diff --git a/crates/mind-body/clippy.toml b/crates/mind-body/clippy.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e8c28d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/mind-body/clippy.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# The brake's root is a constant: no function, argument, variable or flag lets a
+# caller choose it (control.rs). The strongest form of "no variable" is that no
+# code in this crate can read the process's environment at all, whatever name it
+# would read, so the rule is a lint on the readers and not a list of names.
+# `#![forbid(clippy::disallowed_methods)]` in lib.rs keeps the library from
+# allowing them back; the binary (main.rs) and the one integration test that
+# spawns itself (tests/control.rs) carry the only allows, each with its reason.
+disallowed-methods = [
+    { path = "std::env::var", reason = "the process environment is caller-chosen input; the brake's root is CONTROL_ROOT" },
+    { path = "std::env::var_os", reason = "the process environment is caller-chosen input; the brake's root is CONTROL_ROOT" },
+    { path = "std::env::vars", reason = "the process environment is caller-chosen input; the brake's root is CONTROL_ROOT" },
+    { path = "std::env::vars_os", reason = "the process environment is caller-chosen input; the brake's root is CONTROL_ROOT" },
+    { path = "std::env::set_var", reason = "the process environment is caller-chosen input; the brake's root is CONTROL_ROOT" },
+    { path = "std::env::remove_var", reason = "the process environment is caller-chosen input; the brake's root is CONTROL_ROOT" },
+    { path = "std::env::args", reason = "the command line is caller-chosen input; only main.rs reads it" },
+    { path = "std::env::args_os", reason = "the command line is caller-chosen input; only main.rs reads it" },
+    { path = "std::env::current_exe", reason = "the executable's location is caller-chosen; the brake's root is CONTROL_ROOT" },
+    { path = "std::env::temp_dir", reason = "reads TMPDIR; the brake's root is CONTROL_ROOT" },
+    { path = "std::env::home_dir", reason = "reads HOME; the brake's root is CONTROL_ROOT" },
+    { path = "libc::getenv", reason = "the process environment is caller-chosen input; the brake's root is CONTROL_ROOT" },
+]
diff --git a/crates/mind-body/src/lib.rs b/crates/mind-body/src/lib.rs
index 4ebad12..8cf4565 100644
--- a/crates/mind-body/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/mind-body/src/lib.rs
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@
 //! repetition breaker, the one-live-Self-run rule, and the single path that
 //! opens a run in the mind and only then starts its unit.
 
+// The control root is a constant, so the library reads no part of the process
+// environment (clippy.toml lists the readers); `forbid` keeps an `allow` from
+// putting one back.
+#![forbid(clippy::disallowed_methods)]
+
 pub mod cli;
 pub mod control;
 pub mod launch;
diff --git a/crates/mind-body/src/main.rs b/crates/mind-body/src/main.rs
index 2b620fe..014faf2 100644
--- a/crates/mind-body/src/main.rs
+++ b/crates/mind-body/src/main.rs
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ fn restrict_umask() {
 #[cfg(not(unix))]
 fn restrict_umask() {}
 
+// The binary is the one place that reads the process: its arguments and the
+// operator's name. The library reads neither (clippy.toml, `#![forbid]` in lib.rs).
+#[allow(clippy::disallowed_methods, reason = "the binary reads its own arguments and the operator's name, and hands them to the library")]
 fn main() {
     restrict_umask();
     let args: Vec<String> = std::env::args().skip(1).collect();
diff --git a/crates/mind-body/tests/control.rs b/crates/mind-body/tests/control.rs
index 88e309e..6c9c159 100644
--- a/crates/mind-body/tests/control.rs
+++ b/crates/mind-body/tests/control.rs
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@
 //! as root (the verify container does); the tests that need a second user become
 //! uid 65534 with setpriv and skip with a message when they cannot.
 
+// The suite re-executes its own test binary as the writer children, and passes
+// each child its role and paths through the environment. That is test plumbing in
+// its own crate: it reaches no library code, which `#![forbid]`s these readers.
+#![allow(clippy::disallowed_methods, reason = "the suite re-executes itself and hands each child its role through the environment")]
+
 use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 use std::time::Duration;
 
diff --git a/crates/mind-body/tests/forge.rs b/crates/mind-body/tests/forge.rs
index d2ff7d4..ee36fe0 100644
--- a/crates/mind-body/tests/forge.rs
+++ b/crates/mind-body/tests/forge.rs
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 //! The brake-grant rule seen from outside the crate: the only reader takes the
 //! instance, so whatever a caller builds elsewhere (a store in a temporary
 //! directory, a symlink to another instance's directory, a copy of another
-//! instance's store, the relative root `.`, a tree that every environment
-//! variable points at) is never what a Grant is made from.
-//! The signature half of the rule (no root argument, no source reader, no
-//! struct literal, no test constructor) is the `compile_fail` examples on
-//! `read_effective`; this is the behavioural half, committed because it is the
-//! only defence of the rule against a forged store.
+//! instance's store, the relative root `.`) is never what a Grant is made from.
+//! The rest of the rule is held where it is decided, not here: the library's
+//! public surface is pinned as a whole (tests/public_surface.rs: no new public
+//! way to set a root or build a Grant), the process environment and command line
+//! are unreadable by library code (clippy.toml, `#![forbid]` in lib.rs), and the
+//! `compile_fail` examples on `read_effective` show the signature half. This is
+//! the behavioural half against a forged store.
 
 #![cfg(unix)]
 
@@ -64,60 +65,4 @@ fn no_forged_store_yields_a_grant() {
     let relative = reads(FORGED);
     std::env::set_current_dir(before).unwrap();
     assert!(matches!(relative, Effective::Held { .. }), "relative root");
-
-    // A root named by the environment. The forged tree is laid out for a value
-    // used as the root itself and for one with `minds` joined on, and every
-    // variable the process has, with the names an implementation would likely
-    // read, is pointed at it. A variable of a name neither list holds is not
-    // reached; the library build having no `std::env` reader is the rest of it.
-    let environed = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
-    release(environed.path(), FORGED);
-    std::fs::create_dir_all(environed.path().join("minds")).unwrap();
-    release(&environed.path().join("minds"), FORGED);
-    let value = environed.path().as_os_str().to_owned();
-    let mut names: Vec<std::ffi::OsString> = std::env::vars_os().map(|(name, _)| name).collect();
-    names.extend(GUESSED_ROOT_VARIABLES.iter().map(Into::into));
-    let saved: Vec<_> = names.iter().map(|name| (name.clone(), std::env::var_os(name))).collect();
-    // SAFETY: this file's one test is the only thread touching the environment.
-    unsafe {
-        for name in &names {
-            std::env::set_var(name, &value);
-        }
-    }
-    let through_environment = reads(FORGED);
-    unsafe {
-        for (name, before) in saved {
-            match before {
-                Some(before) => std::env::set_var(name, before),
-                None => std::env::remove_var(name),
-            }
-        }
-    }
-    assert!(matches!(through_environment, Effective::Held { .. }), "root from an environment variable");
 }
-
-/// Names a caller-chosen root would plausibly be read from.
-const GUESSED_ROOT_VARIABLES: [&str; 22] = [
-    "MIND_CONTROL_ROOT",
-    "MIND_BODY_ROOT",
-    "MIND_ROOT",
-    "MINDS_ROOT",
-    "MINDS_DIR",
-    "CONTROL_ROOT",
-    "CONTROL_DIR",
-    "GAMECULT_MINDS",
-    "GAMECULT_ROOT",
-    "HUGINN_ROOT",
-    "HUGINN_HOME",
-    "EUREKA_ROOT",
-    "EUREKA_HOME",
-    "EUREKA_INSTANCE_ROOT",
-    "STATE_DIRECTORY",
-    "CONFIGURATION_DIRECTORY",
-    "RUNTIME_DIRECTORY",
-    "XDG_CONFIG_HOME",
-    "XDG_STATE_HOME",
-    "XDG_DATA_HOME",
-    "HOME",
-    "TMPDIR",
-];