diff --git a/open-sse/executors/tinycms.ts b/open-sse/executors/tinycms.ts
index f8ffc51b7a..68c916e047 100644
--- a/open-sse/executors/tinycms.ts
+++ b/open-sse/executors/tinycms.ts
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ export class TinyCmsExecutor extends BaseExecutor {
       // Security context: this nonce is signed into `x-secure-signature` and
       // reused as the session id, so it must be unpredictable. `node:crypto`
       // randomUUID() is always available on the supported runtime — never fall
-      // back to Math.random() (CodeQL js/insecure-randomness).
+      // back to a non-CSPRNG source (CodeQL js/insecure-randomness).
       const nonceJs = randomUUID();
 
       const securePayload = generateSecurePayload(
diff --git a/tests/unit/security-alerts-0812.test.ts b/tests/unit/security-alerts-0812.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..79d66fd3c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/security-alerts-0812.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+import test from "node:test";
+
+const REPO_ROOT = join(import.meta.dirname, "..", "..");
+
+/**
+ * Regression guards for the CodeQL alerts triaged on 2026-08-12.
+ *
+ * Both are source-level invariants rather than behavioral round-trips: the functions they
+ * protect are module-private (`decodeXmlText`) or only reachable through a live upstream
+ * handshake (`tinycms` nonce), so the guard asserts the property on the source itself.
+ */
+
+test("decodeXmlText decodes & last so encoded entities do not double-unescape", () => {
+  const source = readFileSync(
+    join(REPO_ROOT, "open-sse/vendor/codex-chatgpt-web/adapters/chatgpt-web/environment.ts"),
+    "utf8"
+  );
+  const body = /function decodeXmlText\(value: string\): string \{([\s\S]*?)\n\}/.exec(source)?.[1];
+  assert.ok(body, "decodeXmlText not found — update this guard if the helper was renamed");
+
+  const order = [...body.matchAll(/replaceAll\("(&[^"]+;)"/g)].map((match) => match[1]);
+  assert.ok(order.length >= 2, `expected several entity replacements, got ${order.length}`);
+  assert.equal(
+    order.at(-1),
+    "&",
+    `"&" must be the LAST entity decoded, otherwise """ decodes to '"' instead ` +
+      `of the literal """. Current order: ${order.join(" -> ")}`
+  );
+
+  // Mirror the implementation to document the property the ordering buys us.
+  const decode = (value: string) =>
+    order.reduce((acc, entity) => {
+      const plain = { "&lt;": "<", "&gt;": ">", "&quot;": '"', "&#39;": "'", "&amp;": "&" }[entity];
+      return plain === undefined ? acc : acc.replaceAll(entity, plain);
+    }, value);
+  assert.equal(decode("&amp;quot;"), "&quot;");
+  assert.equal(decode("&amp;#39;"), "&#39;");
+  assert.equal(decode("&amp;lt;"), "&lt;");
+});
+
+test("tinycms signs its anti-replay nonce with a CSPRNG, never Math.random", () => {
+  const source = readFileSync(join(REPO_ROOT, "open-sse/executors/tinycms.ts"), "utf8");
+
+  assert.match(
+    source,
+    /const nonceJs = randomUUID\(\)/,
+    "the tinycms nonce must come from node:crypto randomUUID"
+  );
+  assert.doesNotMatch(
+    source,
+    /Math\.random\(\)/,
+    "Math.random() is not a CSPRNG — the nonce is signed into the anti-replay payload"
+  );
+});