.ts
index 3d79669ed..ba18afddd 100644
--- a/test/workflow-registry-live-audit.test.ts
+++ b/test/workflow-registry-live-audit.test.ts
@@ -156,4 +156,32 @@ describe("live workflow-registry collector", () => {
       http_status: 403,
     }));
   });
+
+  it("redacts fine-grained GitHub tokens from collection failures", async () => {
+    const leakedToken = "github_pat_11EXAMPLE_secretmaterial";
+    const ghJson = async (endpoint: string) => {
+      if (endpoint === "repos/ContextualWisdomLab/noema/branches/main") {
+        return { commit: { sha: mainSha } };
+      }
+      if (endpoint.startsWith("repos/ContextualWisdomLab/noema/git/trees/")) {
+        return { truncated: false, tree: [] };
+      }
+      if (endpoint.includes("/actions/workflows?")) {
+        throw Object.assign(new Error(`HTTP 403 token=${leakedToken}`), { status: 403 });
+      }
+      throw new Error(`unexpected endpoint ${endpoint}`);
+    };
+
+    const result = await collectLiveWorkflowRegistryAudit({
+      repository: "ContextualWisdomLab/noema",
+      defaultBranch: "main",
+      ghJson,
+      now: () => observedAt,
+    });
+
+    const detail = String(result.failures[0]?.detail ?? "");
+    expect(result.status).toBe("FAIL");
+    expect(detail).toContain("[REDACTED]");
+    expect(detail).not.toContain(leakedToken);
+  });
 });