diff --git a/src/skill.mjs b/src/skill.mjs
index 8dd7bd6..37030dd 100644
Binary files a/src/skill.mjs and b/src/skill.mjs differ
diff --git a/support/marketplace-watch.mjs b/support/marketplace-watch.mjs
index bffeb4b..b2c4fb3 100644
--- a/support/marketplace-watch.mjs
+++ b/support/marketplace-watch.mjs
@@ -16,16 +16,41 @@
 import fs from 'node:fs';
 import path from 'node:path';
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
-import { scan, skillHash, discoverMarketplaceSkills } from '../src/index.mjs';
+import { scan, scanSkill, skillHash, discoverMarketplaceSkills } from '../src/index.mjs';
 
 const ADVISORY_ROWS_SHOWN = 80; // WATCH.md stays readable; results.json has every row
 
 // Reviewed-benign findings, accepted with truecopy's `--force` semantics: each
 // entry accepts a skill's findings for EXACTLY the bytes reviewed (keyed by
 // skill hash). Any drift — or new findings on other skills — flags as usual.
+// High-churn vendor skills can opt into per-file granularity (#68) with
+// `"granularity": "finding-files"` + `"files": { <path>: <sha256>, … }`: the
+// acceptance is keyed to the reviewed finding-bearing files instead of the
+// whole-skill hash, so an unrelated upstream docs release no longer lapses it.
 let accepted = {};
 try { accepted = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(fileURLToPath(new URL('watch-accepted.json', import.meta.url)), 'utf8')); } catch { /* no accept file = accept nothing */ }
 
+// Does an accept entry still cover this scanned skill?
+//   whole-skill (default) — `hash` must equal today's skill hash: any byte
+//   anywhere re-flags. Fail-closed and churn-prone by design.
+//   finding-files — every file listed in `files` that is still present at its
+//   reviewed bytes is EXCLUDED, and the REMAINDER of the skill must scan clean
+//   on the same detection pipeline. Since we only get here when the full skill
+//   flagged, a clean remainder proves every current finding lives in a reviewed,
+//   byte-identical file: a reviewed file that drifts rejoins the scan (its
+//   fixtures re-flag), and a new finding in a new or changed file flags on its
+//   own. An entry with no usable `files` map excludes nothing — the remainder is
+//   the whole flagged skill, so it fails closed.
+function covers(a, skill) {
+  if (a.granularity !== 'finding-files') return a.hash === skillHash(skill);
+  const reviewed = (a.files && typeof a.files === 'object') ? a.files : {};
+  const hashOf = Object.fromEntries((skill.files || []).map((f) => [f.path, f.hash]));
+  const rest = (skill.scanPieces || []).filter((p) => hashOf[p.path] !== reviewed[p.path]);
+  if (!rest.length) return true;
+  const s = scanSkill({ kind: 'skill', name: skill.name, scanTargets: [{ name: skill.name, description: rest.map((p) => p.text).join('\n') }] });
+  return s.verdict === 'clean';
+}
+
 const [rootArg, outDir] = process.argv.slice(2);
 if (!rootArg || !outDir) {
   console.error('usage: marketplace-watch.mjs <corpus-or-clone> <out-dir>');
@@ -86,7 +111,7 @@ for (const s of skills) {
   if (r.verdict !== 'clean') {
     const findings = r.findings.map((f) => `${f.tool}: ${f.flags.join('; ')}`);
     const a = accepted[s.name];
-    if (a && a.hash === skillHash(r.skill)) acceptedRows.push({ name: s.name, findings, class: a.class, note: a.note });
+    if (a && covers(a, r.skill)) acceptedRows.push({ name: s.name, findings, class: a.class, note: a.note, ...(a.granularity ? { granularity: a.granularity } : {}) });
     else flaggedRows.push({ name: s.name, verdict: r.verdict, findings });
   } else if (advisories.length) {
     advisoryRows.push({ name: s.name, advisories });
@@ -134,10 +159,10 @@ if (poisoned) {
 if (acceptedRows.length) {
   md.push('## Accepted findings (reviewed benign)');
   md.push('');
-  md.push('Skills whose findings were manually reviewed and accepted for **exactly these bytes** ([watch-accepted.json](https://github.com/askalf/truecopy/blob/master/support/watch-accepted.json), truecopy\'s `--force` semantics) — any content change re-flags them.');
+  md.push('Skills whose findings were manually reviewed and accepted for **exactly these bytes** ([watch-accepted.json](https://github.com/askalf/truecopy/blob/master/support/watch-accepted.json), truecopy\'s `--force` semantics) — any content change re-flags them. Entries marked *per-file* key the acceptance to the reviewed finding-bearing files instead: those files changing re-flags, and everything else in the skill must still scan clean, but unrelated upstream churn no longer lapses the review.');
   md.push('');
   for (const r of acceptedRows) {
-    md.push(`- **${r.name}** — ${r.findings.join(' · ')} — *${r.class}${r.note ? `: ${r.note}` : ''}*`);
+    md.push(`- **${r.name}** — ${r.findings.join(' · ')} — *${r.class}${r.note ? `: ${r.note}` : ''}*${r.granularity === 'finding-files' ? ' *(per-file)*' : ''}`);
   }
   md.push('');
 }
diff --git a/support/watch-accept.mjs b/support/watch-accept.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..51c9cec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/support/watch-accept.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+// Author a watch-accepted.json entry for a skill you just hand-reviewed —
+// prints the entry JSON to paste under its catalog name (fill in class/note).
+//
+//   node support/watch-accept.mjs <skill-dir>           # whole-skill hash entry
+//   node support/watch-accept.mjs <skill-dir> --files   # per-file granularity (#68)
+//
+// --files keys the acceptance to the finding-bearing files: each file is scanned
+// alone to attribute the findings, then the attribution is verified with exactly
+// the predicate the watch uses (everything OUTSIDE the recorded files must scan
+// clean). If that remainder still flags — e.g. a finding only matches across a
+// file boundary — the helper refuses per-file mode rather than emit an entry
+// that silences something no single file carries.
+import { scan, scanSkill, skillHash } from '../src/index.mjs';
+
+const args = process.argv.slice(2);
+const wantFiles = args.includes('--files');
+const dir = args.find((a) => a !== '--files');
+if (!dir) {
+  console.error('usage: watch-accept.mjs <skill-dir> [--files]');
+  process.exit(2);
+}
+
+const r = scan(dir);
+if (r.verdict === 'clean') {
+  console.error(`${dir}: scans clean — nothing to accept`);
+  process.exit(2);
+}
+console.error(`${r.skill.name}: ${r.findings.length} finding(s)`);
+for (const f of r.findings) console.error(`  ${f.tool}: ${f.flags.join('; ')}`);
+
+const reviewed = new Date().toISOString().slice(0, 10);
+const entry = { class: 'FILL ME IN', note: 'FILL ME IN', reviewed };
+
+if (!wantFiles) {
+  console.log(JSON.stringify({ hash: skillHash(r.skill), ...entry }, null, 2));
+  process.exit(0);
+}
+
+const pieces = r.skill.scanPieces || [];
+if (!pieces.length) {
+  console.error(`${dir}: not a skill directory — per-file granularity needs one`);
+  process.exit(2);
+}
+const scanOne = (ps) => scanSkill({ kind: 'skill', name: r.skill.name, scanTargets: [{ name: r.skill.name, description: ps.map((p) => p.text).join('\n') }] });
+const bearing = pieces.filter((p) => scanOne([p]).verdict !== 'clean');
+if (scanOne(pieces.filter((p) => !bearing.includes(p))).verdict !== 'clean') {
+  console.error(`${dir}: findings not attributable to individual files — use the whole-skill hash entry`);
+  process.exit(2);
+}
+const hashOf = Object.fromEntries(r.skill.files.map((f) => [f.path, f.hash]));
+const files = Object.fromEntries(bearing.map((p) => [p.path, hashOf[p.path]]));
+console.error(`finding-bearing files: ${Object.keys(files).join(', ') || '(none)'}`);
+console.log(JSON.stringify({ granularity: 'finding-files', files, ...entry }, null, 2));
diff --git a/support/watch-accepted.json b/support/watch-accepted.json
index f4bfdb7..ca53233 100644
--- a/support/watch-accepted.json
+++ b/support/watch-accepted.json
@@ -1,20 +1,33 @@
 {
   "agentforce-adlc:agentforce-generate": {
-    "hash": "bddf57157b63206f7c5ac2ea68321a71b316d7b259ffa9041eb3aa8ac762a833",
+    "granularity": "finding-files",
+    "files": {
+      "references/safety-review-reference.md": "af86e02ad86aa84deec037bbb512ce04f11b66c8fecc4edc128ba836458e61ac"
+    },
     "class": "security-testing fixtures",
-    "note": "Salesforce Agentforce docs ship attack strings as test payloads — re-accepted 2026-07-17 after a second upstream drift this week: v0.9 adds an agent-optimization workflow (4 new pattern reference docs, hand-read in full); fixture content unchanged",
+    "note": "Salesforce Agentforce docs ship attack strings as test payloads — per-file acceptance (#68) after two whole-skill lapses in one week (#65, #67), both re-reviews finding only unrelated docs churn; the fixture file is the reviewed bytes from those reads",
     "reviewed": "2026-07-17"
   },
   "agentforce-adlc:agentforce-secure": {
-    "hash": "2f2bf93f5f3efcb07e6e404cffbd295195267fb441c88857238c72b315e60723",
+    "granularity": "finding-files",
+    "files": {
+      "SKILL.md": "5f1a1485c36043656047794d08e4f78f3d274ed1e56b2bb0d969349c5ee75985",
+      "assets/payloads/prompt-injection.yaml": "a42cebb9dbf7633f1f0ad1ebf6ba0a221f9e5817be49dc6dc42786d8fe4094d4",
+      "assets/payloads/system-prompt-leakage.yaml": "3a156fc7815c1ca1ed7b2535929f0d6a59fce4d009bf3aef8c01073b907869d6",
+      "references/owasp-categories.md": "98fb14d493183edb965932ccd69bc4d2050ef334ad35b74aa4443e4a4d75ec0e",
+      "references/remediation-guide.md": "529cfc5533688473735f5b082af5525820dca1c4c401051deccb3b817f4daa7a"
+    },
     "class": "security-testing fixtures",
-    "note": "Salesforce Agentforce docs ship attack strings as test payloads",
+    "note": "Salesforce Agentforce docs ship attack strings as test payloads — per-file acceptance (#68), fixture bytes identical to the 2026-07-09 review",
     "reviewed": "2026-07-09"
   },
   "agentforce-adlc:agentforce-test": {
-    "hash": "8a23ff1c327b162c024bc79d348f91c3644cebf4bd04bcfbfb58dbb26ffed989",
+    "granularity": "finding-files",
+    "files": {
+      "references/preview-testing.md": "d3a51189f07a524f4eb5c41fb96c4ac7adbfcbc2c858241bd9a4d426af1cf7c5"
+    },
     "class": "security-testing fixtures",
-    "note": "Salesforce Agentforce docs ship attack strings as test payloads",
+    "note": "Salesforce Agentforce docs ship attack strings as test payloads — per-file acceptance (#68), fixture bytes identical to the 2026-07-09 review",
     "reviewed": "2026-07-09"
   },
   "aws-data-analytics:finding-data-lake-assets": {
diff --git a/test/marketplace-watch.test.mjs b/test/marketplace-watch.test.mjs
index 91e165d..f6315dc 100644
--- a/test/marketplace-watch.test.mjs
+++ b/test/marketplace-watch.test.mjs
@@ -176,6 +176,105 @@ test('accepted findings pass for exactly those bytes and re-flag on drift', asyn
   assert.equal(s2.accepted, 0);
 });
 
+// ── per-file acceptance granularity (#68): reviewed files pin, the rest may churn ──
+
+// Stage a watch script copy next to a bespoke accept file (the script resolves
+// watch-accepted.json and ../src relative to itself). src/node_modules land in
+// baseDir once, shared by every stage.
+function stageWatch(name, acceptedMap) {
+  const stage = path.join(baseDir, name);
+  fs.mkdirSync(stage, { recursive: true });
+  const staged = path.join(stage, 'marketplace-watch.mjs');
+  fs.copyFileSync(WATCH, staged);
+  if (!fs.existsSync(path.join(baseDir, 'src'))) fs.cpSync(fileURLToPath(new URL('../src', import.meta.url)), path.join(baseDir, 'src'), { recursive: true });
+  if (!fs.existsSync(path.join(baseDir, 'node_modules'))) fs.cpSync(fileURLToPath(new URL('../node_modules', import.meta.url)), path.join(baseDir, 'node_modules'), { recursive: true });
+  fs.writeFileSync(path.join(stage, 'watch-accepted.json'), JSON.stringify(acceptedMap));
+  return staged;
+}
+
+test('per-file acceptance: unrelated churn holds, new findings and reviewed-file drift lapse', async () => {
+  const { scan } = await import('../src/index.mjs');
+  const dir = path.join(baseDir, 'p-perfile');
+  const skillDir = path.join(dir, 'skills', 'sneaky');
+  put(path.join(skillDir, 'SKILL.md'), POISON);
+  put(path.join(skillDir, 'docs', 'notes.md'), CLEAN);
+  const corpus = mkCorpus('corpus-perfile', [{ name: 'p-perfile', kind: 'local', dir, status: 'ok' }]);
+
+  // accept keyed to the finding-bearing file only
+  const hashOf = Object.fromEntries(scan(skillDir).skill.files.map((f) => [f.path, f.hash]));
+  const staged = stageWatch('stage-perfile', {
+    'p-perfile:sneaky': { granularity: 'finding-files', files: { 'SKILL.md': hashOf['SKILL.md'] }, class: 'test fixture', note: 'per-file acceptance' },
+  });
+  const run = (out) => spawnSync(process.execPath, [staged, corpus, path.join(baseDir, out)], { encoding: 'utf8' });
+
+  // baseline: accepted, and reported as per-file
+  const r1 = run('out-perfile-1');
+  assert.equal(r1.status, 0, r1.stdout + r1.stderr);
+  assert.equal(JSON.parse(r1.stdout).accepted, 1);
+  const results1 = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(baseDir, 'out-perfile-1', 'results.json'), 'utf8'));
+  assert.equal(results1.acceptedDetail[0].granularity, 'finding-files');
+  assert.match(fs.readFileSync(path.join(baseDir, 'out-perfile-1', 'WATCH.md'), 'utf8'), /\(per-file\)/);
+
+  // unrelated churn — a new doc and a changed doc — HOLDS (the whole point of #68)
+  put(path.join(skillDir, 'docs', 'notes.md'), CLEAN + 'v2: more notes\n');
+  put(path.join(skillDir, 'docs', 'changelog.md'), CLEAN);
+  const r2 = run('out-perfile-2');
+  assert.equal(r2.status, 0, r2.stdout + r2.stderr);
+  const s2 = JSON.parse(r2.stdout);
+  assert.equal(s2.poisoned, 0);
+  assert.equal(s2.accepted, 1);
+
+  // a NEW finding in a new file lapses it — detection still runs on the full skill
+  put(path.join(skillDir, 'docs', 'extra.md'), POISON);
+  const r3 = run('out-perfile-3');
+  assert.equal(r3.status, 1, r3.stdout + r3.stderr);
+  assert.equal(JSON.parse(r3.stdout).poisoned, 1);
+  fs.rmSync(path.join(skillDir, 'docs', 'extra.md'));
+
+  // the reviewed file itself drifting lapses it — that guarantee is preserved
+  put(path.join(skillDir, 'SKILL.md'), POISON + 'now with different bytes\n');
+  const r4 = run('out-perfile-4');
+  assert.equal(r4.status, 1, r4.stdout + r4.stderr);
+  const s4 = JSON.parse(r4.stdout);
+  assert.equal(s4.poisoned, 1);
+  assert.equal(s4.accepted, 0);
+});
+
+test('per-file acceptance: an entry with no files map fails closed', () => {
+  const dir = path.join(baseDir, 'p-nofiles');
+  put(path.join(dir, 'skills', 'sneaky', 'SKILL.md'), POISON);
+  const corpus = mkCorpus('corpus-nofiles', [{ name: 'p-nofiles', kind: 'local', dir, status: 'ok' }]);
+  const staged = stageWatch('stage-nofiles', {
+    'p-nofiles:sneaky': { granularity: 'finding-files', class: 'test fixture', note: 'no files listed' },
+  });
+  const r = spawnSync(process.execPath, [staged, corpus, path.join(baseDir, 'out-nofiles')], { encoding: 'utf8' });
+  assert.equal(r.status, 1, r.stdout + r.stderr);
+  assert.equal(JSON.parse(r.stdout).poisoned, 1);
+});
+
+test('watch-accept --files emits an entry the watch accepts, keyed to the finding-bearing file', async () => {
+  const { scan } = await import('../src/index.mjs');
+  const ACCEPT = fileURLToPath(new URL('../support/watch-accept.mjs', import.meta.url));
+  const dir = path.join(baseDir, 'p-author');
+  const skillDir = path.join(dir, 'skills', 'sneaky');
+  put(path.join(skillDir, 'SKILL.md'), POISON);
+  put(path.join(skillDir, 'docs', 'notes.md'), CLEAN);
+
+  const r = spawnSync(process.execPath, [ACCEPT, skillDir, '--files'], { encoding: 'utf8' });
+  assert.equal(r.status, 0, r.stdout + r.stderr);
+  const entry = JSON.parse(r.stdout);
+  assert.equal(entry.granularity, 'finding-files');
+  const hashOf = Object.fromEntries(scan(skillDir).skill.files.map((f) => [f.path, f.hash]));
+  assert.deepEqual(entry.files, { 'SKILL.md': hashOf['SKILL.md'] });
+
+  // the emitted entry round-trips through the watch
+  const corpus = mkCorpus('corpus-author', [{ name: 'p-author', kind: 'local', dir, status: 'ok' }]);
+  const staged = stageWatch('stage-author', { 'p-author:sneaky': { ...entry, class: 'test fixture', note: 'authored' } });
+  const w = spawnSync(process.execPath, [staged, corpus, path.join(baseDir, 'out-author')], { encoding: 'utf8' });
+  assert.equal(w.status, 0, w.stdout + w.stderr);
+  assert.equal(JSON.parse(w.stdout).accepted, 1);
+});
+
 // ── legacy mode: a plain marketplace clone still works ──
 
 test('legacy mode: a plugins/-tree clone scans in place with a plugin count', () => {