diff --git a/components/claude-lanes-hosted/claude-review.yml b/components/claude-lanes-hosted/claude-review.yml
index 22109777..ff7df756 100644
--- a/components/claude-lanes-hosted/claude-review.yml
+++ b/components/claude-lanes-hosted/claude-review.yml
@@ -15,9 +15,10 @@ name: pr-review-hosted
 # elevate it).
 #
 # The reusable skips fork PRs (they receive no secrets and a read-only token)
-# and every `[bot]` actor, so neither is reviewed by design. On a public
-# repository that means the lane reviews only pull requests from branches of
-# this repository: fork and Dependabot pull requests get no secrets.
+# and every `[bot]` actor whose sender id is not in `allowed-bot-sender-ids`
+# (below), so neither is reviewed by design. On a public repository that means
+# the lane reviews only pull requests from branches of this repository: fork
+# and Dependabot pull requests get no secrets.
 #
 # RUNNER PLACEMENT: hosted shape. This file runs the lane on the GitHub-hosted
 # `ubuntu-24.04` runner, which the standards `runner-policy` component admits
@@ -80,9 +81,14 @@ jobs:
                              # reviewed-head marker comment
       id-token: write        # OIDC, mints the Claude GitHub App token (required
                              # even with an OAuth/API-key credential)
-    uses: melodic-software/ci-workflows/.github/workflows/pr-review.yml@ab83b01273026ab5c23c6f3b40e946d97a863fa2 # v0.39.3
+    uses: melodic-software/ci-workflows/.github/workflows/pr-review.yml@a92020292976c2e9b50f7adc922693a45a6c1226 # v0.40.0
     with:
       runner: ubuntu-24.04
+      # Bot senders this lane reviews, by numeric user id: the
+      # automation-lanes App, so a commit it pushes to a pull request is
+      # reviewed. Where the repository does not set this variable the value is
+      # empty and the reusable reviews no bot.
+      allowed-bot-sender-ids: ${{ vars.AUTOMATION_LANES_APP_SENDER_ID }}
     # Pass only the one named secret (least privilege) rather than
     # `secrets: inherit`, which would forward every parent secret to the
     # called workflow.
diff --git a/components/claude-lanes-hosted/claude-security-review.yml b/components/claude-lanes-hosted/claude-security-review.yml
index d49727ee..40224d2b 100644
--- a/components/claude-lanes-hosted/claude-security-review.yml
+++ b/components/claude-lanes-hosted/claude-security-review.yml
@@ -25,10 +25,11 @@ name: pr-review-security-hosted
 # `pr-review-security / security-review`, never arms.
 #
 # The reusable skips fork PRs (they receive no secrets and a read-only token)
-# and every `[bot]` actor; a required check does NOT prove a fork PR was
-# reviewed (see the reusable's header). On a public repository the lane
-# reviews only pull requests from branches of this repository: fork and
-# Dependabot pull requests get no secrets.
+# and every `[bot]` actor whose sender id is not in `allowed-bot-sender-ids`
+# (below); a required check does NOT prove a fork PR was reviewed (see the
+# reusable's header). On a public repository the lane reviews only pull
+# requests from branches of this repository: fork and Dependabot pull requests
+# get no secrets.
 #
 # RUNNER PLACEMENT: hosted shape, the sibling of
 # components/claude-lanes/claude-security-review.yml, differing from it only
@@ -81,9 +82,14 @@ jobs:
     concurrency:
       group: pr-review-security-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.run_id }}
       cancel-in-progress: false
-    uses: melodic-software/ci-workflows/.github/workflows/pr-review-security.yml@ab83b01273026ab5c23c6f3b40e946d97a863fa2 # v0.39.3
+    uses: melodic-software/ci-workflows/.github/workflows/pr-review-security.yml@a92020292976c2e9b50f7adc922693a45a6c1226 # v0.40.0
     with:
       runner: ubuntu-24.04
+      # Bot senders this lane reviews, by numeric user id: the
+      # automation-lanes App, so a commit it pushes to a pull request is
+      # reviewed. Where the repository does not set this variable the value is
+      # empty and the reusable reviews no bot.
+      allowed-bot-sender-ids: ${{ vars.AUTOMATION_LANES_APP_SENDER_ID }}
     # Pass only the one named secret (least privilege) rather than
     # `secrets: inherit`, which would forward every parent secret to the
     # called workflow.
diff --git a/components/claude-lanes/claude-review.yml b/components/claude-lanes/claude-review.yml
index 98c977ca..902a978b 100644
--- a/components/claude-lanes/claude-review.yml
+++ b/components/claude-lanes/claude-review.yml
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ name: pr-review
 # elevate it).
 #
 # The reusable skips fork PRs (they receive no secrets and a read-only token)
-# and every `[bot]` actor, so neither is reviewed by design.
+# and every `[bot]` actor whose sender id is not in `allowed-bot-sender-ids`
+# (below), so neither is reviewed by design.
 #
 # RUNNER PLACEMENT: this component names the governed managed fleet review
 # label directly. Every target that manages it is a private repository
@@ -75,9 +76,14 @@ jobs:
                              # reviewed-head marker comment
       id-token: write        # OIDC, mints the Claude GitHub App token (required
                              # even with an OAuth/API-key credential)
-    uses: melodic-software/ci-workflows/.github/workflows/pr-review.yml@ab83b01273026ab5c23c6f3b40e946d97a863fa2 # v0.39.3
+    uses: melodic-software/ci-workflows/.github/workflows/pr-review.yml@a92020292976c2e9b50f7adc922693a45a6c1226 # v0.40.0
     with:
       runner: melodic-review-ubuntu-24.04-x64
+      # Bot senders this lane reviews, by numeric user id: the
+      # automation-lanes App, so a commit it pushes to a pull request is
+      # reviewed. Where the repository does not set this variable the value is
+      # empty and the reusable reviews no bot.
+      allowed-bot-sender-ids: ${{ vars.AUTOMATION_LANES_APP_SENDER_ID }}
     # Pass only the one named secret (least privilege) rather than
     # `secrets: inherit`, which would forward every parent secret to the
     # called workflow.
diff --git a/components/claude-lanes/claude-security-review.yml b/components/claude-lanes/claude-security-review.yml
index b83e1600..6dfd6888 100644
--- a/components/claude-lanes/claude-security-review.yml
+++ b/components/claude-lanes/claude-security-review.yml
@@ -24,8 +24,9 @@ name: pr-review-security
 # `pr-review-security / security-review`, never arms.
 #
 # The reusable skips fork PRs (they receive no secrets and a read-only token)
-# and every `[bot]` actor; a required check does NOT prove a fork PR was
-# reviewed (see the reusable's header).
+# and every `[bot]` actor whose sender id is not in `allowed-bot-sender-ids`
+# (below); a required check does NOT prove a fork PR was reviewed (see the
+# reusable's header).
 #
 # RUNNER PLACEMENT: this component names the governed managed fleet review
 # label directly, for the same reason and under the same inventory constraint
@@ -77,9 +78,14 @@ jobs:
     concurrency:
       group: pr-review-security-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.run_id }}
       cancel-in-progress: false
-    uses: melodic-software/ci-workflows/.github/workflows/pr-review-security.yml@ab83b01273026ab5c23c6f3b40e946d97a863fa2 # v0.39.3
+    uses: melodic-software/ci-workflows/.github/workflows/pr-review-security.yml@a92020292976c2e9b50f7adc922693a45a6c1226 # v0.40.0
     with:
       runner: melodic-review-ubuntu-24.04-x64
+      # Bot senders this lane reviews, by numeric user id: the
+      # automation-lanes App, so a commit it pushes to a pull request is
+      # reviewed. Where the repository does not set this variable the value is
+      # empty and the reusable reviews no bot.
+      allowed-bot-sender-ids: ${{ vars.AUTOMATION_LANES_APP_SENDER_ID }}
     # Pass only the one named secret (least privilege) rather than
     # `secrets: inherit`, which would forward every parent secret to the
     # called workflow.
diff --git a/components/runner-policy/README.md b/components/runner-policy/README.md
index b12e5fbe..06ae002b 100644
--- a/components/runner-policy/README.md
+++ b/components/runner-policy/README.md
@@ -1171,6 +1171,16 @@ message. `maintenance-sync-standards` bumps `actions/setup-node` from v7.0.0
 to v7.1.0 (`949feb2`) and is declined on shape, because its `sync` job routes
 through `needs`. `pr-run-checks` keeps its blob, but its `$/markdownlint`
 action tree takes the same `setup-node` bump.
+`pr-review` and `pr-review-security` are also registered at the v0.40.0 tag
+`a92020292976c2e9b50f7adc922693a45a6c1226`, each equal to its v0.39.8 entry
+plus the input `allowed-bot-sender-ids`, signed off by hand on 2026-10-11.
+That input admits a bot sender whose numeric user id the caller lists and hands
+only that sender's login to the action's `allowed_bots`; an empty or malformed
+list admits no bot. Neither lane changes a secret, a workflow or job
+permission, or `runs-on` routing, and no composite action either lane reaches
+changes. The lockstep declines both on `inputs`. The claude lane callers pass
+`${{ vars.AUTOMATION_LANES_APP_SENDER_ID }}`, which is empty, so no bot is
+reviewed, in a repository that does not set the variable.
 The Zizmor contract at `de50a08b6093d231519ee7a4c9371db76c0a7e1e`
 uses its reviewed `runner` input and checksum-verified native Linux binary, so
 enrolled consumers may route that advisory lane onto the managed fleet
diff --git a/components/runner-policy/policy.json b/components/runner-policy/policy.json
index 32183ea5..751c5ca3 100644
--- a/components/runner-policy/policy.json
+++ b/components/runner-policy/policy.json
@@ -63,6 +63,19 @@
         "id-token": "write"
       }
     },
+    "melodic-software/ci-workflows/.github/workflows/pr-review.yml@a92020292976c2e9b50f7adc922693a45a6c1226": {
+      "routing": "runner-input",
+      "runnerInput": "runner",
+      "allowedInputs": ["runner", "incremental-review", "allowed-bot-sender-ids"],
+      "allowedSecrets": {
+        "CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN": "${{ secrets.CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN }}"
+      },
+      "allowedCallerPermissions": {
+        "contents": "read",
+        "pull-requests": "write",
+        "id-token": "write"
+      }
+    },
     "melodic-software/ci-workflows/.github/workflows/pr-review-security.yml@ab83b01273026ab5c23c6f3b40e946d97a863fa2": {
       "routing": "runner-input",
       "runnerInput": "runner",
@@ -89,6 +102,19 @@
         "id-token": "write"
       }
     },
+    "melodic-software/ci-workflows/.github/workflows/pr-review-security.yml@a92020292976c2e9b50f7adc922693a45a6c1226": {
+      "routing": "runner-input",
+      "runnerInput": "runner",
+      "allowedInputs": ["runner", "incremental-review", "allowed-bot-sender-ids"],
+      "allowedSecrets": {
+        "CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN": "${{ secrets.CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN }}"
+      },
+      "allowedCallerPermissions": {
+        "contents": "read",
+        "pull-requests": "write",
+        "id-token": "write"
+      }
+    },
     "melodic-software/ci-workflows/.github/workflows/intake-label-needs-triage.yml@ab83b01273026ab5c23c6f3b40e946d97a863fa2": {
       "routing": "runner-input",
       "runnerInput": "runner",
diff --git a/components/runner-policy/runner-policy.test.mjs b/components/runner-policy/runner-policy.test.mjs
index 05e389ee..332ff2e9 100644
--- a/components/runner-policy/runner-policy.test.mjs
+++ b/components/runner-policy/runner-policy.test.mjs
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ const REPINE_LANE_SHA_V0_29_0 = "6567856ef6070a4a1c9c2691f610278a7f2de153";
 const REPINE_LANE_SHA_V0_29_1 = "0d3e6a6f3851cf678f82fa9a8a17f10faa909ac9";
 const REPINE_LANE_SHA_V0_30_1 = "35880dcbb2f174aac90159e276dc7eddf1bc20b9";
 const REPINE_LANE_SHA_V0_39_8 = "594987abe8657a40bccc13d301f1f0d5cccb5348";
+const REPINE_LANE_SHA_V0_40_0 = "a92020292976c2e9b50f7adc922693a45a6c1226";
 const STANDARDS_SYNC_SHA = "35f2684ac953794b854bac1959df00e74eeca1d9";
 const REUSABLE_PATH = "melodic-software/ci-workflows/.github/workflows/osv-scanner.yml";
 const REUSABLE_REFERENCE = `${REUSABLE_PATH}@${SHA}`;
@@ -9027,6 +9028,28 @@ test("every reusable contract at the v0.39.8 tag copies its v0.39.3 entry forwar
   );
 });
 
+// v0.40.0 adds one input to the two review lanes, `allowed-bot-sender-ids`,
+// and changes no secret, permission or routing field; no other reusable is
+// registered at it.
+test("the review contracts at the v0.40.0 tag are their v0.39.8 entries plus allowed-bot-sender-ids", () => {
+  const contracts = BASE_POLICY.approvedReusableWorkflowContracts;
+  const reusables = ["pr-review", "pr-review-security"];
+  for (const reusable of reusables) {
+    const workflowPath = `melodic-software/ci-workflows/.github/workflows/${reusable}.yml`;
+    const previous = contracts[`${workflowPath}@${REPINE_LANE_SHA_V0_39_8}`];
+    assert.ok(previous, `expected a v0.39.8 contract for ${reusable}`);
+    assert.deepEqual(
+      contracts[`${workflowPath}@${REPINE_LANE_SHA_V0_40_0}`],
+      { ...previous, allowedInputs: [...previous.allowedInputs, "allowed-bot-sender-ids"] },
+      `${reusable} at the v0.40.0 tag is not its v0.39.8 entry plus allowed-bot-sender-ids`,
+    );
+  }
+  assert.equal(
+    Object.keys(contracts).filter((key) => key.endsWith(`@${REPINE_LANE_SHA_V0_40_0}`)).length,
+    reusables.length,
+  );
+});
+
 // Convergence as a property, never as a hardcoded SHA. The daily
 // claude-lanes-repin lane rewrites these components on every ci-workflows
 // release, and a test naming one revision would go red by construction on
diff --git a/conventions/review/ai-review-bot-composition.md b/conventions/review/ai-review-bot-composition.md
index 627c8da6..722dd9b7 100644
--- a/conventions/review/ai-review-bot-composition.md
+++ b/conventions/review/ai-review-bot-composition.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Which automated AI reviewers a repository runs follows its governance class in `
 
 - **Archived (`Archived: true`)**: a repository frozen read-only (e.g. a superseded snapshot). No PR-time reviewer: a finding against closed history has no one positioned to act on it.
 - **No CI surface (`RequiresCi: false`, not archived)**: a content, artifact, or single-purpose test repository with no `ci-status`-emitting workflow (for example: an artifact store, or a private acceptance-only canary target). No PR-time reviewer today, because there is no PR-time workflow surface for one to hang off. This is a **deferred**, not a permanent, absence: if such a repo grows a workflow surface, it moves into the governed class below and should adopt that class's default composition. Trigger: the first `.github/workflows/*.yml` lands in the repo.
-- **Governed (`RequiresCi: true`, not archived)**: the default and largest class, spanning both public and private repos, and both org-originated and personal-account-transferred repos alike. Two PR-time AI lanes, split by scope rather than doubled up. The **code-review lane**: the org's `pr-review.yml` reusable-workflow caller, reviewing every non-draft PR, with two intentional exclusions built into the reusable lane: fork PRs (no secrets and no automated review, by design) and PRs whose triggering actor is any `[bot]` account, including `melodic-standards-sync[bot]` (sync PRs distribute content already reviewed at its source in `standards`, so a second AI pass adds token cost without marginal catch, while the deterministic gates still run on them). The **security lane**: the org's `pr-review-security.yml` caller, reviewing every non-draft PR head with the same fork and bot exclusions; it has no path gating. The two lanes' scopes are mutually exclusive, a split the root `REVIEW.md` records, so each finding has exactly one owning reviewer; the security lane is scope partitioning, not the same-scope second reviewer whose evidence-gated exception defines the high-traffic class below.
+- **Governed (`RequiresCi: true`, not archived)**: the default and largest class, spanning both public and private repos, and both org-originated and personal-account-transferred repos alike. Two PR-time AI lanes, split by scope rather than doubled up. The **code-review lane**: the org's `pr-review.yml` reusable-workflow caller, reviewing every non-draft PR, with two intentional exclusions built into the reusable lane: fork PRs (no secrets and no automated review, by design) and PRs whose triggering actor is any `[bot]` account, including `melodic-standards-sync[bot]` (sync PRs distribute content already reviewed at its source in `standards`, so a second AI pass adds token cost without marginal catch, while the deterministic gates still run on them). The one exception is a bot whose sender id the caller lists in the reusable's `allowed-bot-sender-ids` input (ci-workflows v0.40.0): the synced callers pass the repository variable `AUTOMATION_LANES_APP_SENDER_ID`, so where a repository sets it, commits the automation-lanes App pushes are reviewed; where it is unset, no bot is. The **security lane**: the org's `pr-review-security.yml` caller, reviewing every non-draft PR head with the same fork and bot exclusions and the same bot exception; it has no path gating. The two lanes' scopes are mutually exclusive, a split the root `REVIEW.md` records, so each finding has exactly one owning reviewer; the security lane is scope partitioning, not the same-scope second reviewer whose evidence-gated exception defines the high-traffic class below.
 - **High-traffic primary development repo**: a repository whose PR volume and change surface justify a second PR-time reviewer, gated alongside the first via a dedicated matrix workflow. A repo in this class may additionally run author-side review agents that inform the author but never post to the PR. That wiring is repo-specific and drifts independently of this class definition, so verify it against the repo's own `.claude/` and `.github/workflows/` rather than assuming it here. Entering this class is an evidence-gated exception, not a default: it follows from a documented per-repo investigation weighing a second bot's marginal catch rate against its added comment volume and PR-cycle-time cost, including whether the two reviewers' findings are deduplicated (a coordinator is a further, separately evidence-gated step, not implied by running two reviewers). A repo does not enter this class by assumption; it earns it by running (and keeping current) the same kind of investigation.
 
 ## Why the class, not visibility or origin
diff --git a/distribution/README.md b/distribution/README.md
index 679296aa..3ba33a6b 100644
--- a/distribution/README.md
+++ b/distribution/README.md
@@ -324,7 +324,8 @@ What stays consumer-owned:
   but was never one of them; it is the observer key named above and it stays.
 
 The security lane has no path gating from ci-workflows v0.29.0: it reviews every
-non-draft same-repository PR whose actor is not a bot, and a target's `.github/claude-security-paths` file is
+non-draft same-repository PR whose actor is not a bot (or is a bot whose sender id the
+caller lists in `allowed-bot-sender-ids`, from ci-workflows v0.40.0), and a target's `.github/claude-security-paths` file is
 no longer read. The manifest never managed that file.
 
 The two callers deliberately carry different concurrency values (per-PR
diff --git a/distribution/sync-manifest.yml b/distribution/sync-manifest.yml
index c69de56f..8bea2ccd 100644
--- a/distribution/sync-manifest.yml
+++ b/distribution/sync-manifest.yml
@@ -99,7 +99,9 @@ components:
   # its destinations retire.
   #
   # The security lane has no path gating from ci-workflows v0.29.0: it reviews
-  # every non-draft same-repository PR whose actor is not a bot, and a target's `.github/claude-security-paths`
+  # every non-draft same-repository PR whose actor is not a bot (or is a bot
+  # whose sender id the caller lists in `allowed-bot-sender-ids`, from
+  # ci-workflows v0.40.0), and a target's `.github/claude-security-paths`
   # file is no longer read. The manifest never synced that file, so a target
   # removes its copy in a repo-local PR if it wants to.
   #