diff --git a/ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets/src/ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets.Cli/Interactive/Flows/ReferenceAuditFlow.cs b/ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets/src/ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets.Cli/Interactive/Flows/ReferenceAuditFlow.cs
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+using System.Globalization;
+using Spectre.Console;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets.Abstractions;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets.Cli.Interactive.Flows;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// The deployment-setup flow: audits every <c>${secret:NAME}</c> reference in the target app's composed
+/// configuration, renders a colour-coded status table, then walks the operator through seeding each gap so
+/// the app can start. For every reference that is not already resolvable — and that <em>can</em> be seeded
+/// (<see cref="ReferenceStatus.Missing"/>, <see cref="ReferenceStatus.Tombstoned"/>, or
+/// <see cref="ReferenceStatus.Undecryptable"/>) — the operator is offered a masked value prompt and the
+/// new secret is sealed under a fresh per-secret DEK via the session cipher. Seeding a
+/// <see cref="ReferenceStatus.Tombstoned"/> reference revives it: the store's
+/// <see cref="ISecretStore.UpsertAsync"/> overwrites the row in place and clears its tombstone. Seeding an
+/// <see cref="ReferenceStatus.Undecryptable"/> reference overwrites the unreadable row with a fresh value
+/// (the confirm text says so). An <see cref="ReferenceStatus.InvalidName"/> reference cannot be looked up
+/// or seeded, so it renders a fix-the-token hint instead of a prompt;
+/// <see cref="ReferenceStatus.PresentUnverified"/> only occurs on a degraded session and is unreachable
+/// here (the flow requires a KEK). A closing re-audit prints a one-line count-by-status summary. Requires a
+/// KEK-capable session (the shell upgrades a degraded session before dispatch); typed values are masked and
+/// never echoed.
+/// </summary>
+public sealed class ReferenceAuditFlow : IInteractiveFlow
+{
+    /// <inheritdoc />
+    public string Title => "Reference audit & seed";
+
+    /// <inheritdoc />
+    public bool RequiresKek => true;
+
+    /// <inheritdoc />
+    public async Task RunAsync(IAnsiConsole console, SecretsSession session, CancellationToken ct)
+    {
+        ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(console);
+        ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(session);
+
+        var auditor = new ReferenceAuditor();
+        IReadOnlyList<ReferenceFinding> findings = await auditor.AuditAsync(session, ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
+        if (findings.Count == 0)
+        {
+            console.MarkupLine("[grey]No ${secret:} references found in the target configuration.[/]");
+            return;
+        }
+
+        RenderTable(console, findings);
+
+        foreach (ReferenceFinding finding in findings)
+        {
+            if (finding.Status == ReferenceStatus.InvalidName)
+            {
+                console.MarkupLineInterpolated(
+                    $"[red]'{finding.SecretName}'[/] is not a valid secret name — fix the ${{secret:…}} token in the config; it cannot be seeded.");
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            if (!IsSeedable(finding.Status))
+            {
+                continue; // Ok (nothing to do) or PresentUnverified (unreachable on a KEK-capable session).
+            }
+
+            string escapedName = Markup.Escape(finding.SecretName);
+            string question = finding.Status == ReferenceStatus.Undecryptable
+                ? $"'{escapedName}' exists but does not decrypt — overwrite with a fresh value now?"
+                : $"Seed '{escapedName}' now?";
+
+            if (!console.Prompt(new ConfirmationPrompt(question)
+            {
+                DefaultValue = finding.Status != ReferenceStatus.Undecryptable,
+            }))
+            {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            await SeedAsync(console, session, new SecretName(finding.SecretName), ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
+            console.MarkupLineInterpolated($"[green]Sealed '{finding.SecretName}'.[/]");
+        }
+
+        IReadOnlyList<ReferenceFinding> after = await auditor.AuditAsync(session, ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
+        console.MarkupLineInterpolated($"Audit complete: {Summarize(after)}.");
+    }
+
+    // Seedable ⇔ a valid, non-resolvable reference we can fill: absent, tombstoned, or present-but-unreadable.
+    // Ok needs nothing; InvalidName cannot be looked up; PresentUnverified only occurs on a degraded session.
+    private static bool IsSeedable(ReferenceStatus status) =>
+        status is ReferenceStatus.Missing or ReferenceStatus.Tombstoned or ReferenceStatus.Undecryptable;
+
+    // Prompts for a masked value + content type + optional description and seals the secret under a fresh
+    // per-secret DEK. Mirrors SetSecretFlow's seal-and-stamp shape without coupling to it.
+    private static async Task SeedAsync(
+        IAnsiConsole console, SecretsSession session, SecretName name, CancellationToken ct)
+    {
+        string value = console.Prompt(
+            new TextPrompt<string>($"  Value for [green]{Markup.Escape(name.Value)}[/]:").Secret());
+        SecretContentType contentType = console.Prompt(
+            new SelectionPrompt<SecretContentType>().Title("  Content type").AddChoices(Enum.GetValues<SecretContentType>()));
+        string description = console.Prompt(
+            new TextPrompt<string>("  Description [grey](optional)[/]:").AllowEmpty());
+
+        string actor = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(Environment.UserName) ? "cli" : Environment.UserName;
+        StoredSecret row = session.Cipher!.Encrypt(name, value, contentType) with
+        {
+            Description = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(description) ? null : description,
+            CreatedBy = actor,
+            UpdatedBy = actor,
+        };
+        await session.Store.UpsertAsync(row, ct).ConfigureAwait(false); // revives a tombstone: overwrite clears IsDeleted.
+    }
+
+    // A colour-coded audit table: green Ok, yellow PresentUnverified, red for every unresolvable status.
+    private static void RenderTable(IAnsiConsole console, IReadOnlyList<ReferenceFinding> findings)
+    {
+        var table = new Table()
+            .AddColumn("Secret")
+            .AddColumn("Status")
+            .AddColumn("Config paths");
+
+        foreach (ReferenceFinding finding in findings)
+        {
+            table.AddRow(
+                Markup.Escape(finding.SecretName),
+                $"[{StatusColor(finding.Status)}]{finding.Status}[/]",
+                Markup.Escape(string.Join(Environment.NewLine, finding.ConfigPaths)));
+        }
+
+        console.Write(table);
+    }
+
+    private static string StatusColor(ReferenceStatus status) => status switch
+    {
+        ReferenceStatus.Ok => "green",
+        ReferenceStatus.PresentUnverified => "yellow",
+        _ => "red", // Missing / Tombstoned / Undecryptable / InvalidName
+    };
+
+    // A deterministic "N Status" count-by-status roll-up, ordered by the status enum.
+    private static string Summarize(IReadOnlyList<ReferenceFinding> findings) =>
+        string.Join(", ", findings
+            .GroupBy(f => f.Status)
+            .OrderBy(g => g.Key)
+            .Select(g => string.Create(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, $"{g.Count()} {g.Key}")));
+}
diff --git a/ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets.Tests/Cli/Interactive/Flows/ReferenceAuditFlowTests.cs b/ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets.Tests/Cli/Interactive/Flows/ReferenceAuditFlowTests.cs
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+using System.Security.Cryptography;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
+using Spectre.Console;
+using Spectre.Console.Testing;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets.Abstractions;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets.Cli.Interactive;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets.Cli.Interactive.Flows;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets.MasterKey;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets.Tests.Cli.Interactive.Flows;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Drives the deployment-setup <see cref="ReferenceAuditFlow"/> against a real temp-SQLite full session
+/// whose <see cref="StoreTarget.Configuration"/> references three <c>${secret:NAME}</c> tokens — one
+/// seeded (Ok), one absent (Missing), and one tombstoned. Each flow renders to a scripted
+/// <see cref="TestConsole"/>, so the tests assert both the rendered <see cref="TestConsole.Output"/> and
+/// the resulting store state. The invariant under test is that the operator can fill every startup gap
+/// from one screen without any typed secret value ever reaching the terminal.
+/// </summary>
+public sealed class ReferenceAuditFlowTests : IDisposable
+{
+    private readonly string _dir =
+        Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), $"zb-secrets-refaudit-{Guid.NewGuid():N}");
+
+    private string DbPath => Path.Combine(_dir, "secrets.db");
+
+    public ReferenceAuditFlowTests() => Directory.CreateDirectory(_dir);
+
+    public void Dispose()
+    {
+        if (Directory.Exists(_dir))
+        {
+            try { Directory.Delete(_dir, recursive: true); } catch (IOException) { /* best-effort temp cleanup */ }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static TestConsole NewConsole()
+    {
+        var console = (TestConsole)new TestConsole().Interactive();
+        console.Profile.Width = 240; // wide enough that the status table never truncates a cell
+        return console;
+    }
+
+    // A full (KEK-capable) session on a fresh temp SQLite store, with an optional in-memory configuration
+    // layered onto the target so the reference auditor sees ${secret:...} tokens. Keyed by an operator-
+    // override KEK so the test never depends on ambient environment state.
+    private async Task<SecretsSession> NewSessionAsync(
+        IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, string?>>? configEntries = null)
+    {
+        byte[] key = new byte[32];
+        RandomNumberGenerator.Fill(key);
+        var kek = new LiteralMasterKeyProvider(Convert.ToBase64String(key));
+
+        StoreTarget target = new TargetConfigReader().Manual(DbPath, new MasterKeyOptions
+        {
+            Source = MasterKeySource.Environment,
+            EnvVarName = $"ZB_TEST_UNSET_{Guid.NewGuid():N}",
+        });
+
+        if (configEntries is not null)
+        {
+            IConfigurationRoot config = new ConfigurationBuilder().AddInMemoryCollection(configEntries).Build();
+            target = target with { Configuration = config };
+        }
+
+        return await new SecretsSessionFactory().OpenAsync(target, kek, CancellationToken.None);
+    }
+
+    // The canonical three-reference configuration: svc/ok (seeded), svc/missing (absent), svc/tomb
+    // (tombstoned). Ordinal name order is svc/missing < svc/ok < svc/tomb, so the non-Ok findings the
+    // flow prompts for arrive in the order missing, then tomb.
+    private static IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, string?>> ThreeReferenceConfig() =>
+    [
+        new("ConnectionStrings:Ok", "${secret:svc/ok}"),
+        new("Api:MissingKey", "${secret:svc/missing}"),
+        new("Feature:TombValue", "${secret:svc/tomb}"),
+    ];
+
+    private static async Task SeedAsync(SecretsSession session, string name, string value)
+    {
+        var secretName = new SecretName(name);
+        StoredSecret row = session.Cipher!.Encrypt(secretName, value, SecretContentType.Text);
+        await session.Store.UpsertAsync(row, CancellationToken.None);
+    }
+
+    // Seeds svc/ok live and leaves svc/missing absent, then seeds + tombstones svc/tomb.
+    private static async Task SeedThreeReferenceStateAsync(SecretsSession session)
+    {
+        await SeedAsync(session, "svc/ok", "OK-SEEDED-VALUE");
+        await SeedAsync(session, "svc/tomb", "TOMB-ORIGINAL-VALUE");
+        await session.Store.DeleteAsync(new SecretName("svc/tomb"), "test", CancellationToken.None);
+    }
+
+    private static int CountOccurrences(string haystack, string needle)
+    {
+        int count = 0;
+        for (int i = haystack.IndexOf(needle, StringComparison.Ordinal); i >= 0;
+             i = haystack.IndexOf(needle, i + needle.Length, StringComparison.Ordinal))
+        {
+            count++;
+        }
+
+        return count;
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task Renders_status_table_for_all_references()
+    {
+        SecretsSession session = await NewSessionAsync(ThreeReferenceConfig());
+        await SeedThreeReferenceStateAsync(session);
+
+        TestConsole console = NewConsole();
+        console.Input.PushTextWithEnter("n"); // svc/missing: decline (this test only asserts the rendered table)
+        console.Input.PushTextWithEnter("n"); // svc/tomb: decline
+        await new ReferenceAuditFlow().RunAsync(console, session, CancellationToken.None);
+
+        string output = console.Output;
+        Assert.Contains("svc/ok", output, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+        Assert.Contains("svc/missing", output, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+        Assert.Contains("svc/tomb", output, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+        Assert.Contains("Missing", output, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+        Assert.Contains("Tombstoned", output, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+        Assert.Contains("ConnectionStrings:Ok", output, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+        Assert.Contains("Api:MissingKey", output, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+        Assert.Contains("Feature:TombValue", output, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+
+        Assert.True(new ReferenceAuditFlow().RequiresKek);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task Offers_to_seed_each_non_ok_reference_and_seeds_accepted_ones()
+    {
+        SecretsSession session = await NewSessionAsync(ThreeReferenceConfig());
+        await SeedThreeReferenceStateAsync(session);
+
+        TestConsole console = NewConsole();
+        // svc/missing (first non-Ok): accept, value, Text (Enter), empty description.
+        console.Input.PushTextWithEnter("y");
+        console.Input.PushTextWithEnter("MISSING-SEED-SENTINEL");
+        console.Input.PushKey(ConsoleKey.Enter);
+        console.Input.PushKey(ConsoleKey.Enter);
+        // svc/tomb (second non-Ok): accept, value, Text (Enter), empty description.
+        console.Input.PushTextWithEnter("y");
+        console.Input.PushTextWithEnter("TOMB-SEED-SENTINEL");
+        console.Input.PushKey(ConsoleKey.Enter);
+        console.Input.PushKey(ConsoleKey.Enter);
+
+        await new ReferenceAuditFlow().RunAsync(console, session, CancellationToken.None);
+
+        IReadOnlyList<ReferenceFinding> after =
+            await new ReferenceAuditor().AuditAsync(session, CancellationToken.None);
+        Assert.All(after, f => Assert.Equal(ReferenceStatus.Ok, f.Status));
+
+        // The store now decrypts both freshly-seeded values.
+        StoredSecret? missing = await session.Store.GetAsync(new SecretName("svc/missing"), CancellationToken.None);
+        StoredSecret? tomb = await session.Store.GetAsync(new SecretName("svc/tomb"), CancellationToken.None);
+        Assert.Equal("MISSING-SEED-SENTINEL", session.Cipher!.Decrypt(missing!));
+        Assert.Equal("TOMB-SEED-SENTINEL", session.Cipher!.Decrypt(tomb!));
+        Assert.False(tomb!.IsDeleted); // upsert revived the tombstone
+
+        Assert.DoesNotContain("MISSING-SEED-SENTINEL", console.Output, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+        Assert.DoesNotContain("TOMB-SEED-SENTINEL", console.Output, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task Skipped_references_are_left_untouched()
+    {
+        SecretsSession session = await NewSessionAsync(ThreeReferenceConfig());
+        await SeedThreeReferenceStateAsync(session);
+
+        TestConsole console = NewConsole();
+        console.Input.PushTextWithEnter("n"); // svc/missing: decline
+        console.Input.PushTextWithEnter("n"); // svc/tomb: decline
+
+        await new ReferenceAuditFlow().RunAsync(console, session, CancellationToken.None);
+
+        StoredSecret? missing = await session.Store.GetAsync(new SecretName("svc/missing"), CancellationToken.None);
+        StoredSecret? tomb = await session.Store.GetAsync(new SecretName("svc/tomb"), CancellationToken.None);
+        Assert.Null(missing);
+        Assert.NotNull(tomb);
+        Assert.True(tomb!.IsDeleted);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task Manual_target_without_appsettings_reports_nothing_to_audit()
+    {
+        SecretsSession session = await NewSessionAsync(); // Manual target: empty composed configuration
+
+        TestConsole console = NewConsole();
+        await new ReferenceAuditFlow().RunAsync(console, session, CancellationToken.None);
+
+        Assert.Contains("No ${secret:} references found", console.Output, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+        Assert.Equal(0, CountOccurrences(console.Output, "Seed '")); // no seed prompt was rendered
+    }
+}