diff --git a/fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/member/EnvAllowListScrub.java b/fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/member/EnvAllowListScrub.java
index d56105b..7b328c8 100644
--- a/fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/member/EnvAllowListScrub.java
+++ b/fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/member/EnvAllowListScrub.java
@@ -331,6 +331,22 @@ public final class EnvAllowListScrub {
                   (( _cb633_total += 1 ))
                   [[ -n "${_cb633_allowed[$_cb633_n]-}" ]] && continue
                   case "$_cb633_n" in %s) continue ;; esac
+                  # zsh SPECIAL PARAMETERS. `export UID=` is not a failed command: it is a fatal
+                  # parameter error ("failed to change user ID: operation not permitted") that
+                  # aborts this entire sourced file mid-loop. Everything after it in `env` order
+                  # is then left unscrubbed and the report below is never written — silently,
+                  # because the blanking loop is wrapped in `2>/dev/null`. Guarding the call site
+                  # does NOT help; the abort happens however the assignment is wrapped. The only
+                  # repair is to never attempt these names.
+                  #
+                  # Why this was invisible: `env` lists inherited names first and the names a
+                  # startup file exports last, so the loop blanked the harmless inherited half and
+                  # died immediately before the operator's own exports — exactly the credentials
+                  # this policy exists to remove. Measured on a fleet01 member pane: UID is name
+                  # 42 of 57, and a decoy exported from ~/.zshrc sat at 58, untouched on 8 of 8
+                  # spawns. EnvAllowListScrubTest starts zsh from a CLEARED parent environment,
+                  # where UID is not exported at all, so the whole suite was green throughout.
+                  case "$_cb633_n" in UID|EUID|GID|EGID|PPID|LINENO) continue ;; esac
                   _cb633_blank+=("$_cb633_n")
                 done
 
diff --git a/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/member/EnvAllowListScrubTest.java b/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/member/EnvAllowListScrubTest.java
index 6d16bba..55a44b3 100644
--- a/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/member/EnvAllowListScrubTest.java
+++ b/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/member/EnvAllowListScrubTest.java
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertFalse;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotNull;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNull;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
@@ -118,6 +119,43 @@ class EnvAllowListScrubTest {
                 "allowed N of M with N <= M — the denominator is always reported");
     }
 
+    /**
+     * A pane inherits {@code UID}; a cleared test parent does not. The scrub must survive it.
+     *
+     * <p>Every other test here starts zsh from a CLEARED environment, so {@code UID} is never an
+     * exported name and never reaches the blanking loop. In a real member pane it is exported and
+     * it IS reached — and {@code export UID=} is a fatal zsh parameter error that aborts the whole
+     * sourced file, leaving every later name unscrubbed and writing no report at all. The abort is
+     * silent: the loop is wrapped in {@code 2>/dev/null}.
+     *
+     * <p>The assertion is deliberately "a report exists" rather than "the canary is blanked". The
+     * report is written by the last statement in the file, so its presence proves the script ran
+     * to completion; the canary alone would depend on where it happens to sit in {@code env} order.
+     * Both are checked, but only the first one fails deterministically without the fix.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void scrubSurvivesAnInheritedUidTheWayARealPaneHasIt(@TempDir Path tmp) throws Exception {
+        assumeTrue(Files.isExecutable(ZSH), "/bin/zsh not present — nothing to prove here");
+        Set<String> allowed = MemberEnvAllowList.derive(List.of());
+        Path zdotdir = EnvAllowListScrub.generate(tmp, allowed);
+
+        // The production shape: UID present and exported, as every pane shell inherits it.
+        Map<String, String> paneLikeParent = Map.of(
+                "HOME", System.getProperty("user.home"),
+                "PATH", "/usr/bin:/bin",
+                "SHELL", "/bin/zsh",
+                "UID", "1000",
+                "CB633_CANARY", "must-not-survive-the-scrub");
+        Set<String> survivors = exportedNamesFromCleanParent(paneLikeParent, zdotdir);
+
+        EnvAllowListScrub.ScrubReport report = EnvAllowListScrub.readReport(zdotdir);
+        assertNotNull(report,
+                "an inherited UID must not abort the scrub — no report means the file died mid-loop "
+                        + "and every name after UID in `env` order was left unscrubbed");
+        assertFalse(survivors.contains("CB633_CANARY"),
+                "a non-allow-listed name must still be blanked when UID is in the environment");
+    }
+
     /** A group-shared ZDOTDIR still lets the member truncate and write its pre-created receipt. */
     @Test
     void groupSharedScrubWritesAndReadsItsReport(@TempDir Path tmp) throws Exception {