diff --git a/packages/loopover-engine/src/governor-ledger.ts b/packages/loopover-engine/src/governor-ledger.ts
index 374542a26b..b2fa15260d 100644
--- a/packages/loopover-engine/src/governor-ledger.ts
+++ b/packages/loopover-engine/src/governor-ledger.ts
@@ -36,11 +36,25 @@ function normalizeRequiredString(value: unknown, code: string): string {
   return trimmed;
 }
 
+// #5831/#7525's path-safety guard, restated locally. The miner package's parsers share
+// repo-clone.ts's isValidRepoSegment, but this engine package must not import from the miner package
+// (miner depends on engine, not the reverse), so the semantics are duplicated here deliberately:
+// a segment must be entirely [A-Za-z0-9._-] and must not be a bare "." or ".." traversal segment.
+const REPO_SEGMENT_PATTERN = /^[A-Za-z0-9._-]+$/;
+
+function isValidRepoSegment(segment: string): boolean {
+  return REPO_SEGMENT_PATTERN.test(segment) && segment !== "." && segment !== "..";
+}
+
 function normalizeOptionalRepoFullName(repoFullName: unknown): string | null {
   if (repoFullName === undefined || repoFullName === null) return null;
   if (typeof repoFullName !== "string") throw new Error("invalid_repo_full_name");
   const [owner, repo, extra] = repoFullName.trim().split("/");
   if (!owner || !repo || extra !== undefined) throw new Error("invalid_repo_full_name");
+  // This is the WRITE path (normalizeGovernorLedgerEvent -> appendGovernorEvent's SQLite INSERT). Without
+  // this, "../evilrepo" normalized unchanged -- owner ".." and repo "evilrepo" both pass the
+  // non-empty/one-slash check -- and reached persistence, the exact value class #7525 exists to stop.
+  if (!isValidRepoSegment(owner) || !isValidRepoSegment(repo)) throw new Error("invalid_repo_full_name");
   return `${owner}/${repo}`;
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/loopover-engine/test/governor-ledger.test.ts b/packages/loopover-engine/test/governor-ledger.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fc13416307
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diff --git a/test/unit/governor-ledger.test.ts b/test/unit/governor-ledger.test.ts
index 7ad1d55ff7..c7f3dc9f90 100644
--- a/test/unit/governor-ledger.test.ts
+++ b/test/unit/governor-ledger.test.ts
@@ -60,6 +60,35 @@ describe("governor ledger normalization (#2328)", () => {
     ).toThrow(/invalid_event_type/);
   });
 
+  it("REGRESSION (#8350): rejects a path-traversal or invalid-character repo segment on the WRITE path", () => {
+    // normalizeGovernorLedgerEvent backs appendGovernorEvent's SQLite INSERT. It only checked "exactly two
+    // non-empty segments", so "../evilrepo" normalized unchanged (owner "..", repo "evilrepo") and reached
+    // persistence -- the value class #5831/#7525 already guard against in every miner-lib sibling parser.
+    const base = {
+      eventType: "denied",
+      actionClass: "open_pr",
+      decision: "deny",
+      reason: "x",
+    };
+    for (const repoFullName of [
+      "../evilrepo",   // traversal owner
+      "acme/..",       // traversal repo
+      "./acme",        // bare-dot owner
+      "acme/.",        // bare-dot repo
+      "ac me/widgets", // space -> outside [A-Za-z0-9._-]
+      "acme/wid;gets", // shell metacharacter
+      "acme/wid\u0000gets", // control character
+    ]) {
+      expect(() => normalizeGovernorLedgerEvent({ ...base, repoFullName }), repoFullName).toThrow(
+        /invalid_repo_full_name/,
+      );
+    }
+    // Legitimate slugs (including the dots/dashes/underscores real repos use) still normalize.
+    for (const repoFullName of ["acme/widgets", "acme-co/my_widget.js", "a/b"]) {
+      expect(normalizeGovernorLedgerEvent({ ...base, repoFullName }).repoFullName).toBe(repoFullName);
+    }
+  });
+
   it("rejects malformed repo slugs, blank required strings, and lossy payloads", () => {
     const base = {
       eventType: "throttled",