diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index 490a3e63..76c00f35 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -123,7 +123,9 @@ exception: take the fixed version straight away.
   audits a denial. Diff the rack endpoints in Convox's `sdk/methods.go` between the two releases, and route
   (`internal/gateway/rbac/http_routes.go`) any that everyday commands call, such as the budget read behind `ps`. The
   mock rack (`cmd/mock-convox`) has to answer the same way a real rack does, or the CLI E2E tests miss it. Don't
-  route a new Convox command's own endpoints: they stay refused until someone asks for the command.
+  route a new Convox command's own endpoints: they stay refused until someone asks for the command. A request the
+  CLI makes for itself on every command and gets by without on a 404 (like the Console session GET before each
+  websocket) goes in `isRoutineConvoxCLIRequest` instead, so it isn't audited as a denial.
 
 ### 7. DeepSource Static Analysis
 
diff --git a/convox.yml b/convox.yml
index 25f4b979..47d96676 100644
--- a/convox.yml
+++ b/convox.yml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ services:
     # Pinned to an immutable release tag. scripts/bump-version.sh sets it to the new
     # version (:vX.Y.Z); the release workflow publishes that tag when the v* git tag is pushed.
     # :e327add is the v0.1.1 release (identical to :latest when this was pinned).
-    image: docker.io/docspringcom/rack-gateway:v0.1.22
+    image: docker.io/docspringcom/rack-gateway:v0.1.23
     command: ./scripts/start-gateway.sh
     environment:
       - PORT=8080
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ services:
 
   admin:
     # Uses same image as gateway service (kept in sync by scripts/bump-version.sh)
-    image: docker.io/docspringcom/rack-gateway:v0.1.22
+    image: docker.io/docspringcom/rack-gateway:v0.1.23
     command: echo "Use this service to run migrations, database admin tasks, etc."
     environment:
       - PORT=8080
diff --git a/docs/src/content/docs/security/compliance/audit-trail.mdx b/docs/src/content/docs/security/compliance/audit-trail.mdx
index 738d7429..d6391b7d 100644
--- a/docs/src/content/docs/security/compliance/audit-trail.mdx
+++ b/docs/src/content/docs/security/compliance/audit-trail.mdx
@@ -203,6 +203,13 @@ approval check or the destructive-actions policy, and requests for rack routes t
 API tokens (`token.validate`) and requests refused by a rate limit (`rate_limit.exceeded`) are recorded the same
 way.
 
+Three requests that every Convox CLI makes for itself get the same `404` but no audit entry, because they say
+nothing about the caller and the CLI works without them. `GET /machines` and `GET /racks` come before each websocket
+(build logs, `run`, `exec`, logs) to start a Convox Console session, which a rack doesn't have.
+`GET /apps/{app}/configs/cli-env-mask` reads Convox's own env mask before env is printed to a terminal, and the
+gateway has already masked secret values. The request log still has them. Any other method or config name is a
+denial.
+
 Denials are throttled so a script retrying a refused request can't flood the log. The first denial of an action
 against a target (the resource, and for a rack request its method and path) for a user (or API token, or for a
 request without either, its client IP) is written at once, so a denial against one target is never hidden among
diff --git a/docs/src/content/docs/security/rbac/permissions.mdx b/docs/src/content/docs/security/rbac/permissions.mdx
index 8c9eaeb5..9eb4aa51 100644
--- a/docs/src/content/docs/security/rbac/permissions.mdx
+++ b/docs/src/content/docs/security/rbac/permissions.mdx
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ The gateway forwards only the rack API routes it has a permission for (see
 [Rack API Routes](#rack-api-routes)). Requests to any other route are refused with `404` and logged as denied,
 whatever the caller's role, so Convox's certificates, registries, resources, instance keyroll and terminate, and
 canceling an app update aren't available through the gateway (the `rack-gateway` CLI has no commands for them).
+Three requests the Convox CLI makes for itself are refused without a denial entry (see
+[Denied Requests](/security/compliance/audit-trail/#denied-requests)).
 
 ### Gateway Resources
 
diff --git a/internal/gateway/AGENTS.md b/internal/gateway/AGENTS.md
index 915874cb..0dd45ac0 100644
--- a/internal/gateway/AGENTS.md
+++ b/internal/gateway/AGENTS.md
@@ -153,10 +153,11 @@ Structured logging:
   roles' grants) in one migration: the previous release keeps serving requests between `migrate` and the promote,
   and it refuses every request it can't record, the promote included. Add the new function alongside the old one,
   and drop the old one in a later release
-- Denials (gateway `Authorize`, proxy RBAC/approval/destructive refusals, unknown rack routes) go through
-  `RecordDenial`: throttled per principal + action + target (resource, method and path) per minute in memory (one
-  gateway per rack). Past 1,000 runs, each principal's denials without a run share one, so memory stays bounded.
-  The request is refused either way; a denial that can't be written is logged and sent to Sentry
+- Denials (gateway `Authorize`, proxy RBAC/approval/destructive refusals, unknown rack routes other than the Convox
+  CLI's own requests in `isRoutineConvoxCLIRequest`) go through `RecordDenial`: throttled per principal + action +
+  target (resource, method and path) per minute in memory (one gateway per rack). Past 1,000 runs, each principal's
+  denials without a run share one, so memory stays bounded. The request is refused either way; a denial that can't
+  be written is logged and sent to Sentry
 
 Key files:
 
diff --git a/internal/gateway/proxy/convox_cli_requests.go b/internal/gateway/proxy/convox_cli_requests.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..371a0e35
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/gateway/proxy/convox_cli_requests.go
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+package proxy
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// envMaskConfigName is the app config Convox's CLI keeps its env mask in (`convox env mask set`).
+const envMaskConfigName = "cli-env-mask"
+
+// isRoutineConvoxCLIRequest reports whether a request to a rack route the gateway doesn't forward is one every
+// Convox CLI makes for itself and gets by fine without. The gateway still answers it with 404, but doesn't audit it
+// as a denial: it says nothing about the caller, and every deploy, run and log stream would otherwise add one.
+//
+//   - GET /machines and GET /racks: before each websocket (build logs, run, exec, logs), the Convox SDK sends a GET
+//     that starts a Convox Console session, and ignores the answer. A rack has neither route.
+//   - GET /apps/{app}/configs/cli-env-mask: `convox env` and `convox releases info` read Convox's env mask before
+//     printing to a terminal, and print the env as it came on a 404. The gateway has already masked secret values.
+//
+// Any other method or config name (a `convox env mask set`, a read of another config) is still a denial. path is
+// the canonical rack path, already checked by isSafeRackPath.
+func isRoutineConvoxCLIRequest(method, path string) bool {
+	if method != http.MethodGet {
+		return false
+	}
+	if path == "/machines" || path == "/racks" {
+		return true
+	}
+	segments := strings.Split(path, "/")
+	return len(segments) == 5 && segments[0] == "" && segments[1] == "apps" && segments[2] != "" &&
+		segments[3] == "configs" && segments[4] == envMaskConfigName
+}
diff --git a/internal/gateway/proxy/convox_cli_requests_test.go b/internal/gateway/proxy/convox_cli_requests_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b6269d24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/gateway/proxy/convox_cli_requests_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+package proxy
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/DocSpring/rack-gateway/internal/gateway/audit"
+)
+
+func TestIsRoutineConvoxCLIRequest(t *testing.T) {
+	routine := []string{"/machines", "/racks", "/apps/my-app/configs/cli-env-mask"}
+	for _, path := range routine {
+		require.Truef(t, isRoutineConvoxCLIRequest(http.MethodGet, path), "GET %s", path)
+	}
+
+	notRoutine := []struct{ method, path string }{
+		{http.MethodPut, "/apps/my-app/configs/cli-env-mask"},
+		{http.MethodPost, "/machines"},
+		{"SOCKET", "/machines"},
+		{http.MethodGet, "/machines/m1"},
+		{http.MethodGet, "/racks/staging"},
+		{http.MethodGet, "/apps/my-app/configs/other"},
+		{http.MethodGet, "/apps/my-app/configs"},
+		{http.MethodGet, "/apps//configs/cli-env-mask"},
+		{http.MethodGet, "/apps/my-app/configs/cli-env-mask/x"},
+		{http.MethodGet, "/x/apps/my-app/configs/cli-env-mask"},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range notRoutine {
+		require.Falsef(t, isRoutineConvoxCLIRequest(tc.method, tc.path), "%s %s", tc.method, tc.path)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestRoutineConvoxCLIRequestsAreNotAuditedAsDenials: the requests every Convox CLI makes for itself get the same
+// 404 as any route the gateway doesn't forward, but leave no denial in the audit log, repeat counts included.
+func TestRoutineConvoxCLIRequestsAreNotAuditedAsDenials(t *testing.T) {
+	h, database, rack, cleanup := newAttemptProxy(t)
+	defer cleanup()
+
+	for _, path := range []string{
+		"/machines", "/racks", "/apps/my-app/configs/cli-env-mask", "/convox/machines", "/machines",
+	} {
+		rr := proxyAs(t, h, database, http.MethodGet, path)
+		require.Equalf(t, http.StatusNotFound, rr.Code, "GET %s", path)
+	}
+	require.Zero(t, rack.calls.Load())
+
+	h.auditLogger.FlushDenials()
+	require.Empty(t, attemptEntries(t, database))
+}
+
+// TestNearRoutineRequestsAreStillAuditedAsDenials: a request that only resembles one of the Convox CLI's own (another
+// method, another config, a websocket) is refused and audited like any other route the gateway doesn't forward.
+func TestNearRoutineRequestsAreStillAuditedAsDenials(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := map[string]struct {
+		method, path string
+		websocket    bool
+	}{
+		"env mask write":     {method: http.MethodPut, path: "/apps/my-app/configs/cli-env-mask"},
+		"another config":     {method: http.MethodGet, path: "/apps/my-app/configs/secrets"},
+		"a machine":          {method: http.MethodGet, path: "/machines/m1"},
+		"websocket":          {method: http.MethodGet, path: "/machines", websocket: true},
+		"dot segment app":    {method: http.MethodGet, path: "/apps/../configs/cli-env-mask"},
+		"query in app (%3F)": {method: http.MethodGet, path: "/apps/a?b/configs/cli-env-mask"},
+	}
+	for name, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			h, database, rack, cleanup := newAttemptProxy(t)
+			defer cleanup()
+
+			req := httptest.NewRequest(tc.method, "/", nil)
+			req.URL.Path = tc.path
+			req = req.WithContext(requestAs(t, database, attemptUserEmail).Context())
+			if tc.websocket {
+				req.Header.Set("Connection", "Upgrade")
+				req.Header.Set("Upgrade", "websocket")
+			}
+			rr := httptest.NewRecorder()
+			h.ProxyToRack(rr, req)
+			require.Equal(t, http.StatusNotFound, rr.Code)
+			require.Zero(t, rack.calls.Load())
+
+			entries := attemptEntries(t, database)
+			require.Len(t, entries, 1)
+			require.Equal(t, audit.StatusDenied, entries[0].Status)
+			require.Equal(t, http.StatusNotFound, entries[0].HTTPStatus)
+			require.Contains(t, entries[0].Details, `"reason":"the gateway doesn't forward this rack route"`)
+		})
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/gateway/proxy/handler.go b/internal/gateway/proxy/handler.go
index 8332fb9a..ea16d748 100644
--- a/internal/gateway/proxy/handler.go
+++ b/internal/gateway/proxy/handler.go
@@ -279,7 +279,8 @@ func (h *Handler) prepareProxyRequest(
 
 // resolveRackRoute rewrites r to its canonical rack path and finds the RBAC resource and action for it. A path
 // that isn't an allowed rack route is answered with 404 and audited as a denial, so probing the rack for routes the
-// gateway doesn't forward leaves a record.
+// gateway doesn't forward leaves a record. The requests every Convox CLI makes for itself
+// (isRoutineConvoxCLIRequest) aren't audited.
 func (h *Handler) resolveRackRoute(
 	w http.ResponseWriter,
 	r *http.Request,
@@ -289,17 +290,18 @@ func (h *Handler) resolveRackRoute(
 ) (*http.Request, rbac.Resource, rbac.Action, error) {
 	r, ok := canonicalRackRequest(r)
 	method := h.determineMethod(r)
+	safe := ok && isSafeRackPath(r.URL.Path)
 	var resource rbac.Resource
 	var action rbac.Action
-	if ok && isSafeRackPath(r.URL.Path) {
+	if safe {
 		resource, action, ok = rbac.MatchRackRoute(method, r.URL.Path)
-	} else {
-		ok = false
 	}
-	if !ok {
+	if !safe || !ok {
 		err := fmt.Errorf("unknown route: %s %s", method, r.URL.Path)
 		h.auditLogger.LogRequest(r, authUser.Email, rackName, "deny", http.StatusNotFound, time.Since(start), err)
-		h.recordDenial(r, authUser, http.StatusNotFound, "the gateway doesn't forward this rack route")
+		if !safe || !isRoutineConvoxCLIRequest(method, r.URL.Path) {
+			h.recordDenial(r, authUser, http.StatusNotFound, "the gateway doesn't forward this rack route")
+		}
 		http.NotFound(w, r)
 		return r, 0, 0, errors.New("unknown route")
 	}
diff --git a/web/package.json b/web/package.json
index ad679f1e..01882145 100644
--- a/web/package.json
+++ b/web/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "web",
-  "version": "0.1.22",
+  "version": "0.1.23",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "scripts": {