diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index aae4275bf..939dacd6c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,15 @@ Newest first. `Unreleased` is what is on `main` and not yet tagged.
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+### A Bot's own decline is only recorded against a Bot the caller may reach
+
+A Bot reports that it declined a request through the person's session, and the audit row says
+`reportedBy: the Bot itself`. The route wrote that row for any agent id in the path, without asking
+whether the caller could reach that Bot, so any signed-in person could put a decline, in any words,
+against any coworker, one they cannot see included, and an administrator reading the trail would take
+it for something the Bot said. The route now asks the store first, as every other route on a Bot
+does, and answers not found for a Bot the caller cannot reach, writing nothing.
+
 ### The engine socket the supervisor is given can be pointed somewhere else
 
 Compose mounted `/var/run/docker.sock` into the supervisor as a fixed path. That is correct for
diff --git a/server/src/agents/routes.ts b/server/src/agents/routes.ts
index aec1a557b..dc398f7a5 100644
--- a/server/src/agents/routes.ts
+++ b/server/src/agents/routes.ts
@@ -215,6 +215,21 @@ export function createAgentRoutes(
       return context.json({ error: "A reason is required." }, 400);
     }
 
+    /*
+     * The same question every other route here asks first: is this a Bot the caller may reach?
+     *
+     * The row says "reportedBy: the Bot itself", and the Bot reports through the person's session,
+     * so the trail's only way of knowing the report came from a Bot is that the person could have
+     * been talking to that Bot. Without this check, any signed-in person could write a decline
+     * against any id at all, a coworker they cannot see included, and an administrator reading the
+     * trail would take it for something the Bot said. Not found rather than forbidden, as the store
+     * answers everywhere else, so the check does not confirm which ids exist.
+     */
+    const agent = await store.get(context.var.actor, agentId);
+    if (!agent) {
+      return context.json({ error: "Agent not found." }, 404);
+    }
+
     if (auditStore) {
       const actor = context.var.actor;
       await recordAuditEvent(auditStore, {
diff --git a/server/tests/bot-lifecycle-audit.test.ts b/server/tests/bot-lifecycle-audit.test.ts
index 00c18128c..2ace6ea3f 100644
--- a/server/tests/bot-lifecycle-audit.test.ts
+++ b/server/tests/bot-lifecycle-audit.test.ts
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ function app(overrides: Record<string, unknown> = {}) {
   };
 
   const store = {
+    get: async (_actor: unknown, id: string) =>
+      id === "bot-1" ? { id: "bot-1", name: "Sales" } : null,
     create: async () => ({ id: "bot-1", name: "Sales" }),
     update: async () => ({ id: "bot-1", name: "Sales" }),
     duplicate: async () => ({ id: "bot-2", name: "Sales copy" }),
@@ -209,6 +211,42 @@ describe("what a Bot is, on the trail", () => {
     expect(rows).toHaveLength(0);
   });
 
+  test("a decline is recorded against a Bot the caller may reach", async () => {
+    // The Bot reports through the person's session, so the row is only worth what that session
+    // could reach: a decline on a Bot the caller may talk to is the Bot's own word.
+    const { rows, hono } = app();
+
+    const response = await hono.request("http://t/api/agents/bot-1/declined", {
+      method: "POST",
+      headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
+      body: JSON.stringify({ reason: "It asked me to delete the ledger." }),
+    });
+
+    expect(response.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(rows[0]?.eventType).toBe("bot.declined");
+    expect(rows[0]?.targetId).toBe("bot-1");
+    expect(rows[0]?.payload.reportedBy).toBe("the Bot itself");
+  });
+
+  test("a decline against a Bot the caller cannot reach is not found, and writes nothing", async () => {
+    // Every other route here asks the store first. Without the same question, a signed-in person
+    // could write "the Bot itself declined" against any id at all and an administrator would read
+    // it as something the Bot said.
+    const { rows, hono } = app();
+
+    const response = await hono.request(
+      "http://t/api/agents/somebody-elses-bot/declined",
+      {
+        method: "POST",
+        headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
+        body: JSON.stringify({ reason: "Forged." }),
+      },
+    );
+
+    expect(response.status).toBe(404);
+    expect(rows).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+
   test("a trail that is down does not fail the change", async () => {
     // The Bot is already updated and the caller has been told so.
     const failing: AuditStore = {