diff --git a/changelog.d/7804-addr-class-scans-ext-crates.md b/changelog.d/7804-addr-class-scans-ext-crates.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+**The addr-class audit now scans `crates/perry-ext-*`** (#7272), bringing 18 previously-invisible sites into the gate.
+
+`scripts/addr_class_inventory.py` stopped at `perry-runtime/src` and `perry-stdlib/src`, while its sibling `gc_store_site_inventory.py` has globbed `crates/perry-ext-*/src` all along — so the two audits disagreed about what counts as first-party runtime code.
+
+That was not academic. #6826 moved the HTTP server out of `crates/perry-stdlib/src/http.rs` into `crates/perry-ext-http/`, and this gate then reported its 11 handle-floor sites as `baseline says 11, found 0 — lower it to 0`. The sites had not been fixed; they had walked out of the gate's field of view, and the ratchet's own bookkeeping invited someone to ratify that as progress. **A gate whose coverage shrinks silently when code moves** is the failure mode CLAUDE.md's "four ways a gate can be unable to fail" is about, with the twist that here the shrinkage announces itself as a win.
+
+Scanned files go from 826 to **1027**. The 18 newly-visible sites are recorded, not rewritten:
+
+* **10 handle-floor**, baselined per file — `perry-ext-events` (3), `perry-ext-http/agent.rs` (3), `perry-ext-http/lib.rs` (2), `perry-ext-exponential-backoff` (1), `perry-ext-fastify` (1). Five of those are the HTTP server's, i.e. the ones the stale entry was about.
+* **8 band-literal**, allowlisted with justifications — each is a wrapper asking "is this f64 payload a small registry handle rather than a heap pointer?" before dereferencing, which is exactly what `addr_class::is_handle_band` answers. They are re-typed rather than called because the ext crates reach perry-runtime through its public surface and `is_handle_band` is not on it. Exporting it is the real fix and belongs with #7448's `ptr_is_tracked_heap_object` export rather than buried in a scan-scope change.
+
+**Verified the widened gate can fail**, rather than assuming it: planting `if (obj as usize) < 0x100000 {` in `perry-ext-exponential-backoff` makes the audit exit 1 and name the file and line; removing it returns exit 0. Worth recording that a first attempt at that sabotage used `p < 0x10000` and did *not* trip the rule — the detector keys on specific shapes, so "I added a magic number and nothing happened" is not evidence the scan is dark.
+
+The sibling `gc_store_site_inventory.py` and `check_file_size.sh` both stay green.
diff --git a/scripts/addr_class_allowlist.txt b/scripts/addr_class_allowlist.txt
index 6399fe472a..91e95a9061 100644
--- a/scripts/addr_class_allowlist.txt
+++ b/scripts/addr_class_allowlist.txt
@@ -152,3 +152,16 @@ crates/perry-runtime/src/closure/dispatch/ | * | pre-existing GcHeader probe pre
 crates/perry-runtime/src/bun_compat/string_width.rs | 0xE0000..=0xE007F | Unicode "Tags" codepoint block (U+E0000..U+E007F) tested against a char, not a handle-band address
 crates/perry-runtime/src/bun_compat/width_tables.rs | * | pure Unicode East-Asian-width codepoint-range table; every hex literal is a Unicode code point (e.g. U+F0000 / U+100000 SPUA-A/B planes), never a handle-band address
 crates/perry-runtime/src/array/collection_tag_tests.rs | * | unit tests for the #7765 receiver-tag gate: they read AND re-stamp `GcHeader.obj_type` on an address they allocated themselves, which is the whole subject under test. `try_read_gc_header` cannot serve them (it hands out a shared reference, and the recycling test must WRITE the tag to model `arena_alloc_gc` handing the bytes to the next owner).
+
+# #7272: band literals in `crates/perry-ext-*`, which entered this gate's scope
+# with the widened scan roots. Each is a wrapper deciding "is this f64 payload a
+# small registry handle rather than a heap pointer?" before dereferencing --
+# the same question `addr_class::is_handle_band` answers, re-typed. They are
+# recorded rather than rewritten because the ext crates reach perry-runtime
+# through its public surface and `is_handle_band` is not on it; exporting it is
+# the actual fix and belongs with #7448's `ptr_is_tracked_heap_object` export,
+# not buried in a scan-scope change.
+crates/perry-ext-events/src/lib.rs | const EVENT_EMITTER_HANDLE_ID_END | #7272: the crate's own handle-id range end, a registry bound rather than a heap-address band test
+crates/perry-ext-net/src/jsvalue.rs | * | #7272: socket/server handle-vs-pointer discrimination before dereference; re-types the handle band instead of calling addr_class::is_handle_band, which perry-runtime does not export
+crates/perry-ext-ratelimit/src/lib.rs | (obj as usize) >= 0x100000 | #7272: same handle-vs-pointer guard before an ObjectHeader read
+crates/perry-ext-slugify/src/lib.rs | (obj as usize) < 0x100000 | #7272: same handle-vs-pointer guard before an ObjectHeader read
diff --git a/scripts/addr_class_inventory.py b/scripts/addr_class_inventory.py
index 101cef9323..d16f55e2b6 100644
--- a/scripts/addr_class_inventory.py
+++ b/scripts/addr_class_inventory.py
@@ -44,6 +44,19 @@
     "crates/perry-stdlib/src",
 )
 
+# #7272: `crates/perry-ext-*/src` is first-party runtime code and is scanned
+# too, matching the sibling gate `gc_store_site_inventory.py`, whose
+# `iter_scan_roots()` has globbed these all along.
+#
+# The two audits disagreeing was not academic. #6826 moved the HTTP server out
+# of `perry-stdlib/src/http.rs` into `crates/perry-ext-http/`, and this gate
+# reported the file's 11 handle-floor sites as "found 0 — lower it to 0". They
+# had not been fixed; they had walked out of the gate's field of view, and the
+# ratchet's own bookkeeping invited someone to ratify that as progress. A gate
+# whose coverage shrinks silently when code moves is the shape CLAUDE.md's
+# "four ways a gate can be unable to fail" is about.
+EXT_CRATE_GLOB = "perry-ext-*"
+
 # The module that owns the band constants/predicates, and the collector
 # internals that legitimately manipulate GcHeader layout directly.
 EXCLUDED_PREFIXES = (
@@ -215,8 +228,16 @@ def scan_text(rel_path: str, text: str) -> list[Finding]:
 def collect_inventory() -> tuple[list[Finding], int]:
     findings: list[Finding] = []
     files_scanned = 0
-    for root in SCAN_ROOTS:
-        for path in sorted((REPO_ROOT / root).rglob("*.rs")):
+    scan_dirs = [REPO_ROOT / root for root in SCAN_ROOTS]
+    scan_dirs.extend(
+        src
+        for src in (
+            ext / "src" for ext in sorted((REPO_ROOT / "crates").glob(EXT_CRATE_GLOB))
+        )
+        if src.is_dir()
+    )
+    for root in scan_dirs:
+        for path in sorted(root.rglob("*.rs")):
             rel_path = path.relative_to(REPO_ROOT).as_posix()
             # Skip parked/hidden trees (e.g. `.value.parked/`) — not compiled.
             if any(part.startswith(".") for part in rel_path.split("/")):
diff --git a/scripts/addr_class_ratchet_baseline.txt b/scripts/addr_class_ratchet_baseline.txt
index 16ace45fdd..3511cb4ac7 100644
--- a/scripts/addr_class_ratchet_baseline.txt
+++ b/scripts/addr_class_ratchet_baseline.txt
@@ -272,3 +272,19 @@ lone-valid-obj-ptr | crates/perry-runtime/src/util_mime.rs | 1
 lone-valid-obj-ptr | crates/perry-runtime/src/util_style_text.rs | 1
 lone-valid-obj-ptr | crates/perry-runtime/src/value/dyn_index.rs | 2
 lone-valid-obj-ptr | crates/perry-runtime/src/value/to_string.rs | 1
+
+# #7272: `crates/perry-ext-*` entered this gate's scope. These ten sites are
+# not new code — they were invisible because the scan roots stopped at
+# perry-runtime/perry-stdlib while the sibling gate
+# (gc_store_site_inventory.py) had globbed the ext crates all along.
+#
+# Five of them are the HTTP server's, which #6826 moved out of
+# crates/perry-stdlib/src/http.rs. This file used to carry an entry for that
+# path, and once the file vanished the gate reported "baseline says 11, found
+# 0 -- lower it to 0": an invitation to ratify a coverage loss as a fix. They
+# are baselined here at their real counts instead.
+handle-floor | crates/perry-ext-events/src/lib.rs | 3
+handle-floor | crates/perry-ext-exponential-backoff/src/lib.rs | 1
+handle-floor | crates/perry-ext-fastify/src/server.rs | 1
+handle-floor | crates/perry-ext-http/src/agent.rs | 3
+handle-floor | crates/perry-ext-http/src/lib.rs | 2