diff --git a/docs/abilities.md b/docs/abilities.md
index 89d7840..dd23210 100644
--- a/docs/abilities.md
+++ b/docs/abilities.md
@@ -25,14 +25,17 @@ note.
 | `create-form` | Builds a form from a title and a loose field list (`{ type, label, required?, hint?, placeholder?, choices? }`); ids are minted, defaults seeded, shortcode returned. Fields go through the same normaliser a JSON import does. | edit forms |
 | `set-form-theme` | Applies an installed theme to a form; refuses invented slugs rather than falling back. | edit forms |
 | `list-entries` | Queries submissions with search, date range, status, starred and pagination; answers come back raw (by field id) and readable (by label). | read entries **for that form** |
-| `get-entry` | One submission in full: label, raw value and formatted value per question. | read entries (checked against the entry's form) |
+| `get-entry` | One submission in full: label, raw value and formatted value per question. | read entries **for the entry's form** |
 | `submit-form` | Submits through the visitor pipeline — availability, validation, anti-spam, storage, notifications. Refusals return per-field errors and store nothing. | any authenticated user |
 | `form-report` | The analytics report as data: counts, rates, timeline, distributions, NPS, optional `group_by` breakdown. Prefer it over fetching every entry when the job is summarising. | read entries **for that form** |
 
 Where a permission says **for that form**, the `alltfo_can_read_entries`
 filter is asked with the `form_id` from the ability's input — so a site that
 confines a user to a department's forms through that filter confines these
-abilities the same way.
+abilities the same way. `get-entry` names an entry rather than a form, so its
+gate resolves the entry to the form it belongs to first (`alltfo_can_read_entry()`)
+and asks the filter about that form — the refusal happens at the permission
+check, before the ability runs.
 
 ## The one honest liberty
 
diff --git a/docs/hooks-reference.md b/docs/hooks-reference.md
index 3feca0f..81bc0bb 100644
--- a/docs/hooks-reference.md
+++ b/docs/hooks-reference.md
@@ -1084,7 +1084,10 @@ entries of the forms it owns by returning false for every other id.
 
 The abilities honour it with the form in hand: `get-form`, `list-entries` and
 `form-report` ask this filter with the `form_id` from their input, and
-`list-forms` asks it per form before listing one.
+`list-forms` asks it per form before listing one. `get-entry` and the
+`/entries/{id}` REST route name an entry, not a form, so their permission gates
+go through `alltfo_can_read_entry( $entry_id )`, which resolves the entry to its
+form and asks this filter about that form.
 
 ---
 
diff --git a/includes/abilities.php b/includes/abilities.php
index ea290c3..7ab7d87 100644
--- a/includes/abilities.php
+++ b/includes/abilities.php
@@ -144,6 +144,13 @@ function alltfo_register_abilities() {
 		return alltfo_can_read_entries( absint( $input['form_id'] ?? 0 ) );
 	};
 
+	// An ability that names an *entry* asks about the form that entry belongs
+	// to -- the gate itself, not only the data path behind it, honours the
+	// per-form filter.
+	$read_entry = static function ( $input ) {
+		return alltfo_can_read_entry( absint( $input['entry_id'] ?? 0 ) );
+	};
+
 	// Submitting is what visitors do, so no capability is asked for — but the
 	// ability *is* held to an authenticated user, because it mints the time-trap
 	// signature a rendered form would carry, and that liberty is only honest on
@@ -341,7 +348,7 @@ function alltfo_register_abilities() {
 			'label'               => __( 'Get an entry', 'allterrain-forms' ),
 			'description'         => __( 'Reads one submission in full: every question with its label, the raw stored value and a formatted human-readable value, plus the submission date and status.', 'allterrain-forms' ),
 			'category'            => $category,
-			'permission_callback' => $read_entries,
+			'permission_callback' => $read_entry,
 			'execute_callback'    => 'alltfo_ability_get_entry',
 			'input_schema'        => array(
 				'type'       => 'object',
diff --git a/includes/post-types.php b/includes/post-types.php
index 72849fb..1ca4b56 100644
--- a/includes/post-types.php
+++ b/includes/post-types.php
@@ -414,6 +414,37 @@ function alltfo_can_read_entries( $form_id = 0 ) {
 	return (bool) apply_filters( 'alltfo_can_read_entries', $can, (int) $form_id );
 }
 
+/**
+ * Whether the current user may read one particular entry.
+ *
+ * An entry belongs to a form, and the per-form `alltfo_can_read_entries`
+ * filter is the seam a site uses to confine a reader to some forms and not
+ * others -- so a gate that names an entry must ask about *that* entry's form,
+ * not the blanket "any form at all". This is what the `get-entry` ability and
+ * the `/entries/{id}` REST route ask before their callbacks run; the data
+ * path asks it again in `alltfo_prepare_entry()`, so the gate and the door
+ * agree.
+ *
+ * An id that is not an entry falls back to the blanket question, so a caller
+ * holding the capability still reaches its own "that entry does not exist"
+ * answer instead of an opaque refusal.
+ *
+ * @since 0.1.0
+ *
+ * @param int $entry_id The entry.
+ * @return bool
+ */
+function alltfo_can_read_entry( $entry_id ) {
+	$entry_id = absint( $entry_id );
+	$post     = $entry_id ? get_post( $entry_id ) : null;
+
+	if ( ! $post || ALLTFO_ENTRY_TYPE !== $post->post_type ) {
+		return alltfo_can_read_entries();
+	}
+
+	return alltfo_can_read_entries( (int) get_post_meta( $post->ID, ALLTFO_META_FORM, true ) );
+}
+
 /**
  * Every status an entry can hold.
  *
diff --git a/includes/rest.php b/includes/rest.php
index 7ba3d59..4af7f0f 100644
--- a/includes/rest.php
+++ b/includes/rest.php
@@ -369,17 +369,25 @@ function alltfo_rest_can_edit() {
  * @return true|WP_Error
  */
 function alltfo_rest_can_read_entries( $request ) {
+	$route   = (string) $request->get_route();
 	$form_id = (int) $request->get_param( 'form_id' );
+	$id      = (int) $request->get_param( 'id' );
+
+	// What `id` names depends on the route. On `/entries/{id}` it is an
+	// *entry*, and the per-form question is about the form that entry belongs
+	// to. On `/forms/{id}/analytics` it is the form itself. Treating one as
+	// the other would ask the per-form filter about the wrong thing entirely.
+	if ( ! $form_id && $id && false !== strpos( $route, '/entries/' ) ) {
+		$allowed = alltfo_can_read_entry( $id );
+	} else {
+		if ( ! $form_id && false !== strpos( $route, '/forms/' ) ) {
+			$form_id = $id;
+		}
 
-	// The analytics route names its form parameter `id`, because it lives at
-	// `/forms/{id}/analytics`. Only routes under `/forms/` may read it that
-	// way -- on `/entries/{id}` the `id` is an *entry*, and treating it as a
-	// form would ask the per-form filter about the wrong thing entirely.
-	if ( ! $form_id && false !== strpos( (string) $request->get_route(), '/forms/' ) ) {
-		$form_id = (int) $request->get_param( 'id' );
+		$allowed = alltfo_can_read_entries( $form_id );
 	}
 
-	if ( alltfo_can_read_entries( $form_id ) ) {
+	if ( $allowed ) {
 		return true;
 	}
 
diff --git a/tests/phpunit/tests/abilities.php b/tests/phpunit/tests/abilities.php
index ff26cb3..9f0764b 100644
--- a/tests/phpunit/tests/abilities.php
+++ b/tests/phpunit/tests/abilities.php
@@ -342,20 +342,48 @@ public function test_a_subscriber_can_submit() {
 		$this->assertSame( 1, alltfo_count_entries( $form_id ) );
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Submits one answer to a form and returns the entry id.
+	 *
+	 * @param int $form_id The form.
+	 * @return int The entry id.
+	 */
+	protected function make_entry( $form_id ) {
+		$form   = $this->run_ability( 'allterrain-forms/get-form', array( 'form_id' => $form_id ) );
+		$result = $this->run_ability(
+			'allterrain-forms/submit-form',
+			array(
+				'form_id' => $form_id,
+				'values'  => array( $form['fields'][0]['id'] => 'Tomas Berg' ),
+			)
+		);
+
+		$this->assertTrue( $result['success'] );
+
+		return (int) $result['entry_id'];
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * The per-form filter confines every reading ability, id in hand.
 	 *
 	 * A user the `alltfo_can_read_entries` filter restricts to one form gets
-	 * that form and no other — from get-form, from form-report, and from the
-	 * list itself.
+	 * that form and no other — from get-form, from form-report, from get-entry,
+	 * and from the list itself. For get-entry the refusal must come from the
+	 * *permission gate*, not only from the data path behind it: an ability's
+	 * declared gate is what an MCP client and the REST channel consult before
+	 * running anything.
 	 *
 	 * @covers ::alltfo_register_abilities
 	 * @covers ::alltfo_ability_list_forms
+	 * @covers ::alltfo_can_read_entry
 	 */
 	public function test_per_form_filter_confines_the_read_abilities() {
 		$allowed = $this->make_form();
 		$other   = $this->make_form();
 
+		$my_entry    = $this->make_entry( $allowed );
+		$their_entry = $this->make_entry( $other );
+
 		$reader = self::factory()->user->create( array( 'role' => 'subscriber' ) );
 
 		( new WP_User( $reader ) )->add_cap( 'alltfo_read_entries' );
@@ -385,6 +413,20 @@ public function test_per_form_filter_confines_the_read_abilities() {
 		$this->assertContains( $allowed, $ids );
 		$this->assertNotContains( $other, $ids, 'The list is confined the same way.' );
 
+		$get_entry = wp_get_ability( 'allterrain-forms/get-entry' );
+
+		$this->assertTrue( $get_entry->check_permissions( array( 'entry_id' => $my_entry ) ) );
+		$this->assertFalse(
+			$get_entry->check_permissions( array( 'entry_id' => $their_entry ) ),
+			'The gate itself refuses an entry of a form outside the filter.'
+		);
+
+		$this->assertIsArray( $get_entry->execute( array( 'entry_id' => $my_entry ) ) );
+		$this->assertWPError(
+			$get_entry->execute( array( 'entry_id' => $their_entry ) ),
+			'An entry of a form outside the filter is not readable.'
+		);
+
 		remove_filter( 'alltfo_can_read_entries', $filter, 10 );
 	}
 }
diff --git a/tests/phpunit/tests/entries.php b/tests/phpunit/tests/entries.php
index 5ba98f4..9cf2fcb 100644
--- a/tests/phpunit/tests/entries.php
+++ b/tests/phpunit/tests/entries.php
@@ -180,14 +180,18 @@ public function test_starring_requires_an_entry() {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * The analytics route's form id reaches the per-form read filter.
+	 * The analytics and entry routes ask the per-form read filter about the
+	 * right form.
 	 *
-	 * The route names its parameter `id`, because it lives at
-	 * `/forms/{id}/analytics` -- and the permission callback used to read only
-	 * `form_id`, so the documented `alltfo_can_read_entries` seam was always
-	 * asked about form 0 rather than the form whose numbers were being read.
+	 * Both name their parameter `id`, and it means a different thing on each:
+	 * the form itself on `/forms/{id}/analytics`, an entry on `/entries/{id}`.
+	 * The permission callback used to read only `form_id`, so the documented
+	 * `alltfo_can_read_entries` seam was asked about form 0 on both -- and an
+	 * entry route must resolve its entry to the form it belongs to rather than
+	 * mistake the entry id for a form id.
 	 *
 	 * @covers ::alltfo_rest_can_read_entries
+	 * @covers ::alltfo_can_read_entry
 	 */
 	public function test_analytics_permission_asks_about_the_right_form() {
 		wp_set_current_user( self::factory()->user->create( array( 'role' => 'administrator' ) ) );
@@ -209,8 +213,8 @@ public function test_analytics_permission_asks_about_the_right_form() {
 
 		$result = alltfo_rest_can_read_entries( $request );
 
-		// An entry route's `id` is an entry, not a form, and must stay out of
-		// the per-form question.
+		// An entry route's `id` is an entry, not a form: the per-form question
+		// is about the form the entry belongs to.
 		$entry_request = new WP_REST_Request( 'GET', '/' . ALLTFO_REST_NAMESPACE . '/entries/' . $seeded['entry_id'] );
 		$entry_request->set_param( 'id', $seeded['entry_id'] );
 
@@ -221,10 +225,51 @@ public function test_analytics_permission_asks_about_the_right_form() {
 		$this->assertWPError( $result, 'Denying the form must deny its analytics.' );
 		$this->assertContains( $seeded['form_id'], $asked, 'The filter must be asked about the form being read.' );
 
-		$this->assertTrue( $entry_result );
+		$this->assertWPError( $entry_result, 'Denying the form must deny each of its entries at the gate.' );
 		$this->assertNotContains( $seeded['entry_id'], $asked, 'An entry id must never be mistaken for a form id.' );
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Asking about an entry asks about its form; asking about no entry asks
+	 * the blanket question.
+	 *
+	 * @covers ::alltfo_can_read_entry
+	 */
+	public function test_reading_one_entry_asks_about_its_form() {
+		wp_set_current_user( self::factory()->user->create( array( 'role' => 'administrator' ) ) );
+		alltfo_add_capabilities();
+
+		$seeded = $this->seed();
+		$asked  = array();
+
+		$filter = static function ( $can, $form_id ) use ( &$asked ) {
+			$asked[] = $form_id;
+
+			return $can;
+		};
+
+		add_filter( 'alltfo_can_read_entries', $filter, 10, 2 );
+
+		$this->assertTrue( alltfo_can_read_entry( $seeded['entry_id'] ) );
+		$this->assertSame( array( $seeded['form_id'] ), $asked );
+
+		$asked = array();
+
+		// A form id, a page id, an invented id: none is an entry, so the
+		// question falls back to "any form at all" and the caller keeps its
+		// own "does not exist" answer.
+		$this->assertTrue( alltfo_can_read_entry( $seeded['form_id'] ) );
+		$this->assertTrue( alltfo_can_read_entry( 987654 ) );
+		$this->assertSame( array( 0, 0 ), $asked );
+
+		remove_filter( 'alltfo_can_read_entries', $filter );
+
+		wp_set_current_user( self::factory()->user->create( array( 'role' => 'subscriber' ) ) );
+
+		$this->assertFalse( alltfo_can_read_entry( $seeded['entry_id'] ), 'Without the capability nothing is readable.' );
+		$this->assertFalse( alltfo_can_read_entry( 987654 ) );
+	}
+
 	/* ---------------------------------------------------------------- Export */
 
 	/**