diff --git a/e2e/v137-sharing-managed-profiles.spec.ts b/e2e/v137-sharing-managed-profiles.spec.ts
index f21d6137c..a990b7319 100644
--- a/e2e/v137-sharing-managed-profiles.spec.ts
+++ b/e2e/v137-sharing-managed-profiles.spec.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,43 @@ const DOMAIN_READS = {
   documents: "/api/documents/inbound",
 } as const;
 
+/**
+ * v1.37.0 — the record-session assertion the app is currently sending.
+ *
+ * The two API probes in this file are deliberate: they check a status code the
+ * UI does not surface (a MANAGE-only generated read) and a payload the UI
+ * paginates. But a bare `fetch` inside `page.evaluate` carries no
+ * record-session headers, and the fence refuses an unasserted request on any
+ * session that has been inside a shared record — so the probes started failing
+ * with 403 for a reason that had nothing to do with what they test.
+ *
+ * They are NOT an old-bundle simulation and must not become one: that case is
+ * covered deliberately in `src/__tests__/record-session-fence-compat.test.ts`
+ * and `tests/integration/record-session-fence.test.ts`, where the 403 and the
+ * recovery are the subject. Here the subject is the grant level, so the probe
+ * asserts exactly what the app beside it asserts — copied off a real app
+ * request rather than computed, so it cannot drift from what the client
+ * actually believes.
+ */
+function trackFenceAssertion(page: Page): () => {
+  "x-healthlog-record-epoch": string;
+  "x-healthlog-record-scope": string;
+} {
+  let latest = { epoch: "bootstrap", scope: "bootstrap" };
+  page.on("request", (request) => {
+    const headers = request.headers();
+    const epoch = headers["x-healthlog-record-epoch"];
+    const scope = headers["x-healthlog-record-scope"];
+    if (epoch === undefined || scope === undefined) return;
+    if (epoch === "bootstrap") return;
+    latest = { epoch, scope };
+  });
+  return () => ({
+    "x-healthlog-record-epoch": latest.epoch,
+    "x-healthlog-record-scope": latest.scope,
+  });
+}
+
 async function openSwitcher(page: Page) {
   await page.getByRole("button", { name: "User menu" }).first().click();
   await page.locator('[data-slot="account-switcher-trigger"]').click();
@@ -294,6 +331,7 @@ test.describe.serial("scoped sharing browser journeys", () => {
   test("lets an adult WRITE grant add only to the selected record", async ({
     page,
   }) => {
+    const fenceHeaders = trackFenceAssertion(page);
     const record = E2E_LEVEL_RECORDS.find(
       (candidate) => candidate.access === "WRITE",
     );
@@ -324,10 +362,10 @@ test.describe.serial("scoped sharing browser journeys", () => {
     expect((await post).status()).toBeLessThan(300);
 
     await page.reload();
-    const payload = await page.evaluate(async () => {
-      const response = await fetch("/api/measurements");
+    const payload = await page.evaluate(async (headers) => {
+      const response = await fetch("/api/measurements", { headers });
       return { status: response.status, body: await response.json() };
-    });
+    }, fenceHeaders());
     expect(payload.status).toBeLessThan(300);
     expect(JSON.stringify(payload.body)).toContain("124");
     await expect(banner).toHaveAttribute("data-account-id", accountId);
@@ -342,6 +380,7 @@ test.describe.serial("scoped sharing browser journeys", () => {
   test("opens MANAGE-only generated reads without opening adult Settings", async ({
     page,
   }) => {
+    const fenceHeaders = trackFenceAssertion(page);
     const record = E2E_LEVEL_RECORDS.find(
       (candidate) =>
         candidate.access === "MANAGE" && candidate.recordKind === "shared",
@@ -357,10 +396,10 @@ test.describe.serial("scoped sharing browser journeys", () => {
 
     await page.goto("/");
     await expect(banner).toHaveAttribute("data-access-level", "manage");
-    const generatedRead = await page.evaluate(async () => {
-      const response = await fetch("/api/dashboard/summary");
+    const generatedRead = await page.evaluate(async (headers) => {
+      const response = await fetch("/api/dashboard/summary", { headers });
       return response.status;
-    });
+    }, fenceHeaders());
     expect(generatedRead).toBeLessThan(300);
     await expect(
       page.locator('[data-slot="shared-record-unavailable"]'),
diff --git a/src/__tests__/record-fence-headerless-transport-guard.test.ts b/src/__tests__/record-fence-headerless-transport-guard.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2eef9d1f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/__tests__/record-fence-headerless-transport-guard.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,279 @@
+/**
+ * A fenced route may not be reached by a transport that cannot carry a header.
+ *
+ * The record-session fence is asserted on request HEADERS, attached inside
+ * `src/lib/api/api-fetch.ts`. Three browser transports never go through that
+ * wrapper and cannot be made to:
+ *
+ *   * `<img src="/api/…">` — the browser issues the subresource itself;
+ *   * `<iframe src="/api/…">` — likewise, and it is a document load;
+ *   * `<a href="/api/…" download>` — a navigation, not a fetch.
+ *
+ * On a session that has never entered a shared record this is invisible: the
+ * fence exempts `record_epoch = 0`, so a headerless request is served exactly
+ * as it always was. The moment the session enters or leaves a shared record the
+ * epoch moves, the exemption ends, and every one of those three gets
+ * `403 sharing.access.denied` — permanently, because nothing about them will
+ * ever start sending a header. A thumbnail that silently stops rendering after
+ * somebody visits a shared record is the shape of the bug.
+ *
+ * The fix shape already existed in the repository before this guard did:
+ * `src/components/documents/document-ai-transport.ts` reaches
+ * `/api/documents/inbound/{id}/original` through `apiFetchRaw` and turns the
+ * blob into a `File`. Everything here follows it — fetch through the app
+ * transport, hand the DOM an object URL, revoke it on unmount.
+ *
+ * ## What this matcher can and cannot see
+ *
+ * It resolves ONE level of local aliasing: `const src = \`/api/…\`` followed by
+ * `src={src}` is caught, because that is the shape the real offenders had and a
+ * matcher that only read inline literals would have found two of the six and
+ * reported success. It does NOT trace a path built by a helper, assembled
+ * across two hops, or returned from a hook — a future offender in that shape
+ * slips this guard. Said here rather than discovered later.
+ *
+ * It also only knows the routes it can RESOLVE. A path whose route module it
+ * cannot find is reported separately rather than silently passing, because an
+ * unresolvable path is the one case where a green result would mean nothing.
+ */
+import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
+import { existsSync, readFileSync, readdirSync, statSync } from "node:fs";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+
+const SRC = join(process.cwd(), "src");
+const API_ROOT = join(SRC, "app", "api");
+
+/** Client-side trees. `src/app/api` is the server end and is excluded. */
+const CLIENT_ROOTS = [join(SRC, "components"), join(SRC, "app")];
+
+const SKIP_DIRS = new Set([
+  "__tests__",
+  "__mocks__",
+  "node_modules",
+  ".next",
+  "generated",
+]);
+
+function walk(dir: string, out: string[] = []): string[] {
+  for (const name of readdirSync(dir)) {
+    if (SKIP_DIRS.has(name)) continue;
+    const p = join(dir, name);
+    if (statSync(p).isDirectory()) {
+      if (p === API_ROOT) continue;
+      walk(p, out);
+    } else if (
+      (name.endsWith(".ts") || name.endsWith(".tsx")) &&
+      !name.endsWith(".test.ts") &&
+      !name.endsWith(".test.tsx")
+    ) {
+      out.push(p);
+    }
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Resolve an `/api/...` path template to its route module.
+ *
+ * `${…}` segments match any `[param]` directory, which is how
+ * `/api/documents/inbound/${id}/thumbnail` finds
+ * `src/app/api/documents/inbound/[id]/thumbnail/route.ts`. Query strings and
+ * trailing fragments are dropped before matching.
+ */
+function resolveRouteModules(path: string): string[] {
+  const clean = path.split(/[?#]/)[0];
+  const segments = clean
+    .replace(/^\/api\//, "")
+    .split("/")
+    .filter((s) => s.length > 0);
+
+  let dirs = [API_ROOT];
+  for (const segment of segments) {
+    const templated = segment.includes("${");
+    const next: string[] = [];
+    for (const dir of dirs) {
+      if (!existsSync(dir)) continue;
+      if (!templated && existsSync(join(dir, segment))) {
+        next.push(join(dir, segment));
+        continue;
+      }
+      // A templated segment is a WILDCARD over every child directory, literal
+      // and dynamic alike. `${id}` finds `[id]`; `${provider}` finds
+      // `withings`, `fitbit`, `whoop`, `google-health`. Taking only the
+      // dynamic children would have silently dropped the second shape, and a
+      // path that resolves to nothing reads as "no fenced route here".
+      if (!templated) continue;
+      for (const child of readdirSync(dir)) {
+        const p = join(dir, child);
+        if (statSync(p).isDirectory()) next.push(p);
+      }
+    }
+    dirs = next;
+  }
+  return dirs
+    .map((dir) => join(dir, "route.ts"))
+    .filter((module) => existsSync(module));
+}
+
+/** Does this route resolve a RECORD, and therefore consult the fence? */
+function isFenced(routeModule: string): boolean {
+  const src = readFileSync(routeModule, "utf8");
+  return (
+    /\brequireRecordAuth\s*\(/.test(src) ||
+    /\brequireGuardianAuth\s*\(/.test(src)
+  );
+}
+
+interface Reference {
+  file: string;
+  line: number;
+  sink: string;
+  path: string;
+}
+
+const API_LITERAL = /^[`"']((?:\/api\/)[^`"']*)[`"']$/;
+
+/**
+ * Every `/api/...` path handed to a headerless transport in one file.
+ *
+ * Sinks: `src=`, `href=`, and any `window.location` write. Each is resolved
+ * against a one-level alias map built from the file's own
+ * `const NAME = "/api/…"` declarations.
+ */
+/**
+ * Comments are stripped before matching.
+ *
+ * A doc comment that NAMES `src="/api/…"` while explaining why the code no
+ * longer does that is prose, not a transport — and this guard's own
+ * explanations are written in exactly that shape. Commented-out code is
+ * dropped with them, which is correct: it issues no request. Same treatment
+ * and the same reason as `account-payload-consumer-guard.test.ts`.
+ */
+function stripComments(text: string): string {
+  return text.replace(/\/\*[\s\S]*?\*\//g, "").replace(/(^|\s)\/\/.*$/gm, "$1");
+}
+
+function headerlessReferences(file: string, source: string): Reference[] {
+  const aliases = new Map<string, string>();
+  // `const NAME = "/api/…"`, and the ternary form
+  // `const NAME = cond ? \`/api/…\` : "#"` that the download links use. Both
+  // are one hop, which is the documented limit of this resolution.
+  for (const m of source.matchAll(
+    /\b(?:const|let)\s+([A-Za-z_$][\w$]*)\s*(?::[^=\n]+)?=\s*[^;\n]*?([`"'])(\/api\/[^`"']*)\2/g,
+  )) {
+    if (!aliases.has(m[1])) aliases.set(m[1], m[3]);
+  }
+
+  const found: Reference[] = [];
+  const record = (index: number, sink: string, raw: string) => {
+    const trimmed = raw.trim();
+    const literal = API_LITERAL.exec(trimmed);
+    const path = literal ? literal[1] : (aliases.get(trimmed) ?? null);
+    if (path === null) return;
+    found.push({
+      file,
+      line: source.slice(0, index).split("\n").length,
+      sink,
+      path,
+    });
+  };
+
+  // `src={expr}` / `src="literal"` and the same for `href`.
+  //
+  // The expression container is read with a brace COUNTER, not a
+  // `[^}]*` class: a template literal like `` `/api/x/${id}/y` `` contains a
+  // `}` of its own, and a non-counting matcher truncates at it and then fails
+  // to recognise the literal at all. That is how the first draft of this guard
+  // found two of six offenders and reported success.
+  for (const m of source.matchAll(/\b(src|href)=/g)) {
+    const start = m.index + m[0].length;
+    const ch = source[start];
+    if (ch === "{") {
+      let depth = 0;
+      let end = start;
+      for (; end < source.length; end++) {
+        if (source[end] === "{") depth++;
+        else if (source[end] === "}") {
+          depth -= 1;
+          if (depth === 0) break;
+        }
+      }
+      record(m.index, m[1], source.slice(start + 1, end));
+    } else if (ch === '"' || ch === "'" || ch === "`") {
+      const end = source.indexOf(ch, start + 1);
+      if (end !== -1) record(m.index, m[1], source.slice(start, end + 1));
+    }
+  }
+  // Any `window.location` write or navigation.
+  for (const m of source.matchAll(
+    /window\.location(?:\.href)?\s*=\s*([^;\n]+)|window\.location\.(?:assign|replace)\(\s*([^)\n]+)\)/g,
+  )) {
+    record(m.index, "window.location", m[1] ?? m[2] ?? "");
+  }
+  return found;
+}
+
+describe("no headerless browser transport reaches a fenced route", () => {
+  const files = CLIENT_ROOTS.flatMap((root) => walk(root));
+  const references = files.flatMap((file) =>
+    headerlessReferences(
+      file.slice(SRC.length + 1),
+      stripComments(readFileSync(file, "utf8")),
+    ),
+  );
+
+  it("finds a plausible client tree and a plausible set of references", () => {
+    // Non-zero proof, twice: a walk that found nothing, or a matcher that
+    // matched nothing, would make every assertion below vacuous.
+    expect(files.length).toBeGreaterThan(200);
+    expect(references.length).toBeGreaterThan(3);
+  });
+
+  it("resolves every referenced /api path to a route module", () => {
+    // An unresolvable path is the one case where a green result would mean
+    // nothing at all, so it fails loudly rather than being skipped.
+    const unresolved = references.filter(
+      (r) => resolveRouteModules(r.path).length === 0,
+    );
+    expect(unresolved.map((r) => `${r.file}:${r.line} → ${r.path}`)).toEqual(
+      [],
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("resolves a known fenced route, so the fenced check is live", () => {
+    // Without this the leg below would pass for an `isFenced` that always
+    // returned false.
+    const thumbnail = resolveRouteModules(
+      "/api/documents/inbound/${id}/thumbnail",
+    );
+    expect(thumbnail).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(isFenced(thumbnail[0])).toBe(true);
+    const connect = resolveRouteModules("/api/withings/connect");
+    expect(connect).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(isFenced(connect[0])).toBe(false);
+    // The wildcard shape resolves to several real routes, none of them fenced.
+    const providers = resolveRouteModules("/api/${provider}/connect");
+    expect(providers.length).toBeGreaterThan(2);
+    expect(providers.some(isFenced)).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("names no fenced route in a src=, href= or window.location sink", () => {
+    const offenders = references.filter((r) =>
+      resolveRouteModules(r.path).some(isFenced),
+    );
+
+    if (offenders.length > 0) {
+      const report = offenders
+        .map((o) => `  ❌ ${o.file}:${o.line} — ${o.sink}= ${o.path}`)
+        .join("\n");
+      throw new Error(
+        `${offenders.length} headerless reference(s) to a record-fenced route:\n${report}\n\n` +
+          "These cannot carry the record-session fence headers, so they are refused with " +
+          "403 sharing.access.denied on any session that has entered or left a shared " +
+          "record. Fetch through `apiFetchRaw` and hand the DOM an object URL — see " +
+          "`src/components/documents/document-ai-transport.ts` for the shape, and revoke " +
+          "the URL when the component unmounts.",
+      );
+    }
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/components/documents/__tests__/document-card.test.tsx b/src/components/documents/__tests__/document-card.test.tsx
index 6cece6b9a..68e39ec2f 100644
--- a/src/components/documents/__tests__/document-card.test.tsx
+++ b/src/components/documents/__tests__/document-card.test.tsx
@@ -118,7 +118,20 @@ describe("<DocumentCard>", () => {
     expect(html).toContain("befund.docx");
   });
 
-  it("renders the preview thumbnail image when hasThumbnail is set", () => {
+  it("never emits a browser-issued /api subresource for the thumbnail", () => {
+    // v1.37.0 — this used to assert `src="/api/documents/inbound/…/thumbnail"`
+    // in the markup, and that contract is deliberately gone. A `<img src>` is
+    // issued by the BROWSER, so it cannot carry the record-session assertion,
+    // and the fence refuses an unasserted request on any session that has been
+    // inside a shared record — a thumbnail that silently stops rendering for
+    // good. The bytes now come through the app transport as an object URL
+    // (`useFencedObjectUrl`), which means nothing paints on a server render.
+    //
+    // The assertion is inverted rather than deleted: the markup must contain no
+    // `/api/` reference at all. `src/__tests__/record-fence-headerless-transport-guard.test.ts`
+    // holds the same property across the whole client tree, and
+    // `src/hooks/__tests__/use-fenced-object-url.test.ts` proves the request
+    // really does carry the headers.
     const html = render(
       <DocumentCard
         document={doc({ hasThumbnail: true })}
@@ -128,9 +141,11 @@ describe("<DocumentCard>", () => {
         highlighted={false}
       />,
     );
-    expect(html).toContain('data-slot="document-thumbnail"');
-    expect(html).toContain('src="/api/documents/inbound/doc-1/thumbnail"');
-    expect(html).toContain('loading="lazy"');
+    expect(html).not.toContain("/api/documents");
+    // Until the blob lands the card shows its kind icon, exactly as a card
+    // with no thumbnail does — never a broken image.
+    expect(html).not.toContain('data-slot="document-thumbnail"');
+    expect(html).toContain("lucide-scan-line");
   });
 
   it("shows the kind icon (no thumbnail image) when hasThumbnail is false", () => {
diff --git a/src/components/documents/document-card.tsx b/src/components/documents/document-card.tsx
index 3a51fb81b..6fa88499e 100644
--- a/src/components/documents/document-card.tsx
+++ b/src/components/documents/document-card.tsx
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import { Badge } from "@/components/ui/badge";
 import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button";
 import { Card, CardContent } from "@/components/ui/card";
 import { Checkbox } from "@/components/ui/checkbox";
+import { useFencedObjectUrl } from "@/hooks/use-fenced-object-url";
 import { useFormatters, useTranslations } from "@/lib/i18n/context";
 import { cn } from "@/lib/utils";
 import type { InboundDocumentDto } from "@/lib/validations/inbound-documents";
@@ -75,6 +76,16 @@ export function DocumentCard({
   // A preview thumbnail that fails to load (still rendering, decrypt error,
   // 404) falls back to the kind icon — never a broken image.
   const [thumbFailed, setThumbFailed] = useState(false);
+  // v1.37.0 — fetched through the app transport rather than issued by the
+  // browser as a subresource, so it carries the record-session assertion. The
+  // null path means "this card has no thumbnail, or one already failed", which
+  // is what keeps the timeline from firing a request per card for documents
+  // that have nothing to show.
+  const { url: thumbnailUrl, failed: thumbnailFailed } = useFencedObjectUrl(
+    document.hasThumbnail && !thumbFailed
+      ? `/api/documents/inbound/${document.id}/thumbnail`
+      : null,
+  );
 
   // Touch long-press selects instead of opening; the click that the
   // browser fires after the release is swallowed once.
@@ -128,24 +139,26 @@ export function DocumentCard({
     >
       <CardContent className="flex h-full flex-col gap-2 px-4">
         <div className="flex items-start gap-2">
-          {document.hasThumbnail && !thumbFailed ? (
-            // Leading-edge preview tile. `loading="lazy"` + the timeline's
-            // virtualization means only cards near the viewport fetch their
-            // thumbnail. Decorative (alt="") — the title beside it names the
-            // document; an authed same-origin subresource, never cached
-            // cross-user. onError falls back to the kind icon.
+          {thumbnailUrl && !thumbnailFailed ? (
+            // Leading-edge preview tile. Decorative (alt="") — the title
+            // beside it names the document. The laziness that `loading="lazy"`
+            // used to provide now lives in the hook's null path: a card with no
+            // thumbnail, or one whose thumbnail already failed, issues no
+            // request at all. onError falls back to the kind icon.
             <span
               data-slot="document-thumbnail"
               className="bg-muted mt-0.5 block size-12 shrink-0 overflow-hidden rounded-md"
             >
-              {/* Authed, private (no-store) same-origin subresource — next/image
-                  would try to proxy/optimize it, which is wrong for a PHI blob
-                  we deliberately never cache. */}
+              {/* An object URL over bytes the app transport already fetched,
+                  not a `/api/…` subresource: the browser issues a subresource
+                  itself and so cannot carry the record-session assertion, which
+                  the fence refuses on any session that has been inside a shared
+                  record. `next/image` is wrong here for the older reason too —
+                  it would proxy a PHI blob we deliberately never cache. */}
               {/* eslint-disable-next-line @next/next/no-img-element */}
               <img
-                src={`/api/documents/inbound/${document.id}/thumbnail`}
+                src={thumbnailUrl}
                 alt=""
-                loading="lazy"
                 decoding="async"
                 onError={() => setThumbFailed(true)}
                 className="size-full object-cover"
diff --git a/src/components/documents/document-detail-sheet.tsx b/src/components/documents/document-detail-sheet.tsx
index 6f71d0018..2ddb73d4d 100644
--- a/src/components/documents/document-detail-sheet.tsx
+++ b/src/components/documents/document-detail-sheet.tsx
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ import {
 import { useFormatters, useTranslations } from "@/lib/i18n/context";
 import { useCoachLaunch } from "@/lib/insights/coach-launch-context";
 import { invalidateKeys, queryKeys } from "@/lib/query-keys";
+import { useFencedObjectUrl } from "@/hooks/use-fenced-object-url";
 import { cn } from "@/lib/utils";
 import {
   INBOUND_DOCUMENT_KINDS,
@@ -105,7 +106,12 @@ function InlinePreview({
   title: string;
 }) {
   const [loaded, setLoaded] = useState(false);
-  const src = `/api/documents/inbound/${documentId}/original`;
+  // v1.37.0 — the bytes come through the app transport, which carries the
+  // record-session assertion; a browser-issued `src="/api/…"` cannot, and the
+  // fence refuses it on any session that has been inside a shared record.
+  const { url: src, failed } = useFencedObjectUrl(
+    `/api/documents/inbound/${documentId}/original`,
+  );
   const isPdf = mimeType === "application/pdf";
   // Chromium's PDF viewer grabs focus while it initialises — BEFORE the
   // frame's `load` event — stranding keyboard events inside the embedded
@@ -144,12 +150,23 @@ function InlinePreview({
 
   return (
     <div className="relative max-h-[55vh] overflow-auto overscroll-contain rounded-lg">
-      {!loaded ? (
+      {failed ? (
+        // The preview could not be fetched — refused, offline, or still
+        // rendering server-side. A permanent skeleton would read as "loading
+        // forever"; the sheet's own metadata and the download control below
+        // still work.
+        <p
+          data-slot="document-preview-unavailable"
+          className="text-muted-foreground py-8 text-center text-sm"
+        >
+          {title}
+        </p>
+      ) : !loaded || src === null ? (
         <Skeleton
           className={cn("w-full rounded-lg", isPdf ? "h-[55vh]" : "h-64")}
         />
       ) : null}
-      {isPdf ? (
+      {src === null || failed ? null : isPdf ? (
         // No `sandbox` attribute by design: Chromium force-downloads PDFs
         // in sandboxed frames instead of rendering them. The serve
         // response itself carries `default-src 'none'` +
@@ -487,7 +504,13 @@ export function DocumentDetailSheet({
 
   const title = doc?.title ?? doc?.filename ?? t("documents.card.untitled");
   const Icon = doc ? DOCUMENT_KIND_ICONS[doc.kind] : null;
-  const originalHref = doc ? `/api/documents/inbound/${doc.id}/original` : "#";
+  // v1.37.0 — an object URL over transport-fetched bytes rather than a bare
+  // `/api/…` href. A download navigation carries no record-session assertion,
+  // so the fence refuses it once the session has been inside a shared record.
+  // Null until the blob lands; the anchor is disabled rather than dead.
+  const { url: originalHref } = useFencedObjectUrl(
+    doc ? `/api/documents/inbound/${doc.id}/original` : null,
+  );
 
   return (
     <>
@@ -590,7 +613,11 @@ export function DocumentDetailSheet({
                   data-slot="document-download"
                   aria-label={t("documents.detail.download")}
                 >
-                  <a href={originalHref} download={doc.filename ?? undefined}>
+                  <a
+                    href={originalHref ?? "#"}
+                    download={doc.filename ?? undefined}
+                    aria-disabled={originalHref === null}
+                  >
                     <Download className="size-4" aria-hidden />
                     <span className="hidden sm:inline">
                       {t("documents.detail.download")}
@@ -637,7 +664,11 @@ export function DocumentDetailSheet({
                   {formatBytes(doc.byteSize, locale)}
                 </p>
                 <Button asChild size="sm" className="mt-1">
-                  <a href={originalHref} download={doc.filename ?? undefined}>
+                  <a
+                    href={originalHref ?? "#"}
+                    download={doc.filename ?? undefined}
+                    aria-disabled={originalHref === null}
+                  >
                     <Download className="size-4" aria-hidden />
                     {t("documents.detail.download")}
                   </a>
diff --git a/src/hooks/__tests__/use-fenced-object-url.test.ts b/src/hooks/__tests__/use-fenced-object-url.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..755083ad7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/hooks/__tests__/use-fenced-object-url.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+/**
+ * Reaching a fenced route from the DOM without a headerless request.
+ *
+ * Two properties, both of which go wrong quietly:
+ *
+ *   * the bytes travel through the app transport, so the request carries the
+ *     record-session assertion. A plain `fetch` here would reintroduce the
+ *     exact class `record-fence-headerless-transport-guard.test.ts` exists to
+ *     catch, and nothing visible would change until somebody entered a shared
+ *     record;
+ *   * every object URL is revoked. Getting that wrong leaks a decrypted health
+ *     document into the tab for as long as the tab lives, and the UI never
+ *     shows it. The hard case is a response that lands after the caller has
+ *     moved on — a fast scroll through the vault timeline changes the path far
+ *     more often than the network answers.
+ *
+ * The unit suite runs in `node` with no DOM, so the React hook cannot be
+ * rendered here. That is why the lifecycle rule lives in
+ * `createFencedBlobLoader` rather than inside the effect: an untested
+ * revocation rule is exactly the kind that is wrong.
+ */
+import { describe, expect, it, vi, beforeEach, afterEach } from "vitest";
+
+import { createFencedBlobLoader } from "@/hooks/use-fenced-object-url";
+import {
+  __resetRecordFenceForTests,
+  adoptRecordFenceState,
+} from "@/lib/api/record-fence";
+
+const created: string[] = [];
+const revoked: string[] = [];
+let counter = 0;
+
+/** A deferred blob response, so a load can be left in flight deliberately. */
+function pendingResponse() {
+  let settle!: () => void;
+  const gate = new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+    settle = resolve;
+  });
+  return {
+    settle,
+    fetch: vi.fn(async () => {
+      await gate;
+      return new Response(new Blob(["bytes"]));
+    }),
+  };
+}
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  created.length = 0;
+  revoked.length = 0;
+  counter = 0;
+  __resetRecordFenceForTests();
+  vi.stubGlobal("URL", {
+    createObjectURL: vi.fn(() => {
+      const url = `blob:mock/${counter++}`;
+      created.push(url);
+      return url;
+    }),
+    revokeObjectURL: vi.fn((url: string) => {
+      revoked.push(url);
+    }),
+  });
+});
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  vi.unstubAllGlobals();
+  __resetRecordFenceForTests();
+});
+
+describe("createFencedBlobLoader", () => {
+  it("carries the record-session assertion on the request", async () => {
+    adoptRecordFenceState({ epoch: 4, scope: "owner-1" });
+    const fetchMock = vi.fn(async () => new Response(new Blob(["bytes"])));
+    vi.stubGlobal("fetch", fetchMock);
+
+    await createFencedBlobLoader().load(
+      "/api/documents/inbound/doc-1/thumbnail",
+    );
+
+    expect(fetchMock).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    const [, init] = fetchMock.mock.calls[0] as unknown as [
+      string,
+      RequestInit,
+    ];
+    const headers = new Headers(init.headers);
+    // The whole point: a browser-issued `<img src>` cannot send these, which is
+    // why the bytes come through the transport instead.
+    expect(headers.get("x-healthlog-record-epoch")).toBe("4");
+    expect(headers.get("x-healthlog-record-scope")).toBe("owner-1");
+  });
+
+  it("hands back an object URL once the blob lands", async () => {
+    vi.stubGlobal(
+      "fetch",
+      vi.fn(async () => new Response(new Blob(["bytes"]))),
+    );
+
+    const result = await createFencedBlobLoader().load("/api/x/y");
+
+    expect(result).toEqual({ kind: "loaded", url: "blob:mock/0" });
+    expect(created).toEqual(["blob:mock/0"]);
+    expect(revoked).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it("revokes the live URL on dispose", async () => {
+    vi.stubGlobal(
+      "fetch",
+      vi.fn(async () => new Response(new Blob(["bytes"]))),
+    );
+
+    const loader = createFencedBlobLoader();
+    await loader.load("/api/x/y");
+    loader.dispose();
+
+    expect(revoked).toEqual(["blob:mock/0"]);
+  });
+
+  it("revokes a response that lands AFTER dispose instead of storing it", async () => {
+    // The leak that has no visible symptom: the component unmounted, nothing
+    // will ever render this, and without the check it stays alive for the life
+    // of the tab.
+    const { settle, fetch } = pendingResponse();
+    vi.stubGlobal("fetch", fetch);
+
+    const loader = createFencedBlobLoader();
+    const inFlight = loader.load("/api/x/y");
+    loader.dispose();
+    settle();
+
+    expect(await inFlight).toEqual({ kind: "superseded" });
+    expect(created).toEqual(["blob:mock/0"]);
+    expect(revoked).toEqual(["blob:mock/0"]);
+  });
+
+  it("revokes a response superseded by a newer load", async () => {
+    const first = pendingResponse();
+    vi.stubGlobal("fetch", first.fetch);
+
+    const loader = createFencedBlobLoader();
+    const stale = loader.load("/api/x/1");
+
+    vi.stubGlobal(
+      "fetch",
+      vi.fn(async () => new Response(new Blob(["newer"]))),
+    );
+    const fresh = await loader.load("/api/x/2");
+    first.settle();
+
+    expect(await stale).toEqual({ kind: "superseded" });
+    expect(fresh).toEqual({ kind: "loaded", url: "blob:mock/0" });
+    // The superseded one was revoked; the live one was not.
+    expect(revoked).toEqual(["blob:mock/1"]);
+    expect(created).toEqual(["blob:mock/0", "blob:mock/1"]);
+  });
+
+  it("revokes the previous URL when the same loader loads again", async () => {
+    vi.stubGlobal(
+      "fetch",
+      vi.fn(async () => new Response(new Blob(["bytes"]))),
+    );
+
+    const loader = createFencedBlobLoader();
+    await loader.load("/api/x/1");
+    await loader.load("/api/x/2");
+
+    expect(created).toEqual(["blob:mock/0", "blob:mock/1"]);
+    expect(revoked).toEqual(["blob:mock/0"]);
+  });
+
+  it("reports a refusal as failed rather than leaving the caller loading", async () => {
+    vi.stubGlobal(
+      "fetch",
+      vi.fn(async () => new Response("no", { status: 403 })),
+    );
+
+    const result = await createFencedBlobLoader().load("/api/x/y");
+
+    expect(result).toEqual({ kind: "failed" });
+    // Nothing was created, so nothing needs revoking.
+    expect(created).toEqual([]);
+    expect(revoked).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it("reports a transport-level throw as failed too", async () => {
+    vi.stubGlobal(
+      "fetch",
+      vi.fn(async () => {
+        throw new TypeError("offline");
+      }),
+    );
+
+    expect(await createFencedBlobLoader().load("/api/x/y")).toEqual({
+      kind: "failed",
+    });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/hooks/use-fenced-object-url.ts b/src/hooks/use-fenced-object-url.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..308a8fd58
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/hooks/use-fenced-object-url.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
+"use client";
+
+import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
+
+import { apiFetchRaw } from "@/lib/api/api-fetch";
+
+/**
+ * v1.37.0 — reach a record-fenced route from the DOM without a headerless
+ * request.
+ *
+ * `<img src>`, `<iframe src>` and `<a href download>` are issued by the browser
+ * itself. They never pass through `src/lib/api/api-fetch.ts`, so they carry no
+ * record-session assertion — and once a session has entered or left a shared
+ * record the fence refuses an unasserted request with 403
+ * `sharing.access.denied`, permanently, because nothing about those three will
+ * ever start sending a header. The visible symptom is a thumbnail that stops
+ * rendering for good after somebody visits a shared record.
+ *
+ * So the bytes are fetched through the app transport, which attaches the
+ * assertion and validates the echo, and the DOM is handed an object URL
+ * instead. The shape is not new here: `document-ai-transport.ts` already
+ * reaches `/api/documents/inbound/{id}/original` this way to build a `File` for
+ * in-browser OCR. `src/__tests__/record-fence-headerless-transport-guard.test.ts`
+ * is what keeps a future `src="/api/…"` from reintroducing the class.
+ *
+ * ## Why the loader is separate from the hook
+ *
+ * Revocation is the part worth being careful about: getting it wrong leaks a
+ * decrypted health document into the tab's memory for as long as the tab lives,
+ * and nothing in the UI ever shows it. The unit suite runs in `node` with no
+ * DOM and no testing-library, so a hook cannot be rendered here — and an
+ * untested revocation rule is exactly the kind that is wrong. The rule
+ * therefore lives in {@link createFencedBlobLoader}, which is a plain object
+ * with `load` and `dispose`, fully exercised in
+ * `src/hooks/__tests__/use-fenced-object-url.test.ts`. The hook below is the
+ * thin React lifecycle shell over it.
+ */
+export interface FencedObjectUrl {
+  /** The object URL, or null while loading, disabled, or failed. */
+  url: string | null;
+  /** The fetch finished and did not produce bytes. Render the fallback. */
+  failed: boolean;
+}
+
+/** What one load produced. */
+export type FencedBlobResult =
+  { kind: "loaded"; url: string } | { kind: "failed" } | { kind: "superseded" };
+
+/**
+ * A one-slot object-URL holder.
+ *
+ * Holds at most one live URL. Loading again revokes the previous one; a
+ * response that lands after `dispose()` or after a newer `load()` is revoked
+ * immediately rather than stored, which is the case a fast scroll through the
+ * vault timeline produces constantly — the path changes far more often than the
+ * network answers.
+ */
+export function createFencedBlobLoader() {
+  let current: string | null = null;
+  let generation = 0;
+  let disposed = false;
+
+  const release = () => {
+    if (current !== null) {
+      URL.revokeObjectURL(current);
+      current = null;
+    }
+  };
+
+  return {
+    async load(path: string): Promise<FencedBlobResult> {
+      const mine = ++generation;
+      release();
+      let url: string | null = null;
+      try {
+        const res = await apiFetchRaw(path);
+        if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`HTTP ${res.status}`);
+        const blob = await res.blob();
+        url = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
+      } catch {
+        // Every failure reads the same to the caller — refused, offline, gone,
+        // or a context mismatch the transport discarded. The caller renders its
+        // fallback either way, and the fence's own reconciliation handles the
+        // one case that is recoverable.
+        return disposed || mine !== generation
+          ? { kind: "superseded" }
+          : { kind: "failed" };
+      }
+      if (disposed || mine !== generation) {
+        // Nobody is going to render this. Revoke it here or it lives as long
+        // as the tab does.
+        URL.revokeObjectURL(url);
+        return { kind: "superseded" };
+      }
+      current = url;
+      return { kind: "loaded", url };
+    },
+    dispose() {
+      disposed = true;
+      generation += 1;
+      release();
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+export function useFencedObjectUrl(path: string | null): FencedObjectUrl {
+  // The resolved path is stored ALONGSIDE the result, and the return value is
+  // derived by comparing it against the current one. That is what keeps this
+  // free of a synchronous `setState` inside the effect: while the path has just
+  // changed and the effect has not run yet, the answer is "loading" because the
+  // stored result belongs to a different path — not because something reset it.
+  // Without that, a fast scroll through the vault timeline would paint one
+  // card's thumbnail on the next card for a frame.
+  const [resolved, setResolved] = useState<{
+    path: string | null;
+    url: string | null;
+    failed: boolean;
+  }>({ path: null, url: null, failed: false });
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (path === null) return;
+    const loader = createFencedBlobLoader();
+    void loader.load(path).then((result) => {
+      if (result.kind === "superseded") return;
+      setResolved({
+        path,
+        url: result.kind === "loaded" ? result.url : null,
+        failed: result.kind === "failed",
+      });
+    });
+    return () => loader.dispose();
+  }, [path]);
+
+  if (path === null || resolved.path !== path) {
+    return { url: null, failed: false };
+  }
+  return { url: resolved.url, failed: resolved.failed };
+}