diff --git a/fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/member/HerdrPeerLauncher.java b/fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/member/HerdrPeerLauncher.java
index 0e7d8c4..6871dda 100644
--- a/fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/member/HerdrPeerLauncher.java
+++ b/fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/member/HerdrPeerLauncher.java
@@ -1049,19 +1049,24 @@ public abstract class HerdrPeerLauncher implements PeerLauncher {
             return null;
         }
         Set<String> allowed = derivedAllowedNames(creds, launch);
-        logAllowListCoverage(allowed);
         String loginShell = resolveEnv("SHELL");
         boolean zsh = loginShell != null && (loginShell.endsWith("/zsh") || loginShell.equals("zsh"));
         if (!zsh) {
             // A non-zsh login shell ignores ZDOTDIR entirely: NO scrub would run, so pretending
             // otherwise would be worse than saying so. Warn loudly and fall back to the CB-596
             // sentinel overlay over the enumerated known: names — weaker (a sourced file can undo
-            // it), but strictly better than nothing.
+            // it), but strictly better than nothing. Deliberately no "allowed N of M" line here: the
+            // scrub this count describes does not run on this path, so printing it would tell an
+            // operator that a fraction of names were blocked when the real number blocked is zero.
+            // logCredentialGap's WARN (below) is the only signal for this path.
             warnNonZsh(loginShell);
             overlayBlockedCredentials(launch.env(), creds);
             logCredentialGap(creds);
             return null;
         }
+        // Only reached when the scrub is actually about to run — the count below describes that
+        // scrub, so it must not be logged before this gate (see the non-zsh branch above).
+        logAllowListCoverage(allowed);
         Path dir = EnvAllowListScrub.generate(Path.of(System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir")), allowed);
         launch.env().put("ZDOTDIR", dir.toAbsolutePath().toString());
         log.info("memberCredentials policy=allow-list: profile={} generated ZDOTDIR {} — derived "
@@ -1086,13 +1091,17 @@ public abstract class HerdrPeerLauncher implements PeerLauncher {
     }
 
     /**
-     * CB-633 follow-up: one INFO line per allow-list spawn, so an operator can read a single log
-     * line and know the scrub ran and how much of the visible environment it will keep. {@code M} is
-     * {@link #hostEnvNames}' size (the daemon's own environment — see that field's javadoc for why it
-     * stands in for the pane's, which the daemon has no channel to inspect at spawn time) and
-     * {@code N} is how many of those names survive {@code allowed} (including the {@code LC_*}
-     * prefix rule). Neither number is a constant: both come from the actual derived set and the
-     * actual environment this spawn sees. Never logs a variable NAME or VALUE — only the counts.
+     * CB-633 follow-up: one INFO line per allow-list spawn WHOSE SCRUB ACTUALLY RUNS, so an operator
+     * can read a single log line and know the scrub ran and how much of the visible environment it
+     * will keep. Callable ONLY from the zsh branch of {@link #applyEnvironmentAllowListPolicy}, after
+     * the shell gate — logging it before that gate (or on the non-zsh fallback, where nothing is
+     * scrubbed) would tell an operator a fraction of names were blocked when the real number blocked
+     * is zero, which is worse than not logging at all. {@code M} is {@link #hostEnvNames}' size (the
+     * daemon's own environment — see that field's javadoc for why it stands in for the pane's, which
+     * the daemon has no channel to inspect at spawn time) and {@code N} is how many of those names
+     * survive {@code allowed} (including the {@code LC_*} prefix rule). Neither number is a constant:
+     * both come from the actual derived set and the actual environment this spawn sees. Never logs a
+     * variable NAME or VALUE — only the counts.
      */
     private void logAllowListCoverage(Set<String> allowed) {
         Set<String> hostNames = hostEnvNames.get();
diff --git a/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/member/HerdrPeerLauncherAllowListWiringTest.java b/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/member/HerdrPeerLauncherAllowListWiringTest.java
index b506582..2e926b2 100644
--- a/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/member/HerdrPeerLauncherAllowListWiringTest.java
+++ b/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/member/HerdrPeerLauncherAllowListWiringTest.java
@@ -196,6 +196,39 @@ class HerdrPeerLauncherAllowListWiringTest {
                         + appender.list.stream().map(ILoggingEvent::getFormattedMessage).toList());
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Lead-review fix: on a NON-zsh shell no scrub ever runs (bash ignores {@code ZDOTDIR}), so the
+     * "allowed N of M" line — which describes what the scrub does — must not be printed there either.
+     * Before this fix the line was logged BEFORE the zsh gate, so a non-zsh host printed e.g.
+     * "allowed 1 of 3" while blocking nothing at all, telling an operator a control ran when it did
+     * not. Real path: goes through {@link HerdrPeerLauncher#spawn}, same as the sibling test above,
+     * with the shell fixed to bash so the fallback branch is the one exercised.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void noAllowedCountLineIsEmittedOnTheNonZshFallbackPath() {
+        FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr();
+        Set<String> hostEnvNames = Set.of(INJECTED, "SOME_UNRELATED_NAME", "ANOTHER_UNRELATED_NAME");
+        WiringLauncher launcher = new WiringLauncher(herdr, allowList(), "/bin/bash", () -> hostEnvNames);
+
+        Logger logger = (Logger) LoggerFactory.getLogger(HerdrPeerLauncher.class);
+        Level original = logger.getLevel();
+        logger.setLevel(Level.INFO);
+        ListAppender<ILoggingEvent> appender = new ListAppender<>();
+        appender.start();
+        logger.addAppender(appender);
+        try {
+            launcher.spawn(new SpawnRequest("test", null, null, null, null, MemberRole.DEV));
+        } finally {
+            logger.detachAppender(appender);
+            logger.setLevel(original);
+        }
+
+        assertFalse(appender.list.stream()
+                        .anyMatch(e -> e.getFormattedMessage().startsWith("member credentials: allowed ")),
+                "no scrub runs on a non-zsh shell, so no 'allowed N of M' count may be printed — got: "
+                        + appender.list.stream().map(ILoggingEvent::getFormattedMessage).toList());
+    }
+
     private static String readAll(Path p) {
         try {
             return Files.readString(p);