diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 596e1265..53340922 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ product overview.
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+- Fix open SSH sessions retaining stale channel secrets after additions, rotations or removals.
+  Refreshes now recheck the developer’s access and close sessions when access is revoked or
+  their mounted workspace/runtime changes.
+
 - Show the active model in Slack's native Stop control using a per-session display name.
   Existing apps need `chat:write.customize` and reinstallation; missing customization permission
   preserves the native Stop button with its usual name.
diff --git a/FEATURES.md b/FEATURES.md
index cda079e4..589bbd03 100644
--- a/FEATURES.md
+++ b/FEATURES.md
@@ -3326,7 +3326,10 @@ are retired, bullet by bullet; everything else stands.
   their last session ends, refreshed every 20 minutes AND within `CONFIG_REFRESH_DEBOUNCE_MS` of a
   configuration write that concerns the session (`src/config/change-events.js`: every channel-meta,
   user and organization-secret write emits after it commits; the broker re-prepares the sessions
-  of that channel, that developer, or all of them, coalesced per session). The login is an
+  of that channel, that developer, or all of them, coalesced per session). Each refresh reauthorizes
+  the key and developer against current channel metadata and serializes preparation, so secret
+  additions, rotations and removals reach an already open session. Revoked access or a changed
+  mounted workspace/runtime closes the session; reconnecting uses the new configuration. The login is an
   ACCESS-ONLY `.credentials.json` in the channel's config
   dir plus the operator's account record — never a refresh token — written through the relay and
   removed with the channel's last session, so an interactive `claude` shows "Claude Max account",
diff --git a/TEST-PLAN.md b/TEST-PLAN.md
index dadadc88..d0812948 100644
--- a/TEST-PLAN.md
+++ b/TEST-PLAN.md
@@ -8445,6 +8445,10 @@ are the v0.8 production deployment gate and are executed in the QA loop that fol
       change that concerns it — its channel, its developer, or the organization's secrets — one
       refresh per burst, never for another channel's or developer's change, never for an ended
       session (automated: `test/change-events.test.js`, `test/ssh-broker.test.js`).
+- [x] Unit: an attached session reads fresh metadata after actual secret add, rotate and remove
+      writes, and current developer authority after a user write. Revoking the SSH grant or
+      approved status closes the session and releases its lease; a changed mounted work folder
+      closes it before preparing credentials for the new target (automated: `test/ssh-broker.test.js`).
 - [x] Unit: one tool per verb for secrets — `list_secrets` lists the three scopes in one call
       (names, masked tails, authors; never a value; the organization's tails only for admins; a
       person only their own personal scope; an unverified principal no personal scope; `scope`
diff --git a/src/gateway/ssh-broker.js b/src/gateway/ssh-broker.js
index dd507114..4139dd3a 100644
--- a/src/gateway/ssh-broker.js
+++ b/src/gateway/ssh-broker.js
@@ -137,6 +137,17 @@ function writeLine(socket, payload) {
   }
 }
 
+// A refresh may change credentials and tool policy, but cannot move an attached shell to a
+// different container or mount set. Compare the unresolved plans on both sides: ensureUp fills
+// in image/auth details on the original target after this snapshot is taken.
+function sessionTargetKey(target) {
+  return JSON.stringify([
+    target?.backend, target?.runtimeScope, target?.workDir, target?.cleanWorkDir, target?.artifactDir,
+    target?.container?.name, target?.container?.network,
+    target?.container?.mounts, target?.container?.credentialMode,
+  ]);
+}
+
 // One brokered session, from an already-parsed header to the last byte.
 async function runSession(socket, header, leftover, state) {
   const { deps, log } = state;
@@ -167,6 +178,7 @@ async function runSession(socket, header, leftover, state) {
     socket.end();
     return;
   }
+  const targetKey = sessionTargetKey(target);
   // The lease comes FIRST — before ensureUp, like run.js — so the reaper cannot stop the container
   // between "it is up" and "sshd is inside".
   const lease = target.runtime.acquireLease(target, { kind: "ssh", id });
@@ -219,16 +231,46 @@ async function runSession(socket, header, leftover, state) {
     let prepared = { mcpServers: [], secrets: [], rejectedMcps: [], problems: [], toolset: "" };
     count(1);
     counted = true;
-    const refresh = async () => {
-      try {
-        prepared = await deps.prepareSession({ target, entry, meta, user, cliBin, log });
-        claude = prepared.claude || { relayed: true, source: "", reason: "" };
-      } catch (error) {
-        claude = { relayed: false, reason: String(error?.message || error) };
-        log.warn?.(`[ssh] Claude relay for ${entry.slug}: ${claude.reason}`);
-      }
+    let refreshQueue = Promise.resolve();
+    const refresh = () => {
+      // Re-read at execution time, including after a queued refresh. A configuration event is
+      // only a wake-up; neither the attach-time metadata nor the original user rank is authority.
+      const next = refreshQueue.then(async () => {
+        if (done) return false;
+        let current, currentTarget;
+        try {
+          current = await deps.authorize({ ...header, channel: entry.channelId });
+          if (!current.ok || current.key.id !== key.id || current.user.id !== user.id
+              || current.entry.slug !== entry.slug || current.entry.channelId !== entry.channelId) {
+            await finish("SSH access is no longer authorized");
+            return false;
+          }
+          currentTarget = deps.resolveTarget(current.entry.slug, current.meta);
+          if (sessionTargetKey(currentTarget) !== targetKey) {
+            await finish("the channel runtime changed — reconnect to use its current configuration");
+            return false;
+          }
+        } catch {
+          await finish("SSH authorization could not be refreshed");
+          return false;
+        }
+        if (done) return false;
+        try {
+          prepared = await deps.prepareSession({
+            target: { ...target, meta: current.meta, settings: currentTarget.settings },
+            entry: current.entry, meta: current.meta, user: current.user, cliBin, log,
+          });
+          claude = prepared.claude || { relayed: true, source: "", reason: "" };
+        } catch (error) {
+          claude = { relayed: false, reason: String(error?.message || error) };
+          log.warn?.(`[ssh] Claude relay for ${entry.slug}: ${claude.reason}`);
+        }
+        return !done;
+      });
+      refreshQueue = next.catch(() => {});
+      return next;
     };
-    await refresh();
+    if (!(await refresh())) return;
     session.refresh = refresh;
     child = deps.spawnExec(target, cliBin);
     touchSshKey(key.id);
diff --git a/test/ssh-broker.test.js b/test/ssh-broker.test.js
index d54b6737..eb8750d5 100644
--- a/test/ssh-broker.test.js
+++ b/test/ssh-broker.test.js
@@ -273,6 +273,81 @@ test("a configuration write that concerns a live session re-prepares it at once;
   assert.equal(prepared.length, base + 3, "an ended session is never re-prepared");
 });
 
+test("an open session receives current channel secrets and user authority after actual writes", async () => {
+  const state = await broker.startSshBroker({ dir: SSH_DIR, log: silent, retryMs: 0, deps, authorizeOptions });
+  const prepareSession = state.deps.prepareSession;
+  const original = await getChannelMeta(entry.slug);
+  const observed = [];
+  state.deps.prepareSession = async (session) => {
+    observed.push({ value: session.meta.env?.QA_REFRESH?.value, admin: session.user.admin });
+    return prepareSession(session);
+  };
+  const waitFor = async (predicate) => {
+    const deadline = Date.now() + 2000;
+    while (!predicate()) {
+      assert.ok(Date.now() < deadline, "session did not observe the current configuration");
+      await settle();
+    }
+  };
+  let socket;
+  try {
+    ({ socket } = await attach({ v: 1, key: ED25519, channel: entry.slug, client: "secret-refresh" }));
+    assert.equal(observed.at(-1).value, undefined);
+    for (const value of ["added", "rotated", undefined]) {
+      const before = observed.length;
+      await saveChannelMeta(entry.slug, { ...original, env: value ? { QA_REFRESH: { provider: "local", value, exposure: "readable" } } : {} });
+      await waitFor(() => observed.length > before);
+      assert.equal(observed.at(-1).value, value, "add, rotation and removal reach the same attached session");
+      assert.equal(broker.liveSshSessions({ slug: entry.slug }).length, 1);
+    }
+    const before = observed.length;
+    await setUser(DEV, { name: "Apps", approved: true, isAdmin: true });
+    await waitFor(() => observed.length > before);
+    assert.equal(observed.at(-1).admin, true, "the refreshed user rank is current too");
+    await saveChannelMeta(entry.slug, { ...original, sshUsers: [] });
+    await waitFor(() => broker.liveSshSessions({ slug: entry.slug }).length === 0);
+    assert.equal(children.at(-1).signalCode, "SIGTERM", "revoked access closes the existing session");
+  } finally {
+    socket?.destroy();
+    await settle();
+    state.deps.prepareSession = prepareSession;
+    await saveChannelMeta(entry.slug, original);
+    await setUser(DEV, { name: "Apps", approved: true, isAdmin: false });
+  }
+});
+
+test("refresh refuses revoked user authority or a changed mounted work folder", async () => {
+  const state = await broker.startSshBroker({ dir: SSH_DIR, log: silent, retryMs: 0, deps, authorizeOptions });
+  const original = await getChannelMeta(entry.slug);
+  const resolve = state.deps.resolveTarget;
+  state.deps.resolveTarget = (slug, meta) => ({ ...resolve(slug, meta), workDir: meta.workDir || `/work/${slug}` });
+  try {
+    for (const change of ["user", "workDir"]) {
+      const { socket, line } = await attach({ v: 1, key: ED25519, channel: entry.slug, client: change });
+      assert.equal(line.ok, true);
+      const child = children.at(-1), before = prepared.length;
+      if (change === "user") await setUser(DEV, { name: "Apps", approved: false, isAdmin: false });
+      else await saveChannelMeta(entry.slug, { ...original, workDir: "/work/another-project" });
+      const deadline = Date.now() + 2000;
+      while (broker.liveSshSessions({ slug: entry.slug }).length) {
+        assert.ok(Date.now() < deadline, "the old session remained authorized");
+        await settle();
+      }
+      await settle();
+      assert.equal(child.signalCode, "SIGTERM");
+      assert.equal(prepared.length, before, "no refreshed credentials are staged into the old runtime");
+      assert.equal(reaper.leaseCount(`cg-${entry.slug}`), 0);
+      socket.destroy();
+      await setUser(DEV, { name: "Apps", approved: true, isAdmin: false });
+      await saveChannelMeta(entry.slug, original);
+    }
+  } finally {
+    state.deps.resolveTarget = resolve;
+    await setUser(DEV, { name: "Apps", approved: true, isAdmin: false });
+    await saveChannelMeta(entry.slug, original);
+  }
+});
+
 test("refusals name the remedy and leave no lease, no session and no exec behind", async () => {
   const before = children.length;
   const cases = [