diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c458e97..941dacc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -114,6 +114,10 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 - Showed four Field Notes on the homepage (one featured plus three) so a new post no longer pushes an entry off the page.
 
 ### Fixed
+- Kept production secret scanning strict without treating the public
+  `@google/genai` SDK's OAuth schema field name as a leaked credential. The
+  smoke test now requires a value-shaped `client_secret` assignment before
+  failing, matching the container smoke scanner.
 - Added the missing canonical and Open Graph URLs to the Real World Reasoning
   Agent page so production metadata verification recognizes
   `https://ryanbaumann.dev/real-world-reasoning-agent/` as its sole owner.
diff --git a/LEARNINGS.md b/LEARNINGS.md
index b614ad7..d7f1312 100644
--- a/LEARNINGS.md
+++ b/LEARNINGS.md
@@ -418,6 +418,20 @@ Evidence: Social cards were regenerated with `ryanbaumann.dev`; Lab metadata now
 Use next time: Treat a domain move as a dependency inventory, not a string replacement. Check generated text in images, absolute asset URLs, deployment health targets, OAuth origins, email senders, analytics, API referrers, and search ownership before changing DNS.
 
 
+## 2026-07-27 - Secret scans must distinguish identifiers from values
+
+Context: Production smoke rejected the Real World Reasoning browser bundle
+because the public Gemini SDK contains the OAuth schema identifier
+`client_secret`, even though no credential value was present.
+Learning: A browser secret scan should match a credential-shaped assignment,
+not a field name alone. Keep the rule aligned across local and production smoke
+and cover both the allowed schema identifier and a denied long value.
+Evidence: `findServerSecretMarker()` accepts the SDK's
+`oauth2:client_credentials` schema text and rejects an assigned long
+`client_secret` fixture; the focused production-smoke test passes.
+Use next time: When a dependency adds an authentication schema, inspect the
+matched bytes before excluding the asset or weakening the scan.
+
 ## 2026-07-27 - Production smoke must reach metadata gates after config gates
 
 Context: Two deploys built and routed healthy Cloud Run revisions but stopped
diff --git a/scripts/lib/production-smoke.mjs b/scripts/lib/production-smoke.mjs
index dd2216a..7d49081 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/production-smoke.mjs
+++ b/scripts/lib/production-smoke.mjs
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+export const SERVER_SECRET_PATTERNS = [
+  ['OAuth client secret value', /client_secret["']?\s*[:=]\s*["'][^"'\\\s]{12,}/i],
+  ['PEM private key block', /-----BEGIN [A-Z ]*PRIVATE KEY-----/],
+  ['Stripe-style live secret key', /sk_live_[0-9A-Za-z]+/],
+];
+
+export function findServerSecretMarker(text) {
+  return SERVER_SECRET_PATTERNS.find(([, pattern]) => pattern.test(text));
+}
+
 export function expectedPublicAppNames(apps, rootAppCompatibilityName = '') {
   const rootApps = apps.filter((app) => app.path === '/');
   if (rootAppCompatibilityName && rootApps.length !== 1) {
diff --git a/scripts/smoke-production.mjs b/scripts/smoke-production.mjs
index ec519eb..7434202 100644
--- a/scripts/smoke-production.mjs
+++ b/scripts/smoke-production.mjs
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
 import { dirname, resolve } from 'node:path';
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
 
-import { expectedPublicAppNames } from './lib/production-smoke.mjs';
+import { expectedPublicAppNames, findServerSecretMarker } from './lib/production-smoke.mjs';
 
 const REPO_ROOT = resolve(dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), '..');
 const apps = JSON.parse(readFileSync(resolve(REPO_ROOT, 'apps.json'), 'utf8'))
@@ -142,9 +142,8 @@ async function main() {
 
   await check('served assets contain no server-secret markers', async () => {
     const combined = servedText.join('\n');
-    for (const pattern of [/client_secret/i, /-----BEGIN [A-Z ]*PRIVATE KEY-----/, /sk_live_[0-9A-Za-z]+/]) {
-      if (pattern.test(combined)) throw new Error(`matched ${pattern}`);
-    }
+    const marker = findServerSecretMarker(combined);
+    if (marker) throw new Error(`matched ${marker[0]}`);
   });
 
   await check('Strava bundle contains OAuth authorize flow', async () => {
diff --git a/scripts/test/smoke-production.test.mjs b/scripts/test/smoke-production.test.mjs
index e6f5a64..f94d3d0 100644
--- a/scripts/test/smoke-production.test.mjs
+++ b/scripts/test/smoke-production.test.mjs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
 import test from 'node:test';
 
-import { expectedPublicAppNames } from '../lib/production-smoke.mjs';
+import { expectedPublicAppNames, findServerSecretMarker } from '../lib/production-smoke.mjs';
 
 const apps = [
   { name: 'fieldwork', path: '/' },
@@ -22,3 +22,9 @@ test('production smoke rejects an ambiguous compatibility override', () => {
     /requires exactly one public root app/,
   );
 });
+
+test('production secret scan allows schema field names but rejects assigned secret values', () => {
+  assert.equal(findServerSecretMarker('type: "oauth2:client_credentials"; value.client_secret != null'), undefined);
+  assert.equal(findServerSecretMarker('client_secret: "fixture"'), undefined);
+  assert.equal(findServerSecretMarker('client_secret: "actual-secret-value-123"')?.[0], 'OAuth client secret value');
+});