diff --git a/test/real-agent-demo.mjs b/scripts/real-agent-demo.mjs
similarity index 83%
rename from test/real-agent-demo.mjs
rename to scripts/real-agent-demo.mjs
index 906e8b9..848f2b6 100644
--- a/test/real-agent-demo.mjs
+++ b/scripts/real-agent-demo.mjs
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 // Real MCP-driven request_confirmation demo.
+// NOT a test: it posts a REAL confirmation card to the room and waits up to
+// 10 min. It lived in test/, where a bare `node --test` picked it up and sent
+// petrus two live "deploy to production?" cards on 7 Oct 2026. Run by hand.
 //
 // Acts as a Claude Code agent: spawns the IAK MCP server, calls
 // request_confirmation as it would in production, blocks until the user
diff --git a/src/confirmations.mjs b/src/confirmations.mjs
index 01d3d26..260f46e 100644
--- a/src/confirmations.mjs
+++ b/src/confirmations.mjs
@@ -2210,6 +2210,15 @@ export function startChatReplyPoller({ apiKey, room, intervalMs = 5000, log, own
         // to owners is the fix, silence never is.
         if (!ownerSet.has(sender)) {
           emit(`${text} from ${m.from}: sender is not the owner — ignoring`);
+          // Same multi-poller rule as the unknown-intent branch below: only
+          // the poller that HOLDS the intent may tell anyone it failed. On
+          // 7 Oct 2026 petrus approved 2806f59b; the Mini's poller (which
+          // holds it, and lists him as owner) settled it, while this
+          // MacBook's poller (no owners configured, never held the id)
+          // answered "NOT recorded" in the room. Refusing is right; the
+          // public failure notice from a poller that does not own the
+          // intent is a false alarm.
+          if (!getIntent(match[2])) continue;
           // Answer only senders who plausibly ARE the owner (`petrus`,
           // `petrus-boox`, a future `petrus-watch`). claudeMB's review caught
           // that replying to everything amplifies the very misbehaviour this
diff --git a/test/confirmations.test.mjs b/test/confirmations.test.mjs
index de3f6c2..3206a3c 100644
--- a/test/confirmations.test.mjs
+++ b/test/confirmations.test.mjs
@@ -1052,3 +1052,37 @@ test('the HTML queue renders the server wording, and never calls an unknown outc
     server.close();
   }
 });
+
+test('chat-reply poller: a non-owner /approve for an intent held elsewhere stays silent', async () => {
+  // 7 Oct 2026: a second poller with no owners and no such intent posted
+  // "NOT recorded" over an approval the owning poller had already settled.
+  _resetForTests();
+  const batches = [
+    { messages: [] },
+    { messages: [
+      { id: 'x1', from: 'petrus', body: '/approve 2806f59b', isHuman: true },
+    ] },
+  ];
+  let call = 0;
+  const posts = [];
+  const originalFetch = globalThis.fetch;
+  globalThis.fetch = async (url, opts) => {
+    if (opts && opts.method === 'POST') { posts.push(JSON.parse(opts.body)); return { ok: true, json: async () => ({}) }; }
+    const batch = batches[Math.min(call++, batches.length - 1)];
+    return { ok: true, json: async () => batch };
+  };
+  const lines = [];
+  const handle = startChatReplyPoller({
+    apiKey: 'k', room: 'r', intervalMs: 10,
+    owners: [],
+    log: (m) => lines.push(m),
+  });
+  try {
+    await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 120));
+  } finally {
+    clearInterval(handle);
+    globalThis.fetch = originalFetch;
+  }
+  assert.equal(posts.length, 0, 'no room reply for an intent this poller does not hold');
+  assert.match(lines.join('\n'), /not the owner/, 'the refusal is still logged');
+});