diff --git a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Host/Configuration/ScriptingOptionsBinding.cs b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Host/Configuration/ScriptingOptionsBinding.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1155748b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Host/Configuration/ScriptingOptionsBinding.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Core.Scripting;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Host.Configuration;
+
+/// <summary>
+///     Binds the node-wide <c>Scripting</c> section into <see cref="ScriptingOptions"/> and clamps it
+///     (<see cref="ScriptingOptions.Sanitized"/>). One place, so <c>Program.cs</c> and its unit test bind the same
+///     way and a misspelled key cannot silently fall back to the compiled defaults unnoticed.
+/// </summary>
+public static class ScriptingOptionsBinding
+{
+    /// <summary>Binds and clamps the <c>Scripting</c> section.</summary>
+    /// <param name="configuration">The host configuration.</param>
+    /// <param name="adjustments">One line per clamped value, for the caller to log as a Warning.</param>
+    /// <returns>The clamped options; the compiled defaults when the section is absent.</returns>
+    public static ScriptingOptions Bind(IConfiguration configuration, out IReadOnlyList<string> adjustments)
+    {
+        ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(configuration);
+        var bound = configuration.GetSection(ScriptingOptions.SectionName).Get<ScriptingOptions>() ?? new ScriptingOptions();
+        return bound.Sanitized(out adjustments);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Host/Program.cs b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Host/Program.cs
index 70ecc606..c3c105ab 100644
--- a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Host/Program.cs
+++ b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Host/Program.cs
@@ -370,8 +370,8 @@ if (hasDriver)
     // Warning rather than an OverflowException inside a script run. The one instance is shared by every script
     // seam on the node: the virtual-tag evaluator below, the scripted-alarm engine (DriverHostActor, via
     // WithOtOpcUaRuntimeActors) and every Calculation driver (DriverFactoryBootstrap).
-    var scriptingOptions = (builder.Configuration.GetSection(ScriptingOptions.SectionName).Get<ScriptingOptions>()
-        ?? new ScriptingOptions()).Sanitized(out var scriptingAdjustments);
+    var scriptingOptions = ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Host.Configuration.ScriptingOptionsBinding.Bind(
+        builder.Configuration, out var scriptingAdjustments);
     foreach (var adjustment in scriptingAdjustments)
         Log.Warning("Scripting misconfiguration detected at startup: {Adjustment}", adjustment);
     builder.Services.AddSingleton(scriptingOptions);
diff --git a/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Host.Tests/Configuration/ScriptingOptionsBindingTests.cs b/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Host.Tests/Configuration/ScriptingOptionsBindingTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f717d6c5
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+++ b/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Host.Tests/Configuration/ScriptingOptionsBindingTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
+using Shouldly;
+using Xunit;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Core.Scripting;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Host.Configuration;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Host.Tests.Configuration;
+
+/// <summary>
+///     Review m-1: the <c>Scripting</c> section binds by the documented key names and is clamped at bind. Each
+///     configured value differs from the compiled default, so a misspelled key (which the binder would silently
+///     ignore, falling back to the default) goes red.
+/// </summary>
+public sealed class ScriptingOptionsBindingTests
+{
+    private static IConfiguration Config(Dictionary<string, string?> values) =>
+        new ConfigurationBuilder().AddInMemoryCollection(values).Build();
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Every_documented_key_binds_to_its_property()
+    {
+        var bound = ScriptingOptionsBinding.Bind(Config(new()
+        {
+            ["Scripting:MaxAllocBytesPerRun"] = "8388608",
+            ["Scripting:QuarantineAfterConsecutiveTimeouts"] = "7",
+            ["Scripting:StuckOrphanQuarantineFactor"] = "4.5",
+            // Sibling keys owned by the script-log pipeline must not disturb the bind.
+            ["Scripting:LogFilePath"] = "logs/x-.log",
+            ["Scripting:LogTopicMinLevel"] = "Warning",
+        }), out var adjustments);
+
+        adjustments.ShouldBeEmpty();
+        bound.MaxAllocBytesPerRun.ShouldBe(8L * 1024 * 1024);
+        bound.QuarantineAfterConsecutiveTimeouts.ShouldBe(7);
+        bound.StuckOrphanQuarantineFactor.ShouldBe(4.5);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Out_of_range_values_are_clamped_at_bind_and_reported()
+    {
+        var bound = ScriptingOptionsBinding.Bind(Config(new()
+        {
+            ["Scripting:StuckOrphanQuarantineFactor"] = "1e300",
+            ["Scripting:MaxAllocBytesPerRun"] = "1024",
+            ["Scripting:QuarantineAfterConsecutiveTimeouts"] = "0",
+        }), out var adjustments);
+
+        bound.StuckOrphanQuarantineFactor.ShouldBe(ScriptingOptions.MaxStuckOrphanQuarantineFactor);
+        bound.MaxAllocBytesPerRun.ShouldBe(ScriptingOptions.MinMaxAllocBytesPerRun);
+        bound.QuarantineAfterConsecutiveTimeouts.ShouldBe(1);
+        adjustments.Count.ShouldBe(3);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void An_absent_section_yields_the_compiled_defaults()
+    {
+        var bound = ScriptingOptionsBinding.Bind(Config(new()), out var adjustments);
+
+        adjustments.ShouldBeEmpty();
+        bound.MaxAllocBytesPerRun.ShouldBe(ScriptingOptions.DefaultMaxAllocBytesPerRun);
+        bound.QuarantineAfterConsecutiveTimeouts.ShouldBe(ScriptingOptions.DefaultQuarantineAfterConsecutiveTimeouts);
+        bound.StuckOrphanQuarantineFactor.ShouldBe(ScriptingOptions.DefaultStuckOrphanQuarantineFactor);
+    }
+}