diff --git a/packages/core/src/security/assemble-execution-context.test.ts b/packages/core/src/security/assemble-execution-context.test.ts
index f6dae615a99..b4d9d42fbcb 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/security/assemble-execution-context.test.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/security/assemble-execution-context.test.ts
@@ -591,3 +591,41 @@ describe('ruling 6355206139 — the resolver’s audience stamp rides the envelo
     expect(Object.keys(assemble({ ...ANONYMOUS, audience: 'external' }))).not.toContain('audience');
   });
 });
+
+// The guest envelope is the ONLY thing that tells a downstream create hook an
+// anonymous request is a caller at all. Create hooks such as `sys_attachment`'s
+// and `sys_comment`'s keep a bare-kernel carve-out — no hook session means an
+// internal, context-less engine call, skipped before any user check — and the
+// engine builds that session from the envelope's caller fields
+// (`buildSession`, objectql `engine-execution-plumbing.ts`), which does not
+// read `principalKind`. So the anonymous principal must stay identified by a
+// field that survives that hop, whatever else the face resolved or withheld.
+// objectql's own suite pins the hop itself; this pin holds the envelope end.
+describe('a guest request is a named caller, never an empty context', () => {
+  const GUEST_SHAPES: Array<[string, ResolvedAuthzContext]> = [
+    // The minimum: no session, no key, no guest anchor grants — nothing but
+    // the fact that someone asked.
+    ['no tenant, no grants, no token', ANONYMOUS],
+    // A face that serves the guest resolves the anchor's grants in the
+    // organization ADR-0138 D4 derives; the identification must not depend on it.
+    ['guest anchor grants in an organization', baseAuthz({ tenantId: 'org1', permissions: ['task.read'] })],
+  ];
+
+  for (const [name, authz] of GUEST_SHAPES) {
+    it(`an anonymous request keeps the guest position on its envelope (${name}), so create hooks see a caller`, () => {
+      const ctx = assembleExecutionContextOrGuest({
+        authz,
+        oauth: undefined,
+        // Everything a face could pass for an anonymous request, so a later
+        // change that strips more of it cannot strip the identification too.
+        localization: { timezone: 'Asia/Shanghai', locale: 'zh-CN', currency: 'CNY' },
+        requestLocale: 'en-US',
+        accessToken: undefined,
+        authGate: undefined,
+      });
+      expect(ctx.userId).toBeUndefined();
+      expect(ctx.isSystem).toBe(false);
+      expect(ctx.positions).toEqual(['guest']);
+    });
+  }
+});
diff --git a/packages/objectql/src/engine-execution-plumbing.session-locale.test.ts b/packages/objectql/src/engine-execution-plumbing.session-locale.test.ts
index c12fe4a2c9d..f0b2dfc1d9a 100644
--- a/packages/objectql/src/engine-execution-plumbing.session-locale.test.ts
+++ b/packages/objectql/src/engine-execution-plumbing.session-locale.test.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
  */
 
 import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';
+import { assembleExecutionContextOrGuest } from '@objectstack/core';
 import { buildSession } from './engine-execution-plumbing.js';
 
 describe('[#26170] buildSession carries the caller\'s locale', () => {
@@ -25,3 +26,46 @@ describe('[#26170] buildSession carries the caller\'s locale', () => {
     }
   });
 });
+
+// Create hooks with a bare-kernel carve-out (`sys_attachment`'s and
+// `sys_comment`'s) read "no hook session" as an internal, context-less engine
+// call and skip their user checks for it. That reading is sound only while
+// every request door hands the engine a context this function turns into a
+// session — the guest door included, whose envelope names no user. Built
+// through the REAL guest entry (`@objectstack/core`), not a literal, so a
+// change to what that entry emits is measured here rather than assumed.
+describe('a guest request reaches create hooks with a session, so an anonymous create is never treated as a bare-kernel call', () => {
+  // The anonymous resolver's own answer for a request with no credential:
+  // the initial context `resolveAuthzContext` returns before any principal
+  // is found (`packages/core/src/security/resolve-authz-context.ts`).
+  const anonymousAuthz = () => ({
+    positions: [] as string[],
+    permissions: [] as string[],
+    directPermissions: [] as string[],
+    systemPermissions: [] as string[],
+    org_user_ids: [] as string[],
+    accessible_org_ids: [] as string[],
+  });
+
+  it('the guest envelope with no tenant, no grants and no token still yields a session that names no user', () => {
+    const guest = assembleExecutionContextOrGuest({
+      authz: anonymousAuthz(),
+      oauth: undefined,
+      localization: undefined,
+      requestLocale: undefined,
+      accessToken: undefined,
+      authGate: undefined,
+    });
+    const session = buildSession(guest);
+    expect(session).toBeDefined();
+    expect(session?.userId).toBeUndefined();
+    // Not the system arm either: the hooks test `isSystem` before the user.
+    expect(session).not.toHaveProperty('isSystem');
+  });
+
+  it('CONTROL: an envelope that names nothing the session copies yields no session — the bare-kernel reading', () => {
+    // The carve-out's own premise, so the pin above cannot pass on a
+    // `buildSession` that answers a session for every input.
+    expect(buildSession({ principalKind: 'guest' } as any)).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/services/service-storage/src/attachment-access-hooks.test.ts b/packages/services/service-storage/src/attachment-access-hooks.test.ts
index bb634d334e3..ad45b1b0b84 100644
--- a/packages/services/service-storage/src/attachment-access-hooks.test.ts
+++ b/packages/services/service-storage/src/attachment-access-hooks.test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 // Copyright (c) 2025 ObjectStack. Licensed under the Apache-2.0 license.
 
 import { describe, it, expect, vi } from 'vitest';
+import { assembleExecutionContextOrGuest } from '@objectstack/core';
 import { ObjectQL, assertEngineFindOnePredicate } from '@objectstack/objectql';
 import { renderOperationMessage } from '@objectstack/spec/system';
 import type { ControlledByParentWriteOutcome, ExplainAccessRequest } from '@objectstack/spec/contracts';
@@ -2015,3 +2016,48 @@ describe('attachment access — the file a row names must be one the caller may
     expect(authorizeFileRead).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
   });
 });
+
+// ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// The guest door through the WIRED engine. The create gate skips a call that
+// reaches it with no hook session (an internal, context-less engine call);
+// a request that came through the guest door must never read as one. The
+// envelope is the REAL guest entry's (`@objectstack/core`), handed to the
+// REAL engine, so both the envelope and the engine's session hop are the
+// production ones — the same rig as the unscoped-write blocks above, with
+// the same rebuild-before-trusting note.
+// ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+describe('a guest request through the wired engine is refused at create, never treated as a bare-kernel call', () => {
+  const guestContext = () =>
+    assembleExecutionContextOrGuest({
+      // The anonymous resolver's answer for a request with no credential.
+      authz: {
+        positions: [],
+        permissions: [],
+        directPermissions: [],
+        systemPermissions: [],
+        org_user_ids: [],
+        accessible_org_ids: [],
+      },
+      oauth: undefined,
+      localization: undefined,
+      requestLocale: undefined,
+      accessToken: undefined,
+      authGate: undefined,
+    });
+  const attachData = () => ({ id: 'a_new', file_id: 'f_new', parent_object: 'att_secret', parent_id: 'r1' });
+
+  it('an anonymous create of an attachment is refused (403 RECORD_NOT_ACCESSIBLE) and writes no row', async () => {
+    const { ql, remaining } = await bootWired({ sharing: { canEdit: async () => true }, parents: ['r1'] });
+    await expect(
+      ql.insert('sys_attachment', attachData(), { context: guestContext() } as any),
+    ).rejects.toMatchObject({ code: 'RECORD_NOT_ACCESSIBLE', status: 403 });
+    expect(remaining()).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it('CONTROL: the same create by a signed-in caller resolves and stamps that caller as the uploader', async () => {
+    const { ql, driver } = await bootWired({ sharing: { canEdit: async () => true }, parents: ['r1'] });
+    await ql.insert('sys_attachment', attachData(), { context: { userId: 'u1' } } as any);
+    expect(driver.stores.get('sys_attachment')!.get('a_new')).toMatchObject({ uploaded_by: 'u1' });
+  });
+});