diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0bed9cc..ff6202c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -39,6 +39,22 @@ APIs change between minors without a deprecation period.
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- **VS Code's sign-in lost its place through the sign-in page**, so the
+  prompt to confirm came every time; a link to the same gateway by plain
+  http could take an https setting down to http; and a new build of the
+  extension was not installed over an old one (the command now says
+  `--force`).
+- **The install guide's recordings were not checked for secrets**, only
+  the page; every frame is now.
+- **MCP server fields could not be emptied**, an address could carry a
+  password, the cluster's own server could not be changed from the
+  console, and a grant to a key that does not exist was said done.
+- **A guardrail service two policies named was asked as the first said**,
+  not the stricter; a `null` answer read as safe; and with `restore` the
+  request log kept the answer with the redacted values back in it.
+- **What an engine downloads by a Hugging Face id was not held to the
+  pickle refusal** — an adapter by its id, a TensorRT-LLM model's; a model
+  with either now needs `allow_pickle`.
 - **`server init` run again on a machine already set up was refused its
   memory**, as on an 8 GB install fixing its certificate with `--host`, and
   judges that would not be installed (no mirror) were counted.
diff --git a/docs/admin-api.openapi.json b/docs/admin-api.openapi.json
index 76d36f4..d0926f5 100644
--- a/docs/admin-api.openapi.json
+++ b/docs/admin-api.openapi.json
@@ -7550,6 +7550,13 @@
           "rate_per_minute": {
             "type": "integer",
             "description": "RatePerMinute bounds each caller's calls to its tools; a negative number takes the bound away."
+          },
+          "clear": {
+            "type": "array",
+            "items": {
+              "type": "string"
+            },
+            "description": "Clear empties what an empty field above would leave as it is: \"description\", \"timeout\" (back to the default), \"rate\"."
           }
         }
       },
diff --git a/internal/vscodeext/ext/extension.js b/internal/vscodeext/ext/extension.js
index b1141da..1d3a7ee 100644
--- a/internal/vscodeext/ext/extension.js
+++ b/internal/vscodeext/ext/extension.js
@@ -103,12 +103,18 @@ function activate(context) {
   async function handleUri(uri) {
     if (uri.path !== '/connect') return;
     const q = new URLSearchParams(uri.query);
-    const base = lib.gatewayBase(q.get('gateway'));
+    let base = lib.gatewayBase(q.get('gateway'));
     const key = (q.get('key') || '').trim();
     if (!base || !key) {
       vscode.window.showErrorMessage('llmgw: the link has no gateway or no key in it.');
       return;
     }
+    // The same gateway by plain http, behind a proxy that ends TLS without
+    // saying so: kept at https, so the key is never sent in the clear.
+    const current = gateway();
+    if (current && lib.downgrades(current, base)) {
+      base = current;
+    }
     const expected =
       pending && pending.base === base && q.get('state') === pending.state && Date.now() - pending.at < SIGN_IN_TTL_MS;
     pending = null;
diff --git a/internal/vscodeext/ext/lib.js b/internal/vscodeext/ext/lib.js
index 93343f2..45efe9d 100644
--- a/internal/vscodeext/ext/lib.js
+++ b/internal/vscodeext/ext/lib.js
@@ -263,7 +263,19 @@ function tokenGuess(text) {
   return Math.ceil(String(text || '').length / 4);
 }
 
+// downgrades reports whether next is the gateway at current by plain http
+// where current is https: the same host and port, a weaker scheme.
+function downgrades(current, next) {
+  try {
+    const a = new URL(current);
+    const b = new URL(next);
+    return a.protocol === 'https:' && b.protocol === 'http:' && a.hostname === b.hostname;
+  } catch (e) {
+    return false;
+  }
+}
+
 module.exports = {
   USER, ASSISTANT, SYSTEM,
-  gatewayBase, modelInfo, chatMessages, chatTools, requestBody, sseData, Answer, errorMessage, tokenGuess,
+  gatewayBase, modelInfo, chatMessages, chatTools, requestBody, sseData, Answer, errorMessage, tokenGuess, downgrades,
 };
diff --git a/internal/vscodeext/ext/lib_test.js b/internal/vscodeext/ext/lib_test.js
index b61c029..f6dfc60 100644
--- a/internal/vscodeext/ext/lib_test.js
+++ b/internal/vscodeext/ext/lib_test.js
@@ -121,3 +121,10 @@ test('errorMessage says what to do about a refused key', () => {
   assert.match(lib.errorMessage(429, '{"error":{"message":"rate limit"}}'), /rate limit/);
   assert.match(lib.errorMessage(500, 'boom'), /500: boom/);
 });
+
+test('a link to the same gateway by plain http is a downgrade', () => {
+  assert.equal(lib.downgrades('https://llm.example.com', 'http://llm.example.com'), true);
+  assert.equal(lib.downgrades('https://llm.example.com', 'https://llm.example.com'), false);
+  assert.equal(lib.downgrades('http://llm.example.com', 'https://llm.example.com'), false);
+  assert.equal(lib.downgrades('https://a.example.com', 'http://b.example.com'), false);
+});
diff --git a/internal/web/account.go b/internal/web/account.go
index 4f9fe82..5a0d852 100644
--- a/internal/web/account.go
+++ b/internal/web/account.go
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"log/slog"
 	"net/http"
+	"net/url"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
@@ -339,7 +340,7 @@ func (p *AccountPages) login(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 
 	setSessionCookie(w, r, token)
 	setCSRFCookie(w, r, csrf)
-	http.Redirect(w, r, "/profile", http.StatusSeeOther)
+	http.Redirect(w, r, afterSignIn(w, r), http.StatusSeeOther)
 }
 
 func (p *AccountPages) logout(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
@@ -430,6 +431,12 @@ func (p *AccountPages) profile(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	noStore(w)
 	sess, user, ok := p.session(r)
 	if !ok {
+		// Back here after signing in, with what was asked: VS Code's
+		// sign-in carries its state in the query, and lost it otherwise.
+		if r.URL.RawQuery != "" {
+			http.SetCookie(w, &http.Cookie{Name: afterSignInCookie, Value: url.QueryEscape(r.URL.RawQuery),
+				Path: "/", HttpOnly: true, Secure: isHTTPS(r), SameSite: http.SameSiteLaxMode, MaxAge: 600})
+		}
 		http.Redirect(w, r, "/login", http.StatusSeeOther)
 		return
 	}
@@ -827,3 +834,26 @@ func errorRef() string {
 
 // SetHistory gives the pages the metrics store.
 func (p *AccountPages) SetHistory(h History) { p.history = h }
+
+// afterSignInCookie holds, for ten minutes, the query /profile was asked
+// with before signing in.
+const afterSignInCookie = "llmgw_after"
+
+// afterSignIn is where a sign-in goes: /profile, with the query it was
+// first asked with — only ever /profile, so the cookie cannot send anyone
+// elsewhere.
+func afterSignIn(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) string {
+	c, err := r.Cookie(afterSignInCookie)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "/profile"
+	}
+	http.SetCookie(w, &http.Cookie{Name: afterSignInCookie, Path: "/", MaxAge: -1})
+	q, err := url.QueryUnescape(c.Value)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "/profile"
+	}
+	if _, err := url.ParseQuery(q); err != nil || strings.ContainsAny(q, "\r\n") {
+		return "/profile"
+	}
+	return "/profile?" + q
+}
diff --git a/internal/web/admin_mcp_test.go b/internal/web/admin_mcp_test.go
index 9b08c4e..3dd5ec0 100644
--- a/internal/web/admin_mcp_test.go
+++ b/internal/web/admin_mcp_test.go
@@ -207,3 +207,28 @@ func TestAnMCPServersFieldsCanBeEmptiedAndItsAddressHoldsNoPassword(t *testing.T
 		t.Errorf("a grant to no key: %s", body)
 	}
 }
+
+func TestASignInComesBackToWhatProfileWasAskedWith(t *testing.T) {
+	// VS Code's sign-in opens /profile?tool=vscode&state=…; not signed in,
+	// that went to /login and came back to a bare /profile.
+	p := NewAccountPages(fakeAccounts{}, nil, nil, "v0", slog.New(slog.NewTextHandler(io.Discard, nil)))
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	p.profile(w, httptest.NewRequest("GET", "/profile?tool=vscode&state=s123", nil))
+	var kept *http.Cookie
+	for _, c := range w.Result().Cookies() {
+		if c.Name == afterSignInCookie {
+			kept = c
+		}
+	}
+	if w.Code != http.StatusSeeOther || kept == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("%d, cookie %v", w.Code, kept)
+	}
+	r := httptest.NewRequest("POST", "/login", nil)
+	r.AddCookie(kept)
+	if got := afterSignIn(httptest.NewRecorder(), r); got != "/profile?tool=vscode&state=s123" {
+		t.Errorf("after signing in: %q", got)
+	}
+	if got := afterSignIn(httptest.NewRecorder(), httptest.NewRequest("POST", "/login", nil)); got != "/profile" {
+		t.Errorf("without one: %q", got)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/web/connect.go b/internal/web/connect.go
index cfcbafd..484b536 100644
--- a/internal/web/connect.go
+++ b/internal/web/connect.go
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ func connectIn(l *Lang, tool, base, model, key string, f ModelFacts) connectView
 		v.Notes = []string{l.T("connect.note.codex_blocks"), l.T("connect.note.codex_env")}
 	case "vscode":
 		download := base + "/setup/vscode/" + vscodeext.FileName
-		v.Command = fmt.Sprintf("curl -fsSLo %[1]s '%[2]s' && code --install-extension %[1]s", vscodeext.FileName, download)
+		v.Command = fmt.Sprintf("curl -fsSLo %[1]s '%[2]s' && code --install-extension %[1]s --force", vscodeext.FileName, download)
 		v.Link = vscodeLink(base, key, "")
 		v.Fields = []connectField{
 			{l.T("connect.field.gateway"), base},
diff --git a/internal/web/connect_test.go b/internal/web/connect_test.go
index d904e93..b3830e1 100644
--- a/internal/web/connect_test.go
+++ b/internal/web/connect_test.go
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ func TestContinueNeverAsksForMoreThanTheGatewayAllows(t *testing.T) {
 
 func TestVSCodeGetsTheExtensionAndALinkBack(t *testing.T) {
 	c := connectFor("vscode", "https://gw.example", "m", "sk-llmgw-abc", ModelFacts{})
-	if !strings.Contains(c.Command, "https://gw.example/setup/vscode/llmgw.vsix") || !strings.Contains(c.Command, "code --install-extension llmgw.vsix") {
+	if !strings.Contains(c.Command, "https://gw.example/setup/vscode/llmgw.vsix") || !strings.Contains(c.Command, "code --install-extension llmgw.vsix --force") {
 		t.Errorf("command = %s", c.Command)
 	}
 	if strings.Contains(c.Command, "sk-llmgw-abc") {
diff --git a/internal/web/install_test.go b/internal/web/install_test.go
index a4366bb..5e71104 100644
--- a/internal/web/install_test.go
+++ b/internal/web/install_test.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package web
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
+	"encoding/json"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/http/httptest"
 	"regexp"
@@ -104,3 +105,26 @@ func TestTheRecordingsAreServedCompressed(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("an unknown recording answered %d", w.Code)
 	}
 }
+
+func TestNoRecordingCarriesASecret(t *testing.T) {
+	// The page shows one screen of each; the player fetches every frame.
+	// Each frame as written, and as the player decodes it, is looked at.
+	secret := []*regexp.Regexp{
+		regexp.MustCompile(`sk-llmgw-[A-Za-z0-9_-]{8,}`),
+		regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)(password|passphrase|token)[^\n]{0,40}?[:=]\s*[A-Za-z0-9+/_-]{12,}`),
+		regexp.MustCompile(`-----BEGIN [A-Z ]*PRIVATE KEY-----`),
+	}
+	for name, c := range guide.Casts {
+		for i, f := range c.Frames {
+			var text string
+			_ = json.Unmarshal(f, &text)
+			for _, s := range []string{string(f), text} {
+				for _, rx := range secret {
+					if m := rx.FindString(s); m != "" {
+						t.Errorf("recording %s frame %d shows %q", name, i, m)
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/web/oidc.go b/internal/web/oidc.go
index f192a47..de68cb1 100644
--- a/internal/web/oidc.go
+++ b/internal/web/oidc.go
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ func (p *AccountPages) oidcCallback(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	audit.Write(r.Context(), p.audit, p.log, store.AuditEvent{At: time.Now(), Actor: user.Email, Source: "web",
 		Action: "sign in through " + o.cfg.Issuer, Status: http.StatusSeeOther,
 		Detail: audit.Redact(map[string]any{"role": user.StaffRole()})})
-	http.Redirect(w, r, "/profile", http.StatusSeeOther)
+	http.Redirect(w, r, afterSignIn(w, r), http.StatusSeeOther)
 }
 
 // errOIDCAccount is a provider's person the gateway will not let in, with why.