diff --git a/crates/memoryd/tests/honcho_ask_serve.rs b/crates/memoryd/tests/honcho_ask_serve.rs
index a2995d4..f9b4509 100644
--- a/crates/memoryd/tests/honcho_ask_serve.rs
+++ b/crates/memoryd/tests/honcho_ask_serve.rs
@@ -60,6 +60,16 @@ impl Home {
 
 /// One call on `brokerd`'s socket and its answer, within 20 s; how long it took.
 fn call(socket: &Path, tool: &str, arguments: &str) -> (ToolResponse, Duration) {
+    call_at(socket, tool, arguments, DataClass::Private)
+}
+
+/// `call`, with the session's class on the `MemoryCall`.
+fn call_at(
+    socket: &Path,
+    tool: &str,
+    arguments: &str,
+    taint: DataClass,
+) -> (ToolResponse, Duration) {
     let started = Instant::now();
     let mut stream = UnixStream::connect(socket).unwrap();
     stream
@@ -76,7 +86,7 @@ fn call(socket: &Path, tool: &str, arguments: &str) -> (ToolResponse, Duration)
                 tool: tool.to_string(),
                 arguments: arguments.to_string(),
             },
-            taint: DataClass::Private,
+            taint,
             untrusted: false,
         }),
     };
@@ -230,3 +240,29 @@ fn an_unknown_tool_is_refused() {
         "memoryd runs only recall, memory and ask_memory"
     );
 }
+
+/// Spec 13: a `secret` session's question still reaches Honcho; only a question holding a secret
+/// is refused.
+#[test]
+fn a_secret_session_still_asks_honcho() {
+    let fake = FakeHoncho::start();
+    let home = Home::serve("ask-serve-secret", Some(&fake.url));
+    let (content, class, untrusted) = result(
+        call_at(
+            &home.config.broker_socket(),
+            "ask_memory",
+            QUESTION,
+            DataClass::Secret,
+        )
+        .0,
+    );
+    assert!(
+        fake.requests().iter().any(|r| r.path.ends_with("/chat")),
+        "Honcho was not asked: {content}"
+    );
+    assert!(
+        content.starts_with("[1] memory · own · private\n  Based on what I found in memory, "),
+        "{content}"
+    );
+    assert_eq!((class, untrusted), (DataClass::Private, false));
+}
diff --git a/crates/memoryd/tests/honcho_recall_serve.rs b/crates/memoryd/tests/honcho_recall_serve.rs
index b28bc25..000c016 100644
--- a/crates/memoryd/tests/honcho_recall_serve.rs
+++ b/crates/memoryd/tests/honcho_recall_serve.rs
@@ -71,6 +71,16 @@ impl Home {
 
 /// One call on `brokerd`'s socket and its answer, within 20 s; how long it took.
 fn call(socket: &Path, tool: &str, arguments: &str) -> (ToolResponse, Duration) {
+    call_at(socket, tool, arguments, DataClass::Private)
+}
+
+/// `call`, with the session's class on the `MemoryCall`.
+fn call_at(
+    socket: &Path,
+    tool: &str,
+    arguments: &str,
+    taint: DataClass,
+) -> (ToolResponse, Duration) {
     let started = Instant::now();
     let mut stream = UnixStream::connect(socket).unwrap();
     stream
@@ -87,7 +97,7 @@ fn call(socket: &Path, tool: &str, arguments: &str) -> (ToolResponse, Duration)
                 tool: tool.to_string(),
                 arguments: arguments.to_string(),
             },
-            taint: DataClass::Private,
+            taint,
             untrusted: false,
         }),
     };
@@ -239,3 +249,24 @@ fn without_honcho_recall_answers_as_before() {
         lines.lock().unwrap()
     );
 }
+
+/// Spec 13: a `secret` session's query still reaches Honcho; only a query holding a secret is
+/// refused.
+#[test]
+fn a_secret_session_still_asks_honcho() {
+    let fake = FakeHoncho::start();
+    let home = Home::new("recall-serve-secret", Some(&fake.url));
+    let _lines = home.serve();
+    let (content, class, untrusted) = result(
+        call_at(
+            &home.config.broker_socket(),
+            "recall",
+            r#"{"query":"tea","k":10}"#,
+            DataClass::Secret,
+        )
+        .0,
+    );
+    assert!(!reads(&fake).is_empty(), "Honcho was not asked: {content}");
+    assert!(content.contains("tea"), "{content}");
+    assert_eq!((class, untrusted), (DataClass::Private, true));
+}