diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
index be0ddb9c8..33f447bde 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ jobs:
               # either side changing alone is the drift this test exists to catch.
               - 'scripts/tests/test-restrict-homepage-service-groups.sh'
               - 'scripts/tests/test-kyverno-umami-mutation-rbac.sh'
+              - 'scripts/tests/test-tenant-route-hostname-boundary.sh'
               - 'scripts/tests/test-umami-provisioning-bootstrap.sh'
               - 'scripts/tests/test-kyverno-admission-vpa.sh'
               - 'scripts/tests/kyverno-admission-vpa-rules.yaml'
@@ -450,6 +451,8 @@ jobs:
           bash scripts/tests/test-restrict-homepage-service-groups.sh
           shellcheck scripts/tests/test-kyverno-umami-mutation-rbac.sh
           bash scripts/tests/test-kyverno-umami-mutation-rbac.sh
+          shellcheck scripts/tests/test-tenant-route-hostname-boundary.sh
+          bash scripts/tests/test-tenant-route-hostname-boundary.sh
           shellcheck scripts/tests/test-actual-budget-auth-route.sh
           bash scripts/tests/test-actual-budget-auth-route.sh
 
diff --git a/docs/TENANTS.md b/docs/TENANTS.md
index 96c167208..cee305fd2 100644
--- a/docs/TENANTS.md
+++ b/docs/TENANTS.md
@@ -220,8 +220,26 @@ carry itself**:
 here** — **hostnames**, **`gethomepage.dev/*` dashboard annotations**, routes, and app config:
 
 - List all of a tenant's hostnames (local + prod + any custom domains) directly in its
-  `deploy/httproute.yaml`. The Gateway attaches only the hostnames that match a listener in a
-  given environment, so listing them all is safe everywhere.
+  `deploy/httproute.yaml`, and add every approved hostname to the platform-side
+  Kyverno allow-list in
+  [`restrict-tenant-route-hostnames.yaml`](../k8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-policies/best-practices/restrict-tenant-route-hostnames.yaml).
+  The shared platform Gateway intentionally accepts routes from all namespaces, so the
+  admission policy is the boundary that prevents a tenant artifact from claiming another
+  platform hostname.
+- **A tenant with no rule of its own is denied by default.** Adding the allow-list entry is
+  therefore part of onboarding, not an optional hardening step: until a tenant namespace has
+  a rule naming its approved hostnames, its HTTPRoutes are refused at admission with a
+  message saying exactly that. The alternative — enumerating only some tenants — is
+  fail-open, and `doggy-countdown` ran that way, able to claim any hostname because no rule
+  matched its namespace.
+- **`HTTPRoute` is the only route kind a tenant can use.** The hostname allow-list above
+  matches `HTTPRoute`, so every other Gateway API route kind is closed off rather than left
+  to reach the shared listener unchecked: the tenant role grants only `httproutes` and
+  `referencegrants`, and each Gateway listener pins `allowedRoutes.kinds` to `HTTPRoute`
+  (an HTTPS listener would otherwise accept `GRPCRoute` too). A tenant needing another kind
+  is a platform change, not a tenant one — extend the hostname policy to cover that kind
+  and relax both layers together. CI runs the rendered two-layer route-kind boundary test
+  alongside the canonical Kyverno policy fixtures, so neither half can widen silently.
 - The platform's `homepage` app discovers `gethomepage.dev/*` annotations on the tenant's
   HTTPRoute cluster-wide, so the tenant authors them in its own artifact — they are tenant
   self-presentation, not platform config.
diff --git a/k8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-roles/gateway-tenant-edit.yaml b/k8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-roles/gateway-tenant-edit.yaml
index cbf577aed..dbf17d842 100644
--- a/k8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-roles/gateway-tenant-edit.yaml
+++ b/k8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-roles/gateway-tenant-edit.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,22 @@
 # Aggregate ClusterRole that extends the tenant role (`tenant-edit`) with
-# Gateway API verbs so a tenant ServiceAccount can manage HTTPRoute /
-# ReferenceGrant resources in its namespace without broadening the built-in
-# `edit` role for every namespace.
+# Gateway API verbs so a tenant ServiceAccount can manage
+# HTTPRoute / ReferenceGrant resources in its namespace.
+#
+# HTTPRoute is the ONLY route kind granted, and that is a security boundary
+# rather than a convenience. `restrict-tenant-route-hostnames` confines a
+# tenant to its approved hostnames by matching `HTTPRoute`, so any other route
+# kind a tenant could create would reach the shared hostname-less listener
+# without that policy ever running — a compromised tenant artifact could then
+# claim another service's hostname under the wildcard Gateway certificate.
+# Granting `grpcroutes` here previously left exactly that gap open, because an
+# HTTPS listener accepts GRPCRoute as well as HTTPRoute by default.
+#
+# The Gateway listeners pin `allowedRoutes.kinds` to HTTPRoute as the second
+# layer, so a route created by some other principal still cannot attach. If a
+# route kind is ever genuinely needed, extend the hostname policy to cover it
+# and relax BOTH layers together — never this one alone.
+# This role deliberately carries only the tenant-specific aggregation label;
+# ordinary built-in `edit` bindings must not inherit Gateway API route verbs.
 ---
 apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
 kind: ClusterRole
@@ -13,10 +28,6 @@ rules:
   - apiGroups: ["gateway.networking.k8s.io"]
     resources:
       - httproutes
-      - grpcroutes
-      - tcproutes
-      - tlsroutes
-      - udproutes
       - referencegrants
     verbs:
       - get
diff --git a/k8s/bases/infrastructure/gateway/gateway.yaml b/k8s/bases/infrastructure/gateway/gateway.yaml
index f9cde6485..7399e9f7b 100644
--- a/k8s/bases/infrastructure/gateway/gateway.yaml
+++ b/k8s/bases/infrastructure/gateway/gateway.yaml
@@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ metadata:
 spec:
   gatewayClassName: cilium
   listeners:
+    # Every listener pins `allowedRoutes.kinds` to HTTPRoute. Left unset, an
+    # HTTPS listener accepts GRPCRoute as well (Gateway API's documented
+    # default), and `restrict-tenant-route-hostnames` matches HTTPRoute
+    # only — so a GRPCRoute could claim another service's hostname on this
+    # shared, hostname-less listener without the hostname policy ever running.
+    # The tenant RBAC (`cluster-roles/gateway-tenant-edit.yaml`) grants only
+    # HTTPRoute for the same reason; this is the second layer, covering routes
+    # created by any other principal. Relax both together or neither.
     - name: https
       port: 443
       protocol: HTTPS
@@ -16,9 +24,15 @@ spec:
       allowedRoutes:
         namespaces:
           from: All
+        kinds:
+          - group: gateway.networking.k8s.io
+            kind: HTTPRoute
     - name: http
       port: 80
       protocol: HTTP
       allowedRoutes:
         namespaces:
           from: All
+        kinds:
+          - group: gateway.networking.k8s.io
+            kind: HTTPRoute
diff --git a/k8s/providers/hetzner/infrastructure/patches/add-ascoachingogvaner-dk-listeners.yaml b/k8s/providers/hetzner/infrastructure/patches/add-ascoachingogvaner-dk-listeners.yaml
index c232cb25b..ad7ee1188 100644
--- a/k8s/providers/hetzner/infrastructure/patches/add-ascoachingogvaner-dk-listeners.yaml
+++ b/k8s/providers/hetzner/infrastructure/patches/add-ascoachingogvaner-dk-listeners.yaml
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@
 # Certificate), and the tenant ships a ReferenceGrant authorising this Gateway to
 # read that Secret. Until the cert issues the listener simply stays
 # ResolvedRefs=False (Gateway still Programmed) — it never gates reconciliation.
+#
+# Both listeners pin `allowedRoutes.kinds` to HTTPRoute, matching the base
+# Gateway's listeners — see k8s/bases/infrastructure/gateway/gateway.yaml for
+# why an unpinned HTTPS listener is a hostname-claiming gap.
 - op: add
   path: /spec/listeners/-
   value:
@@ -28,6 +32,9 @@
     allowedRoutes:
       namespaces:
         from: All
+      kinds:
+        - group: gateway.networking.k8s.io
+          kind: HTTPRoute
 - op: add
   path: /spec/listeners/-
   value:
@@ -45,3 +52,6 @@
     allowedRoutes:
       namespaces:
         from: All
+      kinds:
+        - group: gateway.networking.k8s.io
+          kind: HTTPRoute
diff --git a/scripts/tests/test-tenant-route-hostname-boundary.sh b/scripts/tests/test-tenant-route-hostname-boundary.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..7711e78f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/tests/test-tenant-route-hostname-boundary.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Negative coverage for the tenant hostname boundary on the shared Gateway.
+#
+# The boundary is enforced by `restrict-tenant-route-hostnames`, which
+# matches HTTPRoute. That leaves a gap unless the other route kinds cannot reach
+# the shared listener at all: an HTTPS listener accepts GRPCRoute as well as
+# HTTPRoute by default, so a tenant able to create a GRPCRoute could claim
+# another service's hostname under the wildcard certificate without the policy
+# ever running.
+#
+# Two layers close it, and this test pins BOTH — either alone is bypassable:
+#   1. tenant RBAC grants only `httproutes` (+ `referencegrants`);
+#   2. every Gateway listener pins `allowedRoutes.kinds` to HTTPRoute, covering
+#      routes created by any other principal.
+# The policy's allow-list and default-deny behavior have their own real Kyverno
+# fixtures under tests/restrict-tenant-route-hostnames; this test owns the
+# separate route-kind boundary those fixtures cannot exercise.
+set -euo pipefail
+
+script_dir="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
+repo_root="$(cd "${script_dir}/../.." && pwd)"
+
+role_file="${repo_root}/k8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-roles/gateway-tenant-edit.yaml"
+# The prod overlay is what carries every listener: two come from the base
+# Gateway and two more are appended by the hetzner JSON6902 patch, which a
+# per-file check would never see.
+overlay="${repo_root}/k8s/providers/hetzner/infrastructure"
+
+workdir="$(mktemp -d)"
+trap 'rm -rf "${workdir}"' EXIT
+render="${workdir}/render.yaml"
+gateway="${workdir}/gateway.yaml"
+
+fail() {
+  echo "::error::$1"
+  exit 1
+}
+
+# --- Layer 1: tenant RBAC grants only HTTPRoute -----------------------------
+# Positive control first: a typo'd path or a renamed role would otherwise make
+# every assertion below pass over an empty document set.
+role_name="$(yq eval 'select(.kind=="ClusterRole") | .metadata.name' "${role_file}")"
+[ "${role_name}" = "gateway-tenant-edit" ] ||
+  fail "expected ClusterRole gateway-tenant-edit in ${role_file}, found '${role_name}'"
+
+granted="$(yq eval \
+  'select(.kind=="ClusterRole") | .rules[] | select(.apiGroups[] == "gateway.networking.k8s.io") | .resources[]' \
+  "${role_file}" | sort | tr '\n' ' ')"
+[ -n "${granted// /}" ] ||
+  fail "gateway-tenant-edit grants no gateway.networking.k8s.io resources at all — the rule shape changed, so this test is no longer checking anything"
+
+expected_grant="httproutes referencegrants "
+[ "${granted}" = "${expected_grant}" ] ||
+  fail "gateway-tenant-edit must grant exactly 'httproutes referencegrants'; found '${granted}'. Any other route kind bypasses restrict-tenant-route-hostnames — extend that policy and the listener kinds before widening this."
+
+# --- Layer 2: every listener pins allowedRoutes.kinds to HTTPRoute ----------
+kubectl kustomize "${overlay}" >"${render}" 2>"${workdir}/render.err" ||
+  fail "prod infrastructure overlay failed to build: $(tail -5 "${workdir}/render.err")"
+
+yq eval 'select(.kind=="Gateway" and .metadata.name=="platform")' "${render}" >"${gateway}"
+listener_count="$(yq eval '.spec.listeners | length' "${gateway}")"
+# The live Gateway had 4 listeners when this boundary was written. Requiring at
+# least that many keeps an empty or mis-selected render from passing vacuously —
+# adding a listener is fine, silently losing them all is not.
+case "${listener_count}" in
+  '' | null | 0) fail "no Gateway/platform listeners found in the rendered overlay — the render or the selector changed, so this test is checking nothing" ;;
+esac
+[ "${listener_count}" -ge 4 ] ||
+  fail "expected at least 4 Gateway listeners in the prod overlay, found ${listener_count} — did the ascoachingogvaner listener patch stop applying?"
+
+# Compare the kinds as a JOINED STRING, never as an array. yq's `!=` does not
+# do deep array equality — `(… | sort) != ["HTTPRoute"]` evaluates to true even
+# for a correctly pinned listener, which reported all four as unpinned when this
+# test was written. It failed closed there, but the same shape fails OPEN when
+# the sense is reversed, so keep the comparison on strings.
+unpinned="$(yq eval \
+  '[.spec.listeners[] | select(((.allowedRoutes.kinds // []) | map(.kind) | sort | join(",")) != "HTTPRoute")] | .[].name' \
+  "${gateway}" | tr '\n' ' ')"
+[ -z "${unpinned// /}" ] ||
+  fail "these Gateway listeners do not pin allowedRoutes.kinds to exactly [HTTPRoute]: ${unpinned}— an unpinned HTTPS listener also accepts GRPCRoute, which restrict-tenant-route-hostnames does not match."
+
+echo "Tenant route-kind boundary holds: RBAC grants HTTPRoute only and all ${listener_count} listeners pin kinds to HTTPRoute."
diff --git a/scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/main.go b/scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/main.go
index 7d8afe437..39c3293ca 100644
--- a/scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/main.go
+++ b/scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/main.go
@@ -622,6 +622,25 @@ const (
 // every surviving selected object; #2741 removes only the already-protected
 // Headlamp PVC identity and retains the authorization-neutral changes above.
 //
+// Measured for #2713 merged with exact main 6ebcb24f. Two independent renderers
+// agree on this value: the required CI job on the approved toolchain (run
+// 31974280947) and a local render. The branch's own earlier value was rendered
+// against main 6d926e42 and never described this merge result.
+//
+// The reviewed reasoning for the change itself is unaffected by the merge. The
+// complete authorization delta changes exactly ONE selected entry:
+//
+//	rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1  ClusterRole  gateway-tenant-edit
+//
+// Its resources are narrowed from httproutes, grpcroutes, tcproutes, tlsroutes,
+// udproutes and referencegrants to httproutes and referencegrants. The removed
+// four route kinds bypass the HTTPRoute-only tenant hostname policy on the
+// shared Gateway. Identity, labels, verbs, apiGroups, bindings and membership
+// are otherwise byte-identical, so this is a strict privilege reduction. Main
+// already carries the canonical restrict-tenant-route-hostnames policy and the
+// removal of built-in edit aggregation; neither is duplicated by this change.
+// Gateway listener-kind pins are outside this authorization projection and are
+// covered by scripts/tests/test-tenant-route-hostname-boundary.sh.
 // Measured for the #2725 Umami provisioning repair merged with exact main
 // 6ebcb24f. Two independent renderers agree on this value: the required CI job
 // on the approved toolchain (run 31973534571) and a local render.
@@ -646,6 +665,37 @@ const (
 // withholds from every other consumer. The apps Flux Kustomization timeout moves
 // from 20m to 30m in both rendered cluster overlays. The ServiceAccount itself is
 // unchanged from main in canonical content.
+//
+// Re-approved after merging main into this branch. Both parents measured against
+// the same exact main 6ebcb24f, but each described only its own delta — this
+// branch the gateway-tenant-edit route-kind narrowing, main the #2725 Umami
+// provisioning grant — so neither value describes the merge result, and the
+// conflict could not be resolved by picking a side. Both records above are
+// retained because both deltas are present in the merged surface: a strict
+// privilege reduction on one selected ClusterRole, and the Lease-scoped Umami
+// provisioning grant. They are independent and neither cancels the other, so the
+// grant-bearing accounting recorded for each carries over unchanged and only the
+// whole-surface digest moves.
+//
+// Measured against the merge result at c790f999. Two independent renderers agree
+// on the value below: the required `🔐 Validate EKS Authorization` job (run
+// 32019353067) and a local render on kubectl v1.36.1 / kustomize v5.8.1.
+//
+// Conservation behind the new digest: the whole-surface fingerprint is the ONLY
+// control that moved. Both renderers report zero per-identity mismatches and
+// zero missing resources against expectedRenderedHashes, so every individually
+// approved entry — including both parents' deltas — is byte-identical to its
+// recorded value and only the aggregate over the entry set changed. Both also
+// report the same 35 unresolved-substitution notes, which are diagnostic rather
+// than a control: a resource carrying `${…}` is forced into the aggregate, so
+// its literal text is already covered by this digest.
+//
+// That symmetry corrects the assumption recorded before the measurement, which
+// held that a local render could not approve this because it would be incomplete
+// without the CI substitution inputs. The approved toolchain reports the same 35
+// notes and the same digest, so the two renders are equivalent here and the
+// local one is a genuine second renderer rather than a degraded copy.
+//
 // Re-approved after merging main d925654e into this branch. Both parents had
 // re-approved this constant independently — main for the #2725 Umami
 // provisioning grant recorded directly above, and this branch for the crossview
@@ -675,7 +725,43 @@ const (
 // surface, which is consistent with its content — documentation plus a Kyverno
 // policy description annotation, carrying no grant. That is evidence about
 // what did NOT change; it is not a second rendering of what did.
-const expectedRenderedSurfaceSHA = "88667d39d19c923b0b84e3c0b4c548409a3990f360dfe9ddad22778eefdda328"
+//
+// Re-approved after merging main b9af3892 into this branch, whose own parent is
+// 90cf208e. Both parents had re-approved this constant independently — this
+// branch for the gateway-tenant-edit route-kind narrowing recorded above, and
+// main for the crossview reload annotation recorded directly above — so neither
+// parent's value describes the merge result and the conflict could not be
+// resolved by picking a side. The merged surface is main's b9af3892 surface with
+// this branch's single authorization delta applied on top: the strict privilege
+// reduction on ClusterRole gateway-tenant-edit already described above. Main's
+// grant-bearing accounting for the #2725 Umami provisioning repair reached this
+// branch through the earlier merge and is unchanged by this one, so only the
+// whole-surface digest moves.
+//
+// Two independent renderers agree on the value below, and each was first proved
+// against clean main b9af3892 as a matched control:
+//
+//   - the approved toolchain (checksum-verified kubectl v1.36.2 / Kustomize
+//     v5.8.1) running this validator, which reports the contract passing on
+//     clean main and this digest on the merge result;
+//   - a local render on kubectl v1.36.1 / Kustomize v5.8.1 through
+//     TestValidateAuthorizationAcceptsCommittedPolicy, which passes on clean
+//     main and reports this same digest on the merge result.
+//
+// The matched controls are what make the measurement trustworthy rather than a
+// guess: both renderers reproduce every already-approved digest in main, so the
+// one value they disagree with main about is the one this merge actually moved.
+//
+// Conservation behind the new digest: the whole-surface fingerprint is the ONLY
+// control that moved. The run reports exactly one problem — this aggregate — and
+// zero per-identity mismatches and zero missing resources against
+// expectedRenderedHashes, so every individually approved entry is byte-identical
+// to its recorded value. It also reports the same 35 unresolved-substitution
+// notes that clean main reports; those are diagnostic rather than a control,
+// emitted only alongside an aggregate mismatch to explain a hash that moved, and
+// a resource carrying `${…}` is forced into the aggregate so its literal text is
+// already covered by this digest.
+const expectedRenderedSurfaceSHA = "b5b394181a8f2bc325bd427a90990fbc3872fb1f41f3d938f1e28f0aac1075f4"
 
 // authorizationOverlayPaths lists every independently reconciled production
 // layer where an object can grant privileges to the aws/aws service account.