diff --git a/hypaware-core/plugins-workspace/codex/src/exchange-projector.js b/hypaware-core/plugins-workspace/codex/src/exchange-projector.js
index 496e77b99..4872902a6 100644
--- a/hypaware-core/plugins-workspace/codex/src/exchange-projector.js
+++ b/hypaware-core/plugins-workspace/codex/src/exchange-projector.js
@@ -74,7 +74,10 @@ export function createCodexExchangeProjector(opts = {}) {
     /**
      * @param {AiGatewayExchangeInput} input
      * @param {{
-     *   log?: { info?: (m: string, f?: Record<string, unknown>) => void },
+     *   log?: {
+     *     info?: (m: string, f?: Record<string, unknown>) => void,
+     *     warn?: (m: string, f?: Record<string, unknown>) => void,
+     *   },
      *   isSessionIgnored?: (sessionId: string) => boolean,
      * }} [ctx]
      */
@@ -119,6 +122,19 @@ export function createCodexExchangeProjector(opts = {}) {
       // non-codex traffic never scans.
       const cwd = firstString(codexContext?.cwd, readRecordedCwd(reqBody))
         ?? (codexContext?.session_id ? rolloutCwd?.resolve(codexContext.session_id) : undefined)
+      // @ref LLP 0083#decision [implements]: a refused workspace substitution is
+      // observable, not silent - it means the gate is measuring a different
+      // directory than it would have. Paths are hashed: this seam sees LLM traffic.
+      if (codexContext?.refused_workspace_cwd) {
+        ctx?.log?.warn?.('plugin.codex.usage_policy_workspace_cwd_refused', {
+          component: 'codex',
+          operation: 'usage_policy_workspace_cwd_refused',
+          error_kind: 'workspace_cwd_mismatch',
+          workspace_sha256: sha256Hex(codexContext.refused_workspace_cwd).slice(0, 16),
+          cwd_sha256: cwd ? sha256Hex(cwd).slice(0, 16) : undefined,
+          exchange_id: input.exchange_id,
+        })
+      }
       if (cwd) {
         const policy = resolver.resolve(cwd)
         if (policy.class === 'ignore') {
@@ -646,10 +662,8 @@ function resolveCodexContext(input, provider, path, reqBody) {
   const metadata = readCodexTurnMetadata(input)
   const userAgent = readHeader(input.request_headers, 'user-agent')
   const client = codexClientFromUserAgent(userAgent)
-  const workspace = selectCodexWorkspace(
-    metadata,
-    firstString(readRecordedCwd(reqBody), readStringKey(metadata, 'cwd'))
-  )
+  const inBandCwd = firstString(readRecordedCwd(reqBody), readStringKey(metadata, 'cwd'))
+  const workspace = selectCodexWorkspace(metadata, inBandCwd)
   const workspaceInfo = workspace?.info
   const remoteUrls = isPlainObject(workspaceInfo?.associated_remote_urls)
     ? workspaceInfo.associated_remote_urls
@@ -709,7 +723,19 @@ function resolveCodexContext(input, provider, path, reqBody) {
     parent_thread_id,
     turn_id,
     thread_source,
-    cwd: workspace?.path,
+    // @ref LLP 0083#decision [implements]: an explicit in-band cwd outranks the
+    // workspace key for the ONE resolved cwd (gate + stamp). `selectCodexWorkspace`
+    // substitutes the first `workspaces` key when none matches, which is a guess
+    // about a directory the session may never have run in, so it must not decide
+    // a `.hypignore` verdict. The key still enriches (`attributes.codex.workspace`,
+    // git_*) and still supplies the cwd on the subscription route, where the
+    // request states none and the key is the only in-band source there is.
+    cwd: firstString(inBandCwd, workspace?.path),
+    // Set only when the substitution was refused, so the caller can log it
+    // rather than let a discarded guess vanish.
+    refused_workspace_cwd: workspace && inBandCwd && !pathsEqual(workspace.path, inBandCwd)
+      ? workspace.path
+      : undefined,
     client_version: client.version,
     entrypoint: originator,
     sandbox,
diff --git a/llp/0083-codex-live-cwd-from-rollout.decision.md b/llp/0083-codex-live-cwd-from-rollout.decision.md
index cd5c31436..4b778010c 100644
--- a/llp/0083-codex-live-cwd-from-rollout.decision.md
+++ b/llp/0083-codex-live-cwd-from-rollout.decision.md
@@ -70,6 +70,45 @@ Codex now has the symmetric fallback.
 - **One resolved `cwd`, used twice.** The same value feeds the `.hypignore` drop
   and the row's stamped `cwd`, so live rows now carry the cwd the backfill reads
   and the two halves of the policy agree (closes the live/backfill inconsistency).
+- **A substituted workspace key never decides the verdict** (amended, #476). The
+  Codex projector picks a `workspaces` turn-metadata key for enrichment, falling
+  back to the *first* key when none matches the request's `cwd`. That substituted
+  key is a guess about a directory the session may never have run in, so it does
+  not supply the one resolved `cwd`: an explicit in-band `cwd` outranks it for
+  both the gate and the stamp, and the refusal is reported as
+  `plugin.codex.usage_policy_workspace_cwd_refused`
+  (`error_kind: workspace_cwd_mismatch`, paths hashed). The key keeps its
+  enrichment role (`attributes.codex.workspace`, `git_remote`, `git_commit`,
+  `has_changes`) and still supplies the `cwd` on the subscription route, where
+  the request states none and the key is the only in-band source there is.
+  Consequence: for a session running in a *subdirectory* of its workspace the
+  row now stamps the subdirectory rather than the workspace root, which is the
+  directory the policy is actually scoped to.
+  Three limits, stated rather than implied, and each one filed so it does not
+  live only here. The key still outranks the **rollout** fallback (it resolves
+  before the `??`), so a subscription-route session that declares a `workspaces`
+  map never consults `session_meta.cwd` and a first-key guess can still decide
+  its verdict (#480). That one is pre-existing, verified byte-identical before
+  and after this amendment; ranking the guess below the rollout is a separate
+  call, not taken in the lines PRs #467/#474 rewrite. Because the key keeps
+  enriching, a row recorded where it used to drop (clean in-band `cwd`, ignored
+  declared workspace) carries that workspace's identity even though the
+  directory it names is `.hypignore`-ignored: the gate is scoped by `cwd`
+  ([LLP 0049](./0049-hypignore-usage-policy.spec.md#scope)), not by enrichment
+  source (#481). And the gate does not canonicalize paths, so *which spelling*
+  reaches it decides the verdict: a symlinked spelling of an ignored directory
+  escapes its `.hypignore`, because the ancestor walk climbs the symlink's own
+  parents and never meets the governing file. That is a property of the shared
+  matcher rather than of this amendment (#479, and it is also why `pathsEqual`
+  misses symlinked spellings here). What this amendment changes is which of two
+  symmetric spellings trips it, by taking the client's honest `cwd` over the
+  key's: it closes the case where the *key* held the non-canonical spelling and
+  opens the case where the *request* does. The widest case is untouched, a
+  declared symlinked key on a subscription-route request that states no `cwd` at
+  all, which leaks the same before and after. Canonicalizing belongs in the
+  shared matcher ([LLP 0050](./0050-ignore-enforced-in-adapters.decision.md)),
+  where it must also canonicalize the `local-only` list entries or it un-governs
+  an entry a user marked by its symlink spelling.
 
 ## Why not the alternatives
 
diff --git a/test/plugins/codex-exchange-projector.test.js b/test/plugins/codex-exchange-projector.test.js
index f08ea6cd2..a85460910 100644
--- a/test/plugins/codex-exchange-projector.test.js
+++ b/test/plugins/codex-exchange-projector.test.js
@@ -1051,6 +1051,183 @@ test('Codex workspace selection prefers recorded cwd over first metadata key', (
   assert.equal(projection.attributes.codex.git_origin_url, 'git@github.com:acme/actual.git')
 })
 
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+// A substituted workspace key must not decide a privacy verdict (#476)
+//
+// @ref LLP 0083#decision [tests]: `selectCodexWorkspace` falls back to the
+// first `workspaces` key when none matches the request's cwd. That fallback is
+// load-bearing on the subscription route (no in-band cwd at all), but when the
+// request DOES state a cwd the substituted key is a guess about a directory the
+// session never ran in, and it used to be the `.hypignore` gate's input.
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+test('the .hypignore gate uses the request cwd, not a substituted workspace key (#476 case a)', () => {
+  // The leak: the session really ran in an IGNORED tree, but the only declared
+  // workspace is a clean one, so the verdict used to be computed for the clean
+  // tree and the opted-out exchange was recorded.
+  const projector = createCodexExchangeProjector({
+    resolver: ignoringResolver('/work/ignored'),
+  })
+  const projection = projector.project(exchange({
+    path: '/backend-api/codex/responses',
+    provider: 'chatgpt',
+    request_headers: JSON.stringify({
+      'x-codex-turn-metadata': JSON.stringify({
+        thread_id: 'thread-476a',
+        workspaces: { '/work/clean/proj': {} },
+      }),
+    }),
+    request_body: JSON.stringify({ cwd: '/work/ignored/real', input: 'secret' }),
+    response_body: JSON.stringify({ output_text: 'done' }),
+  }), context())
+  assert.equal(projection, USAGE_POLICY_DROP, 'the request cwd is ignored, so the exchange must drop')
+})
+
+test('an unrelated ignored workspace key does not drop a session it never covered (#476 case b)', () => {
+  // The mirror failure: the session ran in a clean tree, the only declared
+  // workspace is an ignored one, and the substitution used to force a drop.
+  const projector = createCodexExchangeProjector({
+    resolver: ignoringResolver('/work/ignored'),
+  })
+  const projection = /** @type {any} */ (projector.project(exchange({
+    path: '/backend-api/codex/responses',
+    provider: 'chatgpt',
+    request_headers: JSON.stringify({
+      'x-codex-turn-metadata': JSON.stringify({
+        thread_id: 'thread-476b',
+        workspaces: { '/work/ignored/proj': {} },
+      }),
+    }),
+    request_body: JSON.stringify({ cwd: '/work/clean/real', input: 'go' }),
+    response_body: JSON.stringify({ output_text: 'done' }),
+  }), context()))
+  assert.ok(projection && projection !== USAGE_POLICY_DROP, 'no .hypignore covers this session')
+  assert.equal(projection.cwd, '/work/clean/real', 'the row records where the session actually ran')
+})
+
+test('a refused workspace substitution is logged with hashed paths, not silently applied (#476 case c)', () => {
+  /** @type {Array<{ message: string, fields?: Record<string, unknown> }>} */
+  const warns = []
+  const projector = createCodexExchangeProjector({
+    resolver: ignoringResolver('/work/ignored'),
+  })
+  const log = {
+    debug() {},
+    info() {},
+    error() {},
+    /** @param {string} message @param {Record<string, unknown>=} fields */
+    warn: (message, fields) => { warns.push({ message, fields }) },
+  }
+  // A relative cwd cannot equal any absolute workspace key, so the
+  // substitution used to run AHEAD of any in-band cwd check and drop on the
+  // unrelated ignored key without a word in the log.
+  const projection = projector.project(exchange({
+    path: '/backend-api/codex/responses',
+    provider: 'chatgpt',
+    request_headers: JSON.stringify({
+      'x-codex-turn-metadata': JSON.stringify({
+        thread_id: 'thread-476c',
+        workspaces: { '/work/ignored/proj': {} },
+      }),
+    }),
+    request_body: JSON.stringify({ cwd: 'sub', input: 'go' }),
+    response_body: JSON.stringify({ output_text: 'done' }),
+  }), { log })
+  assert.ok(projection && projection !== USAGE_POLICY_DROP, 'the guessed workspace must not decide the verdict')
+  const refused = warns.find((e) => e.message === 'plugin.codex.usage_policy_workspace_cwd_refused')
+  assert.ok(refused, 'expected a usage_policy_workspace_cwd_refused warn')
+  assert.equal(refused.fields?.error_kind, 'workspace_cwd_mismatch')
+  assert.equal(refused.fields?.component, 'codex')
+  // This repo captures LLM traffic: the signal carries hashes, never raw paths.
+  assert.ok(
+    !JSON.stringify(refused.fields).includes('/work/ignored/proj'),
+    'the refused workspace path is hashed, never logged raw',
+  )
+})
+
+test('a refused workspace substitution still enriches the row from the workspace key (#476)', () => {
+  // The substitution keeps its ENRICHMENT role: only the gate/stamp cwd is
+  // taken back from it. Losing `workspace` / git identity would be a separate
+  // regression (LLP 0032#capture).
+  const projector = createCodexExchangeProjector({
+    resolver: ignoringResolver('/work/ignored'),
+  })
+  const projection = /** @type {any} */ (projector.project(exchange({
+    path: '/backend-api/codex/responses',
+    provider: 'chatgpt',
+    request_headers: JSON.stringify({
+      'x-codex-turn-metadata': JSON.stringify({
+        thread_id: 'thread-476d',
+        workspaces: {
+          '/work/clean/proj': {
+            associated_remote_urls: { origin: 'git@github.com:acme/clean.git' },
+            latest_git_commit_hash: 'deadbeef',
+          },
+        },
+      }),
+    }),
+    request_body: JSON.stringify({ cwd: '/work/clean/elsewhere', input: 'go' }),
+    response_body: JSON.stringify({ output_text: 'done' }),
+  }), context()))
+  assert.equal(projection.cwd, '/work/clean/elsewhere')
+  assert.equal(projection.attributes.codex.workspace, '/work/clean/proj')
+  assert.equal(projection.git_remote, 'git@github.com:acme/clean.git')
+  assert.equal(projection.head_sha, 'deadbeef')
+})
+
+test('the workspace key still supplies the gate cwd when the request states none (#476)', () => {
+  // The subscription route often carries no cwd at all, and then the workspace
+  // key is the ONLY in-band source of one. Refusing it outright would REMOVE
+  // real `.hypignore` coverage, so the fallback must survive this fix.
+  const projector = createCodexExchangeProjector({
+    resolver: ignoringResolver('/work/ignored'),
+  })
+  const projection = projector.project(exchange({
+    path: '/backend-api/codex/responses',
+    provider: 'chatgpt',
+    request_headers: JSON.stringify({
+      'x-codex-turn-metadata': JSON.stringify({
+        thread_id: 'thread-476e',
+        workspaces: { '/work/ignored/proj': {} },
+      }),
+    }),
+    request_body: JSON.stringify({ input: 'secret' }),
+    response_body: JSON.stringify({ output_text: 'done' }),
+  }), context())
+  assert.equal(projection, USAGE_POLICY_DROP, 'the workspace key is the only cwd there is, so it still gates')
+})
+
+test('no workspace-cwd refusal is logged when the key matches or the request states no cwd (#476)', () => {
+  // Guards the refusal predicate from the other side: nothing was substituted
+  // away, so nothing must be reported. Both negative branches at once - the
+  // key matching the request cwd, and no in-band cwd to contradict it.
+  /** @type {Array<{ message: string, fields?: Record<string, unknown> }>} */
+  const warns = []
+  const projector = createCodexExchangeProjector()
+  const log = {
+    debug() {},
+    info() {},
+    error() {},
+    /** @param {string} message @param {Record<string, unknown>=} fields */
+    warn: (message, fields) => { warns.push({ message, fields }) },
+  }
+  const turnMetadata = { thread_id: 'thread-476f', workspaces: { '/work/clean/proj': {} } }
+  for (const body of [{ cwd: '/work/clean/proj', input: 'go' }, { input: 'go' }]) {
+    projector.project(exchange({
+      path: '/backend-api/codex/responses',
+      provider: 'chatgpt',
+      request_headers: JSON.stringify({ 'x-codex-turn-metadata': JSON.stringify(turnMetadata) }),
+      request_body: JSON.stringify(body),
+      response_body: JSON.stringify({ output_text: 'done' }),
+    }), { log })
+  }
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    warns.filter((e) => e.message === 'plugin.codex.usage_policy_workspace_cwd_refused'),
+    [],
+    'an uncontradicted workspace key is not a refusal',
+  )
+})
+
 test('non-codex provider has no codex turn metadata but still stamps identity_source for symmetry', () => {
   const projector = createCodexExchangeProjector()
   const projection = /** @type {any} */ (projector.project(exchange({