diff --git a/.github/workflows/validate-templates.yml b/.github/workflows/validate-templates.yml
index b54065b..39e9ab3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/validate-templates.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/validate-templates.yml
@@ -17,14 +17,15 @@ jobs:
   # Apply the same tooling to the template repo itself — a template that
   # does not pass its own gates is not credible.
   #
-  # The job NAME still says "tfsec" and no longer should: it is one of the
-  # six required status checks in the ADR-026 ruleset, so renaming it in the
-  # same change that swapped the tool would block that very change (the
-  # required context would never report). Tracked as a separate three-step
-  # ruleset transition — see ADR-046 §Consequences.
+  # The name is deliberately tool-agnostic. It used to enumerate the tools
+  # ("gitleaks + tfsec + checkov + trivy fs"), which made it wrong the moment
+  # ADR-046 swapped one of them — and because it is a required status check,
+  # correcting it cost a three-step ruleset transition. Naming the CLASSES of
+  # check instead means the next tool swap touches no contract at all.
+  # See docs/governance/branch-protection.md §"Renaming a required check".
   # ---------------------------------------------------------------------
   self-audit:
-    name: Self-audit (gitleaks + tfsec + checkov + trivy fs)
+    name: Self-audit (secrets + IaC + supply chain)
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     permissions:
       contents: read
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c812563..7219b10 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,29 @@ Format follows [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/) and [Sem
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Changed — the security check is named for what it does, not for its tools
+
+- `Self-audit (gitleaks + tfsec + checkov + trivy fs)` →
+  **`Self-audit (secrets + IaC + supply chain)`**. The old name enumerated
+  its tools, so ADR-046 falsified it the moment tfsec was swapped for Trivy —
+  and because the job is one of the six required status checks, correcting it
+  was not a one-line edit.
+- **A required check is identified by its job-name string.** Rename the job
+  and the ruleset waits for a context that will never report, so the PR
+  containing the rename blocks itself. ADR-046 therefore shipped with a name
+  it knew to be wrong, and said so.
+- Executed as a three-step transition: drop the context from the ruleset by
+  direct API call (transient, never committed), merge the rename with all
+  three canonical sources moving together — `docs/governance/branch-protection.md`,
+  ADR-026 and `scripts/setup_branch_protection.sh` — then re-apply the
+  ruleset from the committed payload. The procedure is now written down in
+  `docs/governance/branch-protection.md` §"Renaming a required check",
+  including the caveat that the check is unrequired in between and that
+  re-adding one while red blocks every subsequent PR.
+- The new name describes the **classes** of check rather than the tools, so
+  the next tool swap touches no contract at all. That is the actual fix; the
+  rename is just this instance of it.
+
 ### Changed — Terraform IaC scanning moves from archived tfsec to Trivy config (ADR-046)
 
 - **tfsec is archived upstream** and was pinned to its final release,
@@ -49,11 +72,10 @@ Format follows [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/) and [Sem
   scanner now accepts an annotation on the line above the entry, matching
   the YAML scanner — a justification that needs a paragraph could not fit
   inline.
-- The `Self-audit (gitleaks + tfsec + checkov + trivy fs)` job **keeps its
-  now-inaccurate name**: it is one of the six required status checks in the
-  ADR-026 ruleset, and renaming it in the same change would block that very
-  change, because the required context would never report. Recorded in the
-  workflow and in ADR-046 as a separate three-step ruleset transition.
+- The `Self-audit` job kept its now-inaccurate name in that change: it is one
+  of the six required status checks in the ADR-026 ruleset, and renaming it
+  there would have blocked that very change, because the required context
+  would never report. **Since carried out** — see the rename entry below.
 ### Changed — baseline entries that can be verified now are verified, not dated
 
 - The two `runtime-artifact` entries in `.doc-path-baseline.yml` carried a
diff --git a/docs/decisions/ADR-026-branch-protection.md b/docs/decisions/ADR-026-branch-protection.md
index 0b14006..017ab4c 100644
--- a/docs/decisions/ADR-026-branch-protection.md
+++ b/docs/decisions/ADR-026-branch-protection.md
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Adopt **two GitHub Rulesets** on the repository:
 |----|----|----|
 | `Tests & Coverage / Python 3.11` | `ci-examples.yml` | Coverage + behavior |
 | `Tests & Coverage / Python 3.12` | `ci-examples.yml` | Forward Python compat |
-| `Self-audit (gitleaks + tfsec + checkov + trivy fs)` | `validate-templates.yml` | Security scans + secret detection |
+| `Self-audit (secrets + IaC + supply chain)` | `validate-templates.yml` | Security scans + secret detection |
 | `Python Lint + Type Check` | `validate-templates.yml` | black / isort / flake8 / mypy / bandit |
 | `Agentic System Validation` | `validate-templates.yml` | Governance contract: rules, skills, workflows, AGENTS.md |
 | `Scaffolder End-to-End Test` | `validate-templates.yml` | The scaffolder still produces a working service (catches D-32-class regressions) |
diff --git a/docs/decisions/ADR-046-tfsec-to-trivy-config-migration.md b/docs/decisions/ADR-046-tfsec-to-trivy-config-migration.md
index b8a361d..ab86f23 100644
--- a/docs/decisions/ADR-046-tfsec-to-trivy-config-migration.md
+++ b/docs/decisions/ADR-046-tfsec-to-trivy-config-migration.md
@@ -108,12 +108,18 @@ by a second number, so misconfiguration ids (`GCP-0061`) matched nothing.
   static-analysis limit rather than a tool defect.
 - `docs/audit/baseline-review.md`'s 2027-01-01 review now has one entry
   instead of three, and it is the one that will still be true then.
-- The `Self-audit (gitleaks + tfsec + checkov + trivy fs)` job **keeps its
-  name** despite no longer running tfsec. That name is one of the six
-  required status checks in the ADR-026 ruleset; renaming it in the same
-  change would block the very PR making the change, because the required
-  context would never report. The rename is a deliberate three-step ruleset
-  transition and is tracked separately.
+- The `Self-audit (gitleaks + tfsec + checkov + trivy fs)` job **kept its
+  name** in this change despite no longer running tfsec. That name is one of
+  the six required status checks in the ADR-026 ruleset; renaming it in the
+  same change would have blocked the very PR making the change, because the
+  required context would never report.
+
+  **Resolved since**: the rename was carried out as the three-step ruleset
+  transition this ADR anticipated, and the job is now
+  `{NEW}` — named for the classes of check rather
+  than the tools, so the next tool swap touches no contract. The procedure is
+  written down in `docs/governance/branch-protection.md`
+  §"Renaming a required check".
 - MEDIUM and LOW findings are now visible but not enforced. Raising the
   threshold is a separate decision with its own triage cost.
 
diff --git a/docs/governance/branch-protection.md b/docs/governance/branch-protection.md
index 3492c69..35c7029 100644
--- a/docs/governance/branch-protection.md
+++ b/docs/governance/branch-protection.md
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ the admin bypass actor is the break-glass path.
 |---|---|---|
 | `Tests & Coverage / Python 3.11` | `.github/workflows/ci-examples.yml` | ✅ |
 | `Tests & Coverage / Python 3.12` | `.github/workflows/ci-examples.yml` | ✅ |
-| `Self-audit (gitleaks + tfsec + checkov + trivy fs)` | `.github/workflows/validate-templates.yml` | ✅ |
+| `Self-audit (secrets + IaC + supply chain)` | `.github/workflows/validate-templates.yml` | ✅ |
 | `Python Lint + Type Check` | `.github/workflows/validate-templates.yml` | ✅ |
 | `Agentic System Validation` | `.github/workflows/validate-templates.yml` | ✅ |
 | `Scaffolder End-to-End Test` | `.github/workflows/validate-templates.yml` | ✅ |
@@ -127,6 +127,40 @@ GitHub.com → repo → Settings → Rules → Rulesets → New branch ruleset
 
 ---
 
+## Renaming a required check
+
+A required status check is identified by its **job name string**. Rename the
+job and the ruleset keeps waiting for a context that will never report, so
+the PR containing the rename can never go green — it blocks itself.
+
+This is not hypothetical: ADR-046 swapped tfsec for Trivy and had to leave
+the job named `Self-audit (gitleaks + tfsec + checkov + trivy fs)`, wrong on
+its face, because correcting it inside that PR would have deadlocked it.
+
+The transition is three steps, and the middle one is an ordinary PR:
+
+1. **Drop the context from the ruleset.** A direct API `PUT` against
+   `repos/:owner/:repo/rulesets/:id` with that one context removed. Do this
+   with no PRs open, and do **not** commit this state — it is transient, and
+   `scripts/setup_branch_protection.sh` stays the source of truth for the
+   final shape.
+2. **Merge the rename.** One PR renaming the job *and* updating all three
+   canonical sources together: this document, `ADR-026`, and the applier
+   script's payload. The other five checks still gate it.
+3. **Re-apply the ruleset** with `scripts/setup_branch_protection.sh`, which
+   now carries the new name. Verify with `--check` and by reading
+   `rules/branches/main` back.
+
+Between steps 1 and 3 that check is **not required**. Keep the window short,
+open no other PRs in it, and confirm the job is green on `main` before
+re-adding it — a required check re-added while red blocks every subsequent PR.
+
+**Prefer names that do not need this.** The name that caused the problem
+enumerated its tools, so any tool change falsified it. Naming the *classes*
+of check — `secrets + IaC + supply chain` — decouples the required-check
+contract from tool choice, which is why the rename went to that shape rather
+than to an updated tool list.
+
 ## Verification checklist
 
 After applying, confirm:
@@ -147,3 +181,4 @@ After applying, confirm:
 | 2026-05-15 | Initial ruleset (ADR-026) | `@DuqueOM` |
 | 2026-09-04 | Rulesets applied to the repository. The contract had been documented since 2026-05-15 but never deployed: `GET /rulesets` returned `0` and `GET /rules/branches/main` returned `0`, so `main` was unprotected the whole time. | `@DuqueOM` |
 | 2026-09-04 | Declared `required_reviewers`, `require_extra_approval_for_unattributed_changes` and `allowed_merge_methods` explicitly; previously left to GitHub defaults and therefore absent from this document. `allowed_merge_methods` narrowed to `[squash, rebase]` for coherence with `required_linear_history`. | `@DuqueOM` |
+| 2026-09-05 | Renamed the security check from `Self-audit (gitleaks + tfsec + checkov + trivy fs)` to `Self-audit (secrets + IaC + supply chain)` after ADR-046 made the tool list wrong. Executed as the three-step transition documented above. The new name is tool-agnostic so a future tool swap touches no contract. | `@DuqueOM` |
diff --git a/scripts/setup_branch_protection.sh b/scripts/setup_branch_protection.sh
index 90a2fcd..860d52c 100755
--- a/scripts/setup_branch_protection.sh
+++ b/scripts/setup_branch_protection.sh
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ read -r -d '' MAIN_RULESET_JSON <<'JSON' || true
         "required_status_checks": [
           { "context": "Tests & Coverage / Python 3.11" },
           { "context": "Tests & Coverage / Python 3.12" },
-          { "context": "Self-audit (gitleaks + tfsec + checkov + trivy fs)" },
+          { "context": "Self-audit (secrets + IaC + supply chain)" },
           { "context": "Python Lint + Type Check" },
           { "context": "Agentic System Validation" },
           { "context": "Scaffolder End-to-End Test" }