diff --git a/packages/signer/README.md b/packages/signer/README.md
index 47c7f52..7dd30d5 100644
--- a/packages/signer/README.md
+++ b/packages/signer/README.md
@@ -12,13 +12,21 @@ provider.
 - **no Provider and no Lucid instance** — signing uses CML directly
 - **submission lives on the builder**, so the signer needs no egress either
 
-`test/boundary.test.ts` enforces this over both the import graph and the manifest — it walks
-every file under `src/`, checks `package.json` for network-capable dependencies, and greps for
-ambient network globals (`fetch`, `WebSocket`, ...). It is the package's central security
-guarantee.
+`test/boundary.test.ts` checks this mechanically — it walks every file under `src/` for a
+network-capable import or an ambient network global (`fetch`, `WebSocket`, ...), and checks
+`package.json` for a network-capable dependency. That check is a text scan, not a sandbox, and
+it is scoped accordingly: it reliably catches *accidental* regressions and *casual* misuse — an
+added dependency, a forgotten forbidden import, an unthinking `fetch(...)` call, including one
+routed around the bare identifier via `globalThis['fetch']` or `globalThis.fetch`. It does not
+catch *deliberate* obfuscation. Verified directly against the hardened check: an ambient global
+reached through a plain alias (`const f = fetch; f(...)`) or a forbidden module specifier
+assembled at runtime from concatenated strings (`import('node:' + 'dns')`) both still pass.
+Closing gaps like those is a code-review responsibility, not something a fixed set of text
+patterns can guarantee — what this check actually verifies is that today's shipped `src/` has no
+*accidental or careless* network capability, not a proof that none could ever be smuggled in.
 
 `test/integration/roundtrip.test.ts` imports `@lucid-evolution/lucid` and the shared package's
-`/provider` — that does **not** weaken the guarantee above. That file lives under `test/`,
+`/provider` — that does **not** weaken the check above. That file lives under `test/`,
 which `boundary.test.ts` deliberately scans only as far as `src/`, and which the build never
 bundles (`tsup`'s only entry point is `src/index.ts`). Those imports exist so the test can
 build a real transaction the way the hosted *builder* does (no key) before handing it to the
diff --git a/packages/signer/test/boundary.test.ts b/packages/signer/test/boundary.test.ts
index 91f7c03..39d545d 100644
--- a/packages/signer/test/boundary.test.ts
+++ b/packages/signer/test/boundary.test.ts
@@ -3,9 +3,23 @@ import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
 import { readFileSync, readdirSync } from 'node:fs';
 import { join } from 'node:path';
 
-// The signer's security claim is that it CANNOT reach the network — not that it
-// chooses not to. These assertions are that claim, mechanically enforced.
-// Weakening them defeats the purpose of the package.
+// This is a text scan over src/'s import graph, package.json's declared
+// dependencies, and a fixed list of ambient-global patterns — not a sandbox,
+// and not a proof that no sequence of JavaScript could ever reach the
+// network from this package. What it reliably catches: an accidentally
+// added network-capable dependency, a forgotten forbidden import, an
+// unthinking `fetch(...)` call — the shape of mistake code review can miss
+// but a mechanical check cannot. What it does not catch: deliberate
+// obfuscation. A reference to an ambient global reached through an alias
+// (`const f = fetch; f(...)`) or a module specifier assembled at runtime
+// from concatenated strings (`import('node:' + 'dns')`) defeats a text scan
+// by construction — closing every such route is not a fixed-pattern problem,
+// so it is not this file's job. Catching deliberate evasion is a code-review
+// responsibility; this file's job is to make the accidental and the casual
+// loud and immediate. See the README for the specific evasions verified
+// against this file. Within that narrower, accurate scope, weakening these
+// assertions — narrowing FORBIDDEN_IMPORTS, loosening a pattern, deleting a
+// check — still defeats the purpose they do serve.
 
 const PKG_DIR = new URL('..', import.meta.url).pathname.replace(/^\/([A-Za-z]:)/, '$1');
 const SRC_DIR = join(PKG_DIR, 'src');
@@ -16,13 +30,28 @@ const FORBIDDEN_IMPORTS = [
   'cross-fetch',
   'node:http',
   'node:https',
+  // Same network-transport class as http/https above, different protocol
+  // version.
+  'node:http2',
   'node:net',
   'node:dgram',
   'node:tls',
+  // A DNS lookup is network I/O in its own right, not merely a step before
+  // some other request — and a well-known covert exfiltration channel (DNS
+  // tunneling) even with no HTTP client available at all.
+  'node:dns',
+  'node:dns/promises',
   // Reaching the network by shelling out (execSync('curl ...')) bypasses every
   // other assertion here, so the process-spawning modules are forbidden too.
   'node:child_process',
   'child_process',
+  // Same reasoning as child_process just above: both are general
+  // code-execution primitives that can run a separate script (a worker's
+  // entry file, or a string handed to vm.Script/vm.runInNewContext) outside
+  // this file's own source text — precisely what an import-graph scan
+  // cannot see into.
+  'node:worker_threads',
+  'node:vm',
   // Opens a debugger port.
   'node:inspector',
 ];
@@ -40,12 +69,42 @@ const ALLOWED_SHARED_SUBPATHS = [`${SHARED_PKG}/tx`, `${SHARED_PKG}/types`];
 // scan above is structurally blind to their use. These patterns are matched with
 // word boundaries so they don't false-positive on legitimate identifiers like a
 // variable named `prefetchCount`.
+//
+// Every pattern below this comment requires the global's BARE identifier
+// (`fetch`, `WebSocket`, ...) to appear, and most require it to be called or
+// constructed immediately. Both are one-line evasions: `globalThis['fetch']`
+// never spells the bare word `fetch` followed by `(`, and neither does
+// `(0, globalThis.fetch)(...)` — the comma-operator trick (used to strip
+// `this` binding so a borrowed method doesn't throw on an unexpected
+// receiver) puts a `)` between `fetch` and the call parens that actually
+// invoke it. Both still name `globalThis` and the target property, though —
+// just via a different route to the same runtime object — so that route is
+// checked for directly below: dot notation and bracket notation (the latter
+// is literally "computed member access", the formal name for what
+// `obj[expr]` is), covering both quoting styles quotedForms() above exists
+// to handle. This still only recognises the literal text `globalThis` — a
+// further level of indirection (aliasing globalThis to another name first,
+// or building the property name from concatenated substrings the way
+// FORBIDDEN_IMPORTS's own dynamic-`import()` gap allows, see the README) is
+// the kind of arbitrary obfuscation this file does not attempt to defeat.
+function globalThisQualifiedAccess(name: string): RegExp {
+  return new RegExp(`\\bglobalThis\\s*(?:\\.\\s*${name}\\b|\\[\\s*['"\`]${name}['"\`]\\s*\\])`);
+}
+
 const AMBIENT_NETWORK_GLOBALS: { label: string; pattern: RegExp }[] = [
   { label: 'fetch(...)', pattern: /\bfetch\s*\(/ },
   { label: 'new WebSocket', pattern: /\bnew\s+WebSocket\b/ },
   { label: 'new EventSource', pattern: /\bnew\s+EventSource\b/ },
   { label: 'new XMLHttpRequest', pattern: /\bnew\s+XMLHttpRequest\b/ },
   { label: 'navigator.sendBeacon', pattern: /\bnavigator\s*\.\s*sendBeacon\b/ },
+  { label: `navigator['sendBeacon']`, pattern: /\bnavigator\s*\[\s*['"`]sendBeacon['"`]\s*\]/ },
+  { label: `globalThis.fetch / globalThis['fetch']`, pattern: globalThisQualifiedAccess('fetch') },
+  { label: `globalThis.WebSocket / globalThis['WebSocket']`, pattern: globalThisQualifiedAccess('WebSocket') },
+  { label: `globalThis.EventSource / globalThis['EventSource']`, pattern: globalThisQualifiedAccess('EventSource') },
+  {
+    label: `globalThis.XMLHttpRequest / globalThis['XMLHttpRequest']`,
+    pattern: globalThisQualifiedAccess('XMLHttpRequest'),
+  },
 ];
 
 // Any module format that Node can execute, not just .ts — a stray .js or .mjs