diff --git a/hive-priv/src/main.rs b/hive-priv/src/main.rs
index 66d1f803..a5ca3d75 100644
--- a/hive-priv/src/main.rs
+++ b/hive-priv/src/main.rs
@@ -2335,6 +2335,35 @@ fn validate_bind_path(path: &str) -> Result<()> {
 /// write network isolation settings, then append `EXTRA_NSPAWN_FLAGS`.
 /// When `isolation` is `Some`, writes `PRIVATE_NETWORK=1` + veth wiring;
 /// when `None`, writes `PRIVATE_NETWORK=0`.
+/// `--tmpfs=<mount>/.git` for every bound git repo, hiding its metadata
+/// from inside the container.
+///
+/// Two kinds of mount qualify, for one reason: **the agent is given a
+/// working tree, never a repository.** `/knowledge` is the hive's shared
+/// docs — whose `.git/config` has held a credential the host-side worker
+/// embedded — and `/agents/<name>/config` is a config repo, an agent's own
+/// or a parent's read-only view of a child's. In both cases `.git` carries
+/// every branch and the full history of a document whose *currently
+/// deployed* value is the only thing a reader may act on, and an abandoned
+/// branch is indistinguishable from a live one.
+///
+/// An overlay rather than an exported copy: there is no second tree to
+/// keep in sync, so nothing can go stale, and no code path has to remember
+/// to refresh it.
+///
+/// ⚠️ Ordering matters — these must be appended **after** the `--bind`
+/// flags so nspawn mounts them on top of the already-mounted trees.
+/// Config mounts are matched by shape, not by a name list: the set is
+/// dynamic, growing with each child bound into a parent.
+fn git_overlay_flags(binds: &[BindMount]) -> Vec<String> {
+    binds
+        .iter()
+        .map(|b| b.container_path.as_str())
+        .filter(|p| *p == "/knowledge" || (p.starts_with("/agents/") && p.ends_with("/config")))
+        .map(|p| format!("--tmpfs={p}/.git"))
+        .collect()
+}
+
 fn write_nspawn_flags(
     container: &str,
     binds: &[BindMount],
@@ -2395,19 +2424,7 @@ fn write_nspawn_flags(
             format!("{flag}={}:{}", b.host_path, b.container_path)
         })
         .collect();
-    // Defense-in-depth for the knowledge bind-mount: overlay an empty tmpfs
-    // on /knowledge/.git so the repo metadata (including any credentials the
-    // host-side git worker embedded in .git/config) is invisible inside agent
-    // containers. Agents only need the working-tree documents; .git/ has no
-    // legitimate use in-container. The --tmpfs must come after the --bind-ro
-    // so nspawn processes it as an overlay on top of the already-mounted tree.
-    // `crate::knowledge::CONTAINER_MOUNT` is "/knowledge" (hive-c0re const).
-    if binds
-        .iter()
-        .any(|b| b.container_path.as_str() == "/knowledge")
-    {
-        flags.push("--tmpfs=/knowledge/.git".to_owned());
-    }
+    flags.extend(git_overlay_flags(binds));
     // Credential forwarding: nspawn loads each host secret into the
     // container's credential store under `<name>`; inner units inherit it
     // via `LoadCredential=<name>`. Validated (name charset + bind-path
@@ -2573,12 +2590,58 @@ async fn sync_agent_tmpfiles(agents: &[AgentTmpfilesEntry]) -> Result<(String, S
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::{
-        OwnedFd, PAUSED_MARKER_FILE, PrivRequest, check_fd_agreement, contains_secret_shaped_run,
-        limits_dropin_body, redact_secret_line, remove_marker_in, write_state_file_nofollow,
+        BindMount, OwnedFd, PAUSED_MARKER_FILE, PrivRequest, check_fd_agreement,
+        contains_secret_shaped_run, git_overlay_flags, limits_dropin_body, redact_secret_line,
+        remove_marker_in, write_state_file_nofollow,
     };
     use std::path::PathBuf;
     use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicU32, Ordering};
 
+    fn bind(container_path: &str) -> BindMount {
+        BindMount {
+            host_path: "/var/lib/hyperhive/whatever".to_owned(),
+            container_path: container_path.to_owned(),
+            read_only: true,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Every bound git repo gets its `.git` overlaid — the knowledge tree
+    /// and *each* config mount, an agent's own plus every child's.
+    ///
+    /// The child case is the one worth pinning: that set grows at runtime
+    /// as agents gain children, so a rule written as a list of names would
+    /// silently stop covering new ones.
+    #[test]
+    fn every_bound_git_repo_gets_its_dot_git_hidden() {
+        let flags = git_overlay_flags(&[
+            bind("/knowledge"),
+            bind("/agents/atlas/config"),
+            bind("/agents/kiddo/config"),
+        ]);
+        assert_eq!(
+            flags,
+            [
+                "--tmpfs=/knowledge/.git",
+                "--tmpfs=/agents/atlas/config/.git",
+                "--tmpfs=/agents/kiddo/config/.git",
+            ]
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// ...and nothing else does. A blanket "overlay .git on every bind"
+    /// would mask a real `.git` under `state/`, where an agent legitimately
+    /// keeps working clones of its own.
+    #[test]
+    fn non_repo_mounts_are_left_alone() {
+        let flags = git_overlay_flags(&[
+            bind("/agents/atlas/state"),
+            bind("/shared"),
+            bind("/applied"),
+            bind("/agents/atlas/config-notes"),
+        ]);
+        assert!(flags.is_empty(), "overlaid a non-repo mount: {flags:?}");
+    }
+
     /// A request that streams into a caller-supplied descriptor.
     fn fd_taking_request() -> PrivRequest {
         PrivRequest::SendAgentSnapshotToFd {