diff --git a/internal/audit/plan/inputs.go b/internal/audit/plan/inputs.go
index 8bc5ec4..db68d9a 100644
--- a/internal/audit/plan/inputs.go
+++ b/internal/audit/plan/inputs.go
@@ -110,6 +110,16 @@ func parseEntityInputs(entity string, raw json.RawMessage) (EntityInputs, error)
 
 // forEntity is the lookup Derive uses: absent entities read as the zero
 // value, per the graceful-degradation contract.
+// ValuesFor answers the operator's value overrides for one entity, keyed by
+// wire property name, and nil where none were supplied.
+//
+// The audit cannot invent a value the API will take for every field: a
+// reachable endpoint, an existing agent's id, the discriminator a polymorphic
+// body is keyed on. These are what the operator supplies in their place.
+func (in *Inputs) ValuesFor(entity string) map[string]any {
+	return in.forEntity(entity).Values
+}
+
 func (in *Inputs) forEntity(entity string) EntityInputs {
 	if in == nil || in.Entities == nil {
 		return EntityInputs{}
diff --git a/internal/audit/run/adaptive_test.go b/internal/audit/run/adaptive_test.go
index 57246a0..e4a08ce 100644
--- a/internal/audit/run/adaptive_test.go
+++ b/internal/audit/run/adaptive_test.go
@@ -544,3 +544,36 @@ func TestUnit_Adaptive_TheReductionKeepsWhatTheCreateNeeded(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("the reduction kept the field the API refused: %#v", recorded.Request)
 	}
 }
+
+// TestUnit_Adaptive_AnOperatorValueReachesTheWire: a value the operator
+// supplies for a field the audit cannot guess is what the live create sends.
+// Run rebuilds every body the plan derived, so a value applied at plan time
+// alone never leaves the plan.
+func TestUnit_Adaptive_AnOperatorValueReachesTheWire(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	s := quirkserver.New(t, quirkserver.Quirks{})
+	opts := strategyOptions(t, s, nil)
+	opts.Inputs = &plan.Inputs{Entities: map[string]plan.EntityInputs{
+		"monitor": {Values: map[string]any{"interval": 42}},
+	}}
+
+	_, sum := mustRun(t, opts)
+
+	var sent map[string]any
+	for _, b := range sum.RequestBodies {
+		if b.Entity == "monitor" && b.Minimal != nil {
+			sent = b.Minimal.Request
+		}
+	}
+	if sent == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("no accepted create was recorded for monitor: %+v", sum.Entities)
+	}
+	if got := sent["interval"]; got != 42 {
+		t.Errorf("interval = %#v, want the operator's value on the wire", got)
+	}
+	// A field the operator said nothing about is still synthesised, so the
+	// override replaces one value rather than the whole body.
+	if got := sent["kind"]; got == nil || got == 42 {
+		t.Errorf("kind = %#v, want the synthesised value", got)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/audit/run/adjust_unit_test.go b/internal/audit/run/adjust_unit_test.go
index 700d75e..00073f2 100644
--- a/internal/audit/run/adjust_unit_test.go
+++ b/internal/audit/run/adjust_unit_test.go
@@ -417,3 +417,36 @@ func TestUnit_Search_MaximalCulpritPrefersTheNamedField(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("culprit = %q, want none", got)
 	}
 }
+
+// TestUnit_Strategize_AnOperatorValueOutranksEverySynthesis: the value an
+// operator supplies is what the skeleton sends, over an example, an enum and
+// the variant's own gate.
+func TestUnit_Strategize_AnOperatorValueOutranksEverySynthesis(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	sk := strategy.Skeleton{
+		Fields: []string{"endpoint", "kind", "name"},
+		Hints: []strategy.SynthHint{
+			{Field: "endpoint", Type: "string", Example: "https://unreachable.invalid"},
+			{Field: "kind", Type: "string", Enum: []any{"ping", "web"}},
+			{Field: "name", Type: "string"},
+		},
+	}
+	values := map[string]any{"endpoint": "https://reachable.example", "kind": "web"}
+
+	body := synthSkeletonBody(sk, "monitor", "tfpfgen", "kind", "ping", values)
+
+	// The operator supplies a value precisely for the field no synthesis can
+	// guess: an example the API cannot reach is still an example.
+	if body["endpoint"] != "https://reachable.example" {
+		t.Errorf("endpoint = %#v, want the operator's value", body["endpoint"])
+	}
+	// Even the gate yields: a discriminator is one of the things an operator
+	// has to supply when the document does not say which shape is valid.
+	if body["kind"] != "web" {
+		t.Errorf("kind = %#v, want the operator's value over the variant gate", body["kind"])
+	}
+	// A field the operator said nothing about is synthesised as before.
+	if body["name"] != "tfpfgen-<runid>-monitor-name" {
+		t.Errorf("name = %#v, want the invented name", body["name"])
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/audit/run/run.go b/internal/audit/run/run.go
index eabefee..47cd464 100644
--- a/internal/audit/run/run.go
+++ b/internal/audit/run/run.go
@@ -76,8 +76,13 @@ type Options struct {
 	// strategy.Strategy describes, under a complexity-scaled per-entity
 	// budget. When Doc is nil the plan is executed as given — the path the
 	// executor's own unit tests take.
-	Doc     *specmodel.Document
-	Config  *config.Config
+	Doc    *specmodel.Document
+	Config *config.Config
+	// Inputs are the operator-supplied values the audit cannot synthesize,
+	// read from audit/inputs.json. The plan resolves parentRefs and skip from
+	// them; the values reach the wire through strategize, which rebuilds every
+	// body the plan derived and would otherwise not see them.
+	Inputs  *plan.Inputs
 	BaseURL string
 	Auth    Auth
 	// NamePrefix marks every created object's name-bearing fields and
@@ -220,13 +225,14 @@ func Run(ctx context.Context, opts Options) ([]observe.Observation, Summary, err
 	var hints map[string]map[string]strategy.SynthHint
 	var strategies map[string]*strategy.Strategy
 	if opts.Plan != nil && opts.Doc != nil && opts.Config != nil {
-		opts.Plan, hints, strategies = strategize(opts.Plan, opts.Doc, opts.Config, opts.NamePrefix)
+		opts.Plan, hints, strategies = strategize(opts.Plan, opts.Doc, opts.Config, opts.NamePrefix, opts.Inputs)
 	}
 	r, err := newRunner(opts)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, Summary{}, err
 	}
 	r.hints = hints
+	r.inputValues = entityValues(opts.Plan, opts.Inputs)
 	r.strategies = strategies
 	defer r.ledger.close()
 
@@ -298,6 +304,10 @@ type runner struct {
 	// loop draws on when it must add a field a refusal named. Nil on a
 	// non-strategy run.
 	hints map[string]map[string]strategy.SynthHint
+	// inputValues carries, per entity, the operator's value overrides, so the
+	// adjustment loop adding a field live uses the same value the plan would
+	// have sent for it.
+	inputValues map[string]map[string]any
 	// strategies carries each entity's compiled strategy, so the inference
 	// can read the hypotheses the run was meant to confirm. Nil on a
 	// non-strategy run, which is what makes such a run skip inference.
diff --git a/internal/audit/run/strategize.go b/internal/audit/run/strategize.go
index 05309fd..fc95416 100644
--- a/internal/audit/run/strategize.go
+++ b/internal/audit/run/strategize.go
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ const (
 // themselves, which the triangulating inference reads for the hypotheses each
 // run was meant to confirm. The input plan is left untouched: a new plan is
 // built so the caller's copy is never mutated.
-func strategize(p *plan.Plan, doc *specmodel.Document, cfg *config.Config, prefix string) (*plan.Plan, map[string]map[string]strategy.SynthHint, map[string]*strategy.Strategy) {
+func strategize(p *plan.Plan, doc *specmodel.Document, cfg *config.Config, prefix string, inputs *plan.Inputs) (*plan.Plan, map[string]map[string]strategy.SynthHint, map[string]*strategy.Strategy) {
 	cls := specmodel.Classify(doc)
 	byKey := make(map[string]specmodel.Classification, len(cls.Entities))
 	for _, c := range cls.Entities {
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ func strategize(p *plan.Plan, doc *specmodel.Document, cfg *config.Config, prefi
 			continue
 		}
 		addr := addressingOf(&ep)
-		ep.Steps = translateProgram(compiled, addr, ep.Entity, prefix)
+		ep.Steps = translateProgram(compiled, addr, ep.Entity, prefix, inputs.ValuesFor(ep.Entity))
 		ep.Budget = plan.Budget{Requests: compiled.Budget.Requests}
 		hints[ep.Entity] = collectHints(compiled)
 		strategies[ep.Entity] = compiled
@@ -142,13 +142,33 @@ func addressingOf(ep *plan.EntityPlan) addressing {
 	return a
 }
 
+// entityValues indexes the operator's value overrides by entity, for every
+// entity the plan carries.
+//
+// The adjustment loop reads them as well as the translator: a field the API
+// forces into a body live is the same field the operator supplied a value for,
+// and synthesising a different one there would send two values for one field
+// across a single run.
+func entityValues(p *plan.Plan, inputs *plan.Inputs) map[string]map[string]any {
+	if p == nil || inputs == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	out := map[string]map[string]any{}
+	for i := range p.Entities {
+		if v := inputs.ValuesFor(p.Entities[i].Entity); len(v) > 0 {
+			out[p.Entities[i].Entity] = v
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
 // translateProgram turns a strategy's ordered, value-free program into
 // executable steps: addressing from addr, request bodies synthesised from the variant
 // skeletons and per-field hints.
-func translateProgram(compiled *strategy.Strategy, addr addressing, entity, prefix string) []plan.Step {
+func translateProgram(compiled *strategy.Strategy, addr addressing, entity, prefix string, values map[string]any) []plan.Step {
 	baseMinimal := map[string]any{}
 	if len(compiled.Variants) > 0 {
-		baseMinimal = synthSkeletonBody(compiled.Variants[0].Minimal, entity, prefix, "", "")
+		baseMinimal = synthSkeletonBody(compiled.Variants[0].Minimal, entity, prefix, "", "", values)
 	}
 	hints := collectHints(compiled)
 
@@ -160,11 +180,11 @@ func translateProgram(compiled *strategy.Strategy, addr addressing, entity, pref
 			steps = append(steps, plan.Step{
 				Kind: s.Kind, Method: addr.createMethod, Path: addr.collectionPath,
 				PathValues: addr.collectionValues,
-				Body:       synthSkeletonBody(v.Minimal, entity, prefix, s.GateField, s.GateValue),
+				Body:       synthSkeletonBody(v.Minimal, entity, prefix, s.GateField, s.GateValue, values),
 			})
 		case plan.StepCreateMaximal:
 			v := findVariant(compiled, s.GateField, s.GateValue)
-			body := synthSkeletonBody(v.Maximal, entity, prefix, s.GateField, s.GateValue)
+			body := synthSkeletonBody(v.Maximal, entity, prefix, s.GateField, s.GateValue, values)
 			steps = append(steps, plan.Step{
 				Kind: s.Kind, Method: addr.createMethod, Path: addr.collectionPath,
 				PathValues: addr.collectionValues, Body: body,
@@ -307,15 +327,26 @@ func countOptional(v strategy.Variant, body map[string]any) int {
 }
 
 // synthSkeletonBody synthesises a create body from a skeleton: one value per
-// field, drawn from that field's hint, with the gate field pinned to the
-// variant's value where one is given.
-func synthSkeletonBody(sk strategy.Skeleton, entity, prefix, gateField, gateValue string) map[string]any {
+// field, drawn from the operator's inputs where they name it and from that
+// field's hint otherwise, with the gate field pinned to the variant's value
+// where one is given.
+//
+// An operator value outranks everything, including the gate: it is supplied
+// precisely for the fields no synthesis can guess — a reachable endpoint, an
+// existing agent's id, the discriminator a polymorphic body is keyed on.
+// Scoped to the body's own fields, as the plan's synthesis is, because a
+// wire property name says nothing about which nested object it belongs to.
+func synthSkeletonBody(sk strategy.Skeleton, entity, prefix, gateField, gateValue string, values map[string]any) map[string]any {
 	byField := make(map[string]strategy.SynthHint, len(sk.Hints))
 	for _, h := range sk.Hints {
 		byField[h.Field] = h
 	}
 	body := map[string]any{}
 	for _, f := range sk.Fields {
+		if v, ok := values[f]; ok {
+			body[f] = v
+			continue
+		}
 		if f == gateField && gateValue != "" {
 			body[f] = typedGate(byField[f], gateValue)
 			continue
@@ -330,6 +361,9 @@ func synthSkeletonBody(sk strategy.Skeleton, entity, prefix, gateField, gateValu
 // synthField synthesises one field the adjustment loop must add live, from its
 // strategy hint when known and from its name and a string default otherwise.
 func (r *runner) synthField(ent *entityState, field string) any {
+	if v, ok := r.inputValues[ent.plan.Entity][field]; ok {
+		return v
+	}
 	if hints := r.hints[ent.plan.Entity]; hints != nil {
 		if h, ok := hints[field]; ok {
 			return synthValue(h, ent.plan.Entity, r.opts.NamePrefix)
diff --git a/internal/cli/audit.go b/internal/cli/audit.go
index ef8cb21..2fd9347 100644
--- a/internal/cli/audit.go
+++ b/internal/cli/audit.go
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ func newAuditRunCommand() *cobra.Command {
 			"responsibility.",
 		Args: exactArgs("tfpfgen audit run [--dir spec] [--config tfpfgen.yaml] [--out audit/observations] [--base-url URL] [--force-api-audit]"),
 		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
-			cfg, p, doc, lock, err := auditPlan(dir, cfgFile)
+			cfg, p, doc, inputs, lock, err := auditPlan(dir, cfgFile)
 			if err != nil {
 				return err
 			}
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ func newAuditRunCommand() *cobra.Command {
 				Plan:    p,
 				Doc:     doc,
 				Config:  cfg,
+				Inputs:  inputs,
 				BaseURL: base,
 				Auth: auditrun.Auth{
 					Method:       cfg.Auth.Method,
@@ -140,7 +141,7 @@ func newAuditCleanupCommand() *cobra.Command {
 		Short: "delete the live test objects a previous audit left behind",
 		Args:  exactArgs("tfpfgen audit cleanup [--dir spec] [--config tfpfgen.yaml] [--base-url URL] [--prefix NAME]"),
 		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
-			cfg, p, _, _, err := auditPlan(dir, cfgFile)
+			cfg, p, _, _, _, err := auditPlan(dir, cfgFile)
 			if err != nil {
 				return err
 			}
@@ -185,46 +186,50 @@ func newAuditCleanupCommand() *cobra.Command {
 	return cmd
 }
 
-// auditPlan loads everything both audit verbs derive from: the config,
-// the revised document, the operator inputs, and the upstream pin the
+// auditPlan loads everything both audit verbs derive from: the config, the
+// revised document, the operator inputs, and the upstream pin the
 // observations are stamped with.
-func auditPlan(dir, cfgFile string) (*config.Config, *plan.Plan, *specmodel.Document, store.Lock, error) {
+//
+// The inputs are answered as well as applied. Derive resolves parentRefs and
+// skip from them, and their values reach the wire only through the run, which
+// rebuilds every body the plan derived.
+func auditPlan(dir, cfgFile string) (*config.Config, *plan.Plan, *specmodel.Document, *plan.Inputs, store.Lock, error) {
 	cfg, err := config.Load(cfgFile)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, nil, nil, store.Lock{}, err
+		return nil, nil, nil, nil, store.Lock{}, err
 	}
 	if !cfg.Audit.Enabled {
-		return nil, nil, nil, store.Lock{}, fmt.Errorf("audit.enabled is false in %s; nothing to do", cfgFile)
+		return nil, nil, nil, nil, store.Lock{}, fmt.Errorf("audit.enabled is false in %s; nothing to do", cfgFile)
 	}
 
 	data, srcPath, err := auditSpecBytes(dir)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, nil, nil, store.Lock{}, err
+		return nil, nil, nil, nil, store.Lock{}, err
 	}
 	doc, err := specmodel.Load(data)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, nil, nil, store.Lock{}, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", srcPath, err)
+		return nil, nil, nil, nil, store.Lock{}, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", srcPath, err)
 	}
 
 	lock, err := store.Verify(dir)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, nil, nil, store.Lock{}, err
+		return nil, nil, nil, nil, store.Lock{}, err
 	}
 
 	rawInputs, err := os.ReadFile(plan.InputsPath)
 	if err != nil && !os.IsNotExist(err) {
-		return nil, nil, nil, store.Lock{}, err
+		return nil, nil, nil, nil, store.Lock{}, err
 	}
 	inputs, err := plan.ParseInputs(rawInputs)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, nil, nil, store.Lock{}, err
+		return nil, nil, nil, nil, store.Lock{}, err
 	}
 
 	p, err := plan.Derive(doc, cfg, inputs)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, nil, nil, store.Lock{}, err
+		return nil, nil, nil, nil, store.Lock{}, err
 	}
-	return cfg, p, doc, lock, nil
+	return cfg, p, doc, inputs, lock, nil
 }
 
 // auditBaseURL picks the audited API's root: the flag, then the config