diff --git a/clients/web/src/test/core/mcp/fetchTracking.test.ts b/clients/web/src/test/core/mcp/fetchTracking.test.ts
index df20f968..bae371ae 100644
--- a/clients/web/src/test/core/mcp/fetchTracking.test.ts
+++ b/clients/web/src/test/core/mcp/fetchTracking.test.ts
@@ -477,6 +477,35 @@ describe("createFetchTracker", () => {
     expect(bodies[0]!.body).toBe('{"tools":[]}');
   });
 
+  it("redacts a nested sensitive key in a JSON request body through the tracker", async () => {
+    let outboundInit: RequestInit | undefined;
+    const baseFetch = vi.fn(
+      async (_input: RequestInfo | URL, init?: RequestInit) => {
+        outboundInit = init;
+        return new Response("ok");
+      },
+    );
+    const tracked: FetchRequestEntryBase[] = [];
+    const fetcher = createFetchTracker(baseFetch as typeof fetch, {
+      trackRequest: (entry) => tracked.push(entry),
+    });
+    const liveBody = JSON.stringify({
+      params: { arguments: { access_token: "sekret", page: 2 } },
+    });
+    await fetcher("https://example.com/mcp", {
+      method: "POST",
+      headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
+      body: liveBody,
+    });
+    // Recorded copy has the nested secret masked; non-sensitive siblings kept.
+    expect(JSON.parse(tracked[0]!.requestBody!)).toEqual({
+      params: { arguments: { access_token: REDACTED_VALUE, page: 2 } },
+    });
+    expect(JSON.stringify(tracked[0])).not.toContain("sekret");
+    // The live outbound request body is byte-identical (unredacted).
+    expect(outboundInit?.body).toBe(liveBody);
+  });
+
   it("does not throw on a malformed body — logs it as-is", async () => {
     const baseFetch = vi.fn(async () => new Response("ok"));
     const tracked: FetchRequestEntryBase[] = [];
diff --git a/core/mcp/fetchTracking.ts b/core/mcp/fetchTracking.ts
index 9e36e328..737bdc9c 100644
--- a/core/mcp/fetchTracking.ts
+++ b/core/mcp/fetchTracking.ts
@@ -41,7 +41,12 @@ const SENSITIVE_BODY_FIELDS: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set([
   "token",
 ]);
 
-/** Placeholder substituted for sensitive body / URL values in recorded entries. */
+/**
+ * Placeholder substituted for sensitive body / URL values in recorded entries.
+ * Deliberately kept separate from {@link REDACTED_HEADER_VALUE} (even though both
+ * are `"[REDACTED]"` today) so the header and body/URL redaction paths can evolve
+ * their sentinels independently.
+ */
 export const REDACTED_VALUE = "[REDACTED]";
 
 /** Whether `name` (any casing) is a known-sensitive field / query-param name. */
@@ -124,6 +129,11 @@ function redactJsonValue(value: unknown): unknown {
  * values change. Best-effort and never throws: an empty, non-string, or
  * unparseable body is returned unchanged. Only the recorded copy is redacted;
  * the live request body is never touched.
+ *
+ * Scope is deliberately limited to `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` and JSON:
+ * these cover the OAuth token flows this redaction targets. `multipart/form-data`
+ * (and other binary/opaque bodies) are passed through verbatim — OAuth never uses
+ * multipart, so the risk is low; revisit if a multipart secret path appears.
  */
 export function redactBody(
   body: string | undefined,