diff --git a/.github/actions/setup-rust/CHANGELOG.md b/.github/actions/setup-rust/CHANGELOG.md
index 7823d44d3..30d6a3d9a 100644
--- a/.github/actions/setup-rust/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/.github/actions/setup-rust/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,16 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+- Set `disable_annotations: true` on both uses of
+  `mozilla-actions/sccache-action`. Its post-job step runs
+  `sccache --show-stats` and fails the job on an error, and after a server
+  fallback that command restarts the dead server, so a second startup timeout
+  could fail a job that had built without the cache. The input switches off the
+  action's whole post report, so its statistics table and notice no longer
+  appear; report statistics with a step guarded on
+  `sccache-status == 'started'`. A contract rejects any sccache-action use
+  without it.
+
 - Raise sccache's server startup timeout to 60 s through an `SCCACHE_CONF`
   config file, merged into any config the caller already names, and make a
   server that will not start fail open. The 10 s default intermittently expired
diff --git a/.github/actions/setup-rust/README.md b/.github/actions/setup-rust/README.md
index 3af1bd5b5..66930ad16 100644
--- a/.github/actions/setup-rust/README.md
+++ b/.github/actions/setup-rust/README.md
@@ -291,6 +291,15 @@ annotation titled `sccache-fallback`, the line
 `sccache-status=fallback` as an output (`started` otherwise). The annotation
 title is a contract that estate-wide detectors match on; it never changes.
 
+The sccache action's own end-of-job statistics table and notice are switched off
+(`disable_annotations: true` on both of its uses, held by a contract). Despite
+its name the input disables the action's whole post-job report, which runs
+`sccache --show-stats` and fails the job if that errors. After a fallback the
+server is dead and `--show-stats` restarts it, so a second startup timeout
+would turn a lost cache into a red job. Report statistics yourself with a step
+guarded on `sccache-status == 'started'` (the output is empty when no server
+was started), or with the `sccache-report` action once it is available.
+
 Some exports have to be put back rather than made. The last thing
 `mozilla-actions/sccache-action` does is write `ACTIONS_CACHE_SERVICE_V2=on` to
 `GITHUB_ENV`, along with the runner's own `ACTIONS_RESULTS_URL` and
diff --git a/.github/actions/setup-rust/action.yml b/.github/actions/setup-rust/action.yml
index 79faeec8e..7374b15e7 100644
--- a/.github/actions/setup-rust/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/setup-rust/action.yml
@@ -810,11 +810,20 @@ runs:
         record ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN runtime_token secret
 
     # x86_64-apple-darwin binaries were dropped after sccache v0.12.0
+    # `disable_annotations: true` on EVERY sccache-action use, which a contract
+    # enforces. Despite its name the input switches off the action's whole
+    # post-job report, not only annotations. That report runs
+    # `sccache --show-stats` and fails the job when it errors; after the server
+    # fallback below the server is dead, `--show-stats` restarts it, and a
+    # second timeout would turn a lost cache into a red job. Statistics are
+    # the caller's to report, with a step guarded on
+    # `sccache-status == 'started'`.
     - name: Run sccache (x86_64 macOS)
       if: ${{ inputs.use-sccache == 'true' && github.event_name != 'release' && runner.os == 'macOS' && runner.arch == 'X64' }}
       uses: mozilla-actions/sccache-action@fc920bf0ec8de6ee65d409111f7ec508035751ba
       with:
         version: v0.12.0
+        disable_annotations: true
     - name: Run sccache
       # Pinned, like its x86_64 macOS sibling. Left unset, the action asks the
       # GitHub API for the latest release on every job: a floating dependency
@@ -829,6 +838,7 @@ runs:
       uses: mozilla-actions/sccache-action@fc920bf0ec8de6ee65d409111f7ec508035751ba
       with:
         version: v0.17.0
+        disable_annotations: true
     - name: Restore the caller's cache service selection
       # AFTER both sccache-action steps and BEFORE anything starts a server,
       # deliberately. Undoes what those steps wrote to GITHUB_ENV, so a caller
diff --git a/.github/actions/tests/test_sccache_action_post_report.py b/.github/actions/tests/test_sccache_action_post_report.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e9182b706
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/actions/tests/test_sccache_action_post_report.py
@@ -0,0 +1,163 @@
+"""Contract: every ``mozilla-actions/sccache-action`` use disables its post report.
+
+The sccache action registers a post-job step that runs ``sccache --show-stats``
+and fails the job when that errors. After a sccache server fallback the server
+is dead and ``--show-stats`` restarts it, so a second startup timeout turns a
+lost compiler cache into a red job, which is the failure the fail-open start
+exists to prevent. The only switch is the ``disable_annotations`` input, and
+despite its name it returns before any statistics call. Statistics are reported
+by the caller, with a step guarded on ``sccache-status``.
+
+The scan covers every composite action manifest and workflow in the
+repository, not only ``setup-rust``, so a new use anywhere cannot reintroduce
+the post step. A step whose value is anything but a literal true does not
+count: ``false`` and an expression a caller could set to false would both leave
+the report on.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import typing as typ
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+import yaml
+
+GITHUB_ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2]
+#: Compared after lower-casing: GitHub reads a repository owner and name
+#: case-insensitively, so `Mozilla-Actions/sccache-action@` is the same action.
+SCCACHE_ACTION_PREFIX = "mozilla-actions/sccache-action@"
+INPUT = "disable_annotations"
+
+
+def _children(node: object) -> list[object]:
+    """Return the values and items directly below a mapping or sequence node."""
+    if isinstance(node, dict):
+        return list(node.values())
+    return list(node) if isinstance(node, list) else []
+
+
+def _step_lists(node: object) -> typ.Iterator[list[object]]:
+    """Yield every ``steps`` list in a parsed workflow or action manifest."""
+    if isinstance(node, dict) and isinstance(node.get("steps"), list):
+        yield node["steps"]
+    for child in _children(node):
+        yield from _step_lists(child)
+
+
+def sccache_action_uses(document: object) -> list[dict[str, object]]:
+    """Return every step in ``document`` that runs the sccache action."""
+    return [
+        step
+        for steps in _step_lists(document)
+        for step in steps
+        if isinstance(step, dict)
+        and isinstance(step.get("uses"), str)
+        and str(step["uses"]).lower().startswith(SCCACHE_ACTION_PREFIX)
+    ]
+
+
+def leaves_post_report_on(step: dict[str, object]) -> bool:
+    """Report whether ``step`` fails to switch the post report off."""
+    inputs = step.get("with")
+    value = inputs.get(INPUT) if isinstance(inputs, dict) else None
+    return not (value is True or value == "true")
+
+
+def _manifests() -> list[Path]:
+    """Return every workflow and composite action manifest in the repository."""
+    return sorted(
+        path
+        for pattern in ("*.yml", "*.yaml")
+        for path in GITHUB_ROOT.rglob(pattern)
+        if "node_modules" not in path.parts
+    )
+
+
+def _uses_in_repository() -> list[tuple[Path, dict[str, object]]]:
+    """Return each sccache-action use with the file that declares it."""
+    found: list[tuple[Path, dict[str, object]]] = []
+    for path in _manifests():
+        document = yaml.safe_load(path.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+        found.extend((path, step) for step in sccache_action_uses(document))
+    return found
+
+
+def test_the_repository_still_uses_the_sccache_action() -> None:
+    """A scan over nothing passes whatever it checks, so require some uses.
+
+    ``setup-rust`` runs the action twice, once for the x86_64 macOS pin and
+    once for the rest.
+    """
+    uses = _uses_in_repository()
+    assert len(uses) >= 2, (
+        f"expected setup-rust's two sccache-action uses, found {len(uses)}; "
+        "if the action is gone, retire this contract"
+    )
+
+
+def test_every_sccache_action_use_disables_the_post_report() -> None:
+    """No use may leave the post-job ``--show-stats`` step to fail a fallback."""
+    offenders = [
+        f"{path.relative_to(GITHUB_ROOT)}: {step.get('name', step.get('uses'))}"
+        for path, step in _uses_in_repository()
+        if leaves_post_report_on(step)
+    ]
+    assert not offenders, (
+        f"these sccache-action uses must set {INPUT}: true, otherwise the post "
+        f"step restarts a dead server and can fail the job: {offenders}"
+    )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("with_block", "expected"),
+    [
+        ({"version": "v0.17.0"}, True),
+        ({INPUT: False}, True),
+        ({INPUT: "false"}, True),
+        ({INPUT: "${{ inputs.quiet }}"}, True),
+        (None, True),
+        ({INPUT: True}, False),
+        ({INPUT: "true"}, False),
+    ],
+)
+def test_only_a_literal_true_counts_as_disabled(
+    with_block: dict[str, object] | None, *, expected: bool
+) -> None:
+    """False, a missing block and an expression all leave the report on."""
+    step: dict[str, object] = {"uses": f"{SCCACHE_ACTION_PREFIX}abc"}
+    if with_block is not None:
+        step["with"] = with_block
+    assert leaves_post_report_on(step) is expected
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "uses",
+    [
+        "Mozilla-Actions/sccache-action@abc",
+        "MOZILLA-ACTIONS/SCCACHE-ACTION@abc",
+    ],
+)
+def test_a_case_variant_of_the_action_name_is_still_scanned(uses: str) -> None:
+    """GitHub resolves the owner and name case-insensitively, so must the scan."""
+    document = {"jobs": {"build": {"steps": [{"uses": uses}]}}}
+    uses_found = sccache_action_uses(document)
+    assert len(uses_found) == 1, f"{uses!r} escaped the scan"
+    assert leaves_post_report_on(uses_found[0])
+
+
+def test_a_new_use_without_the_input_is_found_in_a_workflow() -> None:
+    """The scan reads workflow jobs as well as composite action manifests."""
+    document = yaml.safe_load(
+        "jobs:\n"
+        "  build:\n"
+        "    runs-on: ubuntu-latest\n"
+        "    steps:\n"
+        "      - uses: mozilla-actions/sccache-action@abc\n"
+        "      - uses: mozilla-actions/sccache-action@abc\n"
+        "        with:\n"
+        "          disable_annotations: true\n"
+    )
+    uses = sccache_action_uses(document)
+    assert len(uses) == 2
+    assert [leaves_post_report_on(step) for step in uses] == [True, False]
diff --git a/docs/developers-guide.md b/docs/developers-guide.md
index a703e9922..66910b911 100644
--- a/docs/developers-guide.md
+++ b/docs/developers-guide.md
@@ -362,6 +362,20 @@ not from `RUSTC_WRAPPER`: an inherited wrapper may name this very binary, and
 stopping the server behind it would discard the statistics of everything
 compiled so far in the job.
 
+The nested `mozilla-actions/sccache-action` registers a post-job step that runs
+`sccache --show-stats` and calls `setFailed` on an error. After a fallback that
+command restarts the dead server, so it could fail a job whose build had
+already succeeded without the cache. Its only switch is the
+`disable_annotations` input, which despite the name returns before any
+statistics call, so both uses in `setup-rust` set it to `true`. The cost is
+that the action's own table and notice are gone, which is why consumers report
+statistics themselves, guarded on `sccache-status == 'started'`.
+`.github/actions/tests/test_sccache_action_post_report.py` scans every workflow
+and action manifest in the repository and fails for any use that lacks a literal
+`true`, including one added somewhere other than `setup-rust`; mutation proof
+covers removing it from either use, setting it `false`, adding an unprotected
+use elsewhere, and renaming the action out from under the scan.
+
 The manifest tests hold the whole chain: selection, record, sccache steps,
 restore, wrapper export, start. `GITHUB_ENV` reaches only the next step, so no
 two of these can be merged.
diff --git a/docs/users-guide.md b/docs/users-guide.md
index e829ae682..f65443ecc 100644
--- a/docs/users-guide.md
+++ b/docs/users-guide.md
@@ -143,6 +143,16 @@ existing callers need do nothing. A caller that itself runs
 `fallback`, since asking a server that never started would try to start it
 again.
 
+The sccache action's own end-of-job statistics table and notice are no longer
+produced: `setup-rust` sets `disable_annotations: true` on both of its uses of
+the action. Despite its name that input disables the whole post-job report,
+which runs `sccache --show-stats` and fails the job if it errors. After a
+fallback the server is dead and `--show-stats` restarts it, so a second startup
+timeout would turn a lost cache into a red job. To keep the table, report it
+from a step guarded on `sccache-status == 'started'`, which is empty when no
+server was started and `fallback` after a failed start, or use the
+`sccache-report` action once it is available.
+
 Some exports have to be put back rather than made, and that is the reason
 `use-sccache: 'true'` used to be unusable on Ubicloud. The last thing
 `mozilla-actions/sccache-action` does is write `ACTIONS_CACHE_SERVICE_V2=on` to