@@ -2280,7 +2280,14 @@ reference to `.socket/vendor/<eco>/<uuid>/` that no ledger entry owns (the
 artifact-level event repair emits: `uuid` plus `details.{ecosystem,path}`, no
 purl), so a checkout whose ledger was ignored or dropped from the commit no
 longer passes with nothing to check. Offline upstream metadata is reported as the run warning
-`vendor_jvm_upstream_unverified`. The check never starts an API client or writes
+`vendor_jvm_upstream_unverified`. A Maven reactor entry that is intact and wired
+but that `vex` does not attest — a declaration may still build the base release:
+an executable classifier or type copy of the patched GA (`tests`, `test-jar`, a
+native build), a version a property, a profile or an unpinned local root may
+move, or a base declaration added since vendoring that the re-plan cannot take
+— stays `verified` and adds the run warning `vendor_jvm_unattested`, whose
+detail names the entry and the declarations. Like the other unattested
+references, re-vendoring cannot clear it, so it is not drift. The check never starts an API client or writes
 lock/recovery files. `--check` conflicts with `--revert`.
 
 `vendor --check --local-repo <path>` additionally checks existing suffixed Maven
@@ -2636,6 +2643,7 @@ with `reason: <reason>: `:
 | `vendor_jvm_degraded` | applied, VEX withheld | `gradle_unscanned_build_logic`, `unwired_build_logic` (a nonliteral included build), `settings_plugins_unwired`, `classifier_unpatched_copy` (a classifier jar carries an unpatched copy of a patched member), `verification_parent_chain_unhandled`, `gradle_lock_overrides_vendored` (a dependency lock of the build, buildscript and settings classpath locks included, pins the module at a version no vendored row serves), `gradle_settings_lock_unrouted` (a `settings-gradle.lockfile` locks the module but that build's settings script does not hold the in-block repository entry for it), `gradle_lock_unreadable` (a lock file, or a followed custom `lockFile`, is missing, unreadable, outside the checkout or not UTF-8), `gradle_custom_lock_file` (a `lockFile` location that cannot be followed statically: anything but a literal `file(…)` in a project's own build script), `gradle_wiring_uncommitted` (VEX liveness only, never reported by `vendor`: the committed settings files, index, derived `maven-metadata.xml`, script or verification file lack wiring a re-plan would write, such as a removed apply line or in-block entry; the git hygiene files do not count), `conflicting_managed_version` / `management_unresolved` (Maven reactor: an imported BOM or an out-of-checkout parent manages the artifact at another version, or its POM is unavailable; that local root is not pinned) |
 | `vendor_jvm_note` | applied, informational | `range_declared` (a range, prefix or rich selector lists versions from the derived `maven-metadata.xml`), `ide_sources_unavailable` |
 | `vendor_jvm_upstream_unverified` | warning | Upstream metadata was taken offline and not authenticated against registry checksums. |
+| `vendor_jvm_unattested` | warning (`vendor --check`) | A Maven reactor entry is intact and wired, but a declaration may still build the base release (an executable classifier or type copy, a version a property, profile or unpinned local root may move), so `vex` does not attest it. The entry stays `verified`; the detail names the purl and the declarations (`<pom>:<line>`). |
 
 The Maven half of a root (single-module, reactor or mixed) also reports
 `vendor_jvm_degraded` with `reason: maven_f_outside_root` (Maven 3.9.2–3.9.8
 
@@ -1070,15 +1070,18 @@ pub(super) async fn classify_overlap_takeover_with(
             Some(uuid) => liveness.redirect_record(&purl, uuid).await,
             None => discovery.wires_package(&purl, WiringMode::Hosted),
         };
+        // `None`: undecided (a JVM pom that cannot be read, or a tree still
+        // referenced without attestable wiring) — neither live nor dead.
         let vendored_live = match vendor_by_purl.get(&PurlKey::new(&purl)) {
-            Some(entry) => liveness.vendor_entry(entry).await,
-            None => false,
+            Some(entry) => liveness.vendor_entry_state(entry).await,
+            None => Some(false),
         };
         match (hosted_live, vendored_live) {
-            (true, false) => out.redirect.push(purl),
-            (false, true) => out.vendored.push(purl),
-            // Both (a half-migrated lock naming both) or neither (no rewire /
-            // unreadable) does not prove a single direction — stay silent.
+            (true, Some(false)) => out.redirect.push(purl),
+            (false, Some(true)) => out.vendored.push(purl),
+            // Both (a half-migrated lock naming both), neither (no rewire)
+            // or an undecided vendored side (unreadable) does not prove a
+            // single direction — stay silent.
             _ => {}
         }
     }
@@ -4671,6 +4674,118 @@ mod tests {
         );
     }
 
+    // ---- maven: an undecided vendored claim is not a dead one -------------
+
+    const MAVEN_PURL: &str = "pkg:maven/org.slf4j/slf4j-api@1.7.36";
+    /// The vendored patch: another uuid than the hosted pin's, so its
+    /// suffixed version tells the two wirings apart.
+    const MAVEN_VENDORED_UUID: &str = "5c0ffee0-1d3a-4f6b-8c2d-7e5a9b1c3d5f";
+
+    fn maven_dep(version: &str) -> String {
+        format!(
+            "<dependency><groupId>org.slf4j</groupId><artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>\
+             <version>{version}</version></dependency>"
+        )
+    }
+
+    /// A root pom pinning slf4j-api to the hosted [`TAKEOVER_UUID`] patch,
+    /// with `extra` (a `<build>` section) inside the project.
+    async fn write_maven_hosted_pom(root: &Path, extra: &str) {
+        let pom = format!(
+            "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<project xmlns=\"http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0\">\n  \
+             <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>\n  <groupId>com.example</groupId>\n  \
+             <artifactId>app</artifactId>\n  <version>1.0.0</version>\n  \
+             <dependencies>\n    {}\n  </dependencies>\n  <repositories>\n    <repository>\n      \
+             <id>socket-patch-{TAKEOVER_UUID}</id>\n      \
+             <url>https://patch.socket.dev/patch-registry/maven/11111111-2222-4333-8444-555555555555/{TAKEOVER_UUID}/maven2</url>\n      \
+             <releases>\n        <enabled>true</enabled>\n        \
+             <checksumPolicy>fail</checksumPolicy>\n      </releases>\n    </repository>\n  \
+             </repositories>\n  {extra}\n</project>\n",
+            maven_dep(&format!("1.7.36-socket.{}", &TAKEOVER_UUID[..8])),
+        );
+        tokio::fs::write(root.join("pom.xml"), pom).await.unwrap();
+    }
+
+    /// A vendored ledger whose one entry is a Maven reactor vendoring of
+    /// slf4j-api at [`MAVEN_VENDORED_UUID`].
+    async fn write_maven_vendor_ledger(root: &Path) {
+        let sv = format!("1.7.36-socket.{}", &MAVEN_VENDORED_UUID[..8]);
+        let state = serde_json::json!({
+            "version": 1,
+            "entries": {
+                MAVEN_PURL: {
+                    "ecosystem": "maven",
+                    "basePurl": MAVEN_PURL,
+                    "uuid": MAVEN_VENDORED_UUID,
+                    "artifact": {
+                        "path": format!(
+                            ".socket/vendor/maven2/org/slf4j/slf4j-api/{sv}/slf4j-api-{sv}.jar"
+                        ),
+                    },
+                    "wiring": [{
+                        "file": "pom.xml",
+                        "kind": "maven_pom_fragment",
+                        "action": "added",
+                    }],
+                },
+            },
+        });
+        let dir = root.join(".socket/vendor");
+        tokio::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).await.unwrap();
+        tokio::fs::write(
+            dir.join("state.json"),
+            serde_json::to_string_pretty(&state).unwrap(),
+        )
+        .await
+        .unwrap();
+    }
+
+    /// A vendored Maven claim the reader cannot decide — a project file it
+    /// cannot read, or the vendored version left only where the build may
+    /// still resolve it from the tree (a build plugin's dependencies) —
+    /// is neither live nor dead: the `scan --prune` GC keeps it, so the
+    /// takeover classifier must not report it superseded (and tell the
+    /// user to remove it). Only a claim nothing references any more is.
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn maven_takeover_stays_silent_on_an_undecided_vendored_claim() {
+        let vendored = format!("1.7.36-socket.{}", &MAVEN_VENDORED_UUID[..8]);
+        let plugin = format!(
+            "<build><plugins><plugin><groupId>p</groupId><artifactId>p</artifactId>\
+             <dependencies>{}</dependencies></plugin></plugins></build>",
+            maven_dep(&vendored)
+        );
+        // Control: nothing references the vendored version — superseded.
+        let tmp = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let root = tmp.path();
+        write_maven_vendor_ledger(root).await;
+        write_maven_hosted_pom(root, "").await;
+        let takeover = classify_overlap_takeover(&common_at(root), root).await;
+        assert_eq!(
+            takeover.redirect,
+            vec![MAVEN_PURL.to_string()],
+            "{takeover:?}"
+        );
+
+        // Left only in a build plugin's dependencies.
+        let tmp = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let root = tmp.path();
+        write_maven_vendor_ledger(root).await;
+        write_maven_hosted_pom(root, &plugin).await;
+        let takeover = classify_overlap_takeover(&common_at(root), root).await;
+        assert_eq!(takeover, OverlapTakeover::default());
+
+        // A Maven config the reader cannot read (a directory).
+        let tmp = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let root = tmp.path();
+        write_maven_vendor_ledger(root).await;
+        write_maven_hosted_pom(root, "").await;
+        tokio::fs::create_dir_all(root.join(".mvn/maven.config"))
+            .await
+            .unwrap();
+        let takeover = classify_overlap_takeover(&common_at(root), root).await;
+        assert_eq!(takeover, OverlapTakeover::default());
+    }
+
     // ---- takeover DIRECTION follows the live lock, not the command ---------
 
     /// Like [`write_vendor_ledger`] but each entry records wiring the
 
@@ -174,10 +174,14 @@ async fn keep_older_vendored_patch(
     };
     if let Some(kept) = lookup_entry(&state.entries, purl).filter(|e| e.uuid != uuid) {
         let root = common.project_root();
+        // Still in force, not attestable: a JVM tree that is still wired
+        // or referenced (an executable classifier copy beside it, say) is
+        // kept; only a provably dead one gives way.
         if crate::commands::discover_wiring(common, &root)
             .await
-            .vendor_entry_live(&root, kept)
+            .vendor_entry_liveness(&root, kept)
             .await
+            != Some(false)
         {
             return Some(VendorOutcome::Refused {
                 code,
@@ -1334,7 +1338,18 @@ async fn run_check(args: &VendorArgs) -> i32 {
             None => Some("patch record missing; restore the manifest or vendor ledger".to_string()),
         };
         if failure.is_none() && vendor::jvm::apply::is_jvm_entry(entry) {
-            failure = vendor::jvm::apply::check_entry(root, entry, local_repo.as_deref()).err();
+            match vendor::jvm::apply::check_entry(root, entry, local_repo.as_deref()) {
+                Ok(None) => {}
+                // Intact and wired, but `vex` will not attest it: a
+                // declaration may still build the base. Re-vendoring cannot
+                // clear that, so it warns rather than fails (the unattested
+                // references rule).
+                Ok(Some(why)) => env.warnings.push(RunWarning {
+                    code: "vendor_jvm_unattested".into(),
+                    detail: format!("{key}: {why}; vex does not attest it"),
+                }),
+                Err(e) => failure = Some(e),
+            }
         }
         // The npm check names the exact unwired lock entry, so it runs
         // before the generic liveness rule below.
 
@@ -563,6 +563,69 @@ pub(crate) fn may_shadow(
         && may_name(dep_artifact, artifact)
 }
 
+/// The classifiers whose jars never run on a classpath: `sources` and
+/// `javadoc`. Every other classifier copy of a patched GA (tests, a native
+/// or JDK-specific build) carries code, so it must resolve the patched
+/// release too. The hosted rewriter, VEX discovery and the vendored
+/// reactor's attestation share this rule.
+pub(crate) const NON_EXECUTABLE_CLASSIFIERS: &[&str] = &["sources", "javadoc"];
+
+/// Whether a `<classifier>` copy of a GA carries code onto a classpath
+/// (see [`NON_EXECUTABLE_CLASSIFIERS`]).
+pub(crate) fn is_executable_classifier(classifier: &str) -> bool {
+    !NON_EXECUTABLE_CLASSIFIERS.contains(&classifier)
+}
+
+/// Whether a declaration of a GA is a sibling copy of its main jar that
+/// Maven resolves apart from it (and that the main-jar pin does not
+/// reach): a classifier, or a type other than `jar` / `pom`. The `<type>`
+/// a `${...}` leaves unknown counts. The hosted rewriter, VEX discovery and
+/// the vendored reactor share this rule with [`is_executable_variant`].
+pub(crate) fn is_variant(type_text: Option<&str>, classifier: Option<&str>) -> bool {
+    classifier.is_some_and(|c| !c.is_empty())
+        || type_text.is_some_and(|t| !t.is_empty() && t != "jar" && t != "pom")
+}
+
+/// The label a variant ([`is_variant`]) is reported by: its classifier,
+/// else its type.
+pub(crate) fn variant_label<'a>(
+    type_text: Option<&'a str>,
+    classifier: Option<&'a str>,
+) -> &'a str {
+    classifier
+        .filter(|c| !c.is_empty())
+        .or(type_text)
+        .unwrap_or_default()
+}
+
+/// Whether a declaration of a GA's main jar: untyped or `jar`-typed, with
+/// no classifier.
+pub(crate) fn is_main_jar(type_text: Option<&str>, classifier: Option<&str>) -> bool {
+    type_text.is_none_or(|t| t.is_empty() || t == "jar") && classifier.is_none_or(str::is_empty)
+}
+
+/// Whether a declaration of a GA that is not its main jar
+/// ([`is_main_jar`]) is a copy that carries code onto a classpath. Maven
+/// derives a classifier from some types (`test-jar` is the `tests` jar,
+/// `ejb-client` the `client` one, `java-source` / `javadoc` the
+/// non-executable ones), so a type counts like the classifier it implies.
+/// Of the rest only `pom` holds no code; every other type (`ejb`,
+/// `maven-plugin`, `bundle`, an unknown or `${...}` one) is executable.
+pub(crate) fn is_executable_variant(type_text: Option<&str>, classifier: Option<&str>) -> bool {
+    let type_text = type_text.filter(|t| !t.is_empty()).unwrap_or("jar");
+    let implied = match type_text {
+        "test-jar" => Some("tests"),
+        "ejb-client" => Some("client"),
+        "java-source" => Some("sources"),
+        "javadoc" => Some("javadoc"),
+        _ => None,
+    };
+    match classifier.filter(|c| !c.is_empty()).or(implied) {
+        Some(c) => is_executable_classifier(c),
+        None => type_text != "pom",
+    }
+}
+
 fn is_property_name(name: &str) -> bool {
     !name.is_empty()
         && name
 
@@ -8795,9 +8795,9 @@ fn rewrite_maven_pom(
         // (sources, tests, a native build) is its own artifact — managed and
         // resolved apart from the main jar — so it is left alone, and the
         // main jar's literal-vs-depMgmt decision is made without it.
-        let (variants, live): (Vec<_>, Vec<_>) = all_matches
-            .into_iter()
-            .partition(|m| m.classifier.is_some());
+        let (variants, live): (Vec<_>, Vec<_>) = all_matches.into_iter().partition(|m| {
+            crate::formats::maven::is_variant(m.type_text.as_deref(), m.classifier.as_deref())
+        });
         // A variant that carries code onto a classpath (tests, a native
         // build, a JDK-specific jar) at the patched release would keep the
         // unpatched bytes there while the GA counts as redirected and VEX
@@ -8812,8 +8812,14 @@ fn rewrite_maven_pom(
                 || crate::formats::maven::split_socket_version(v)
                     .is_some_and(|(base, _)| base == dep.version);
             if names_release {
-                let classifier = variant.classifier.as_deref().unwrap_or_default();
-                let executable = !matches!(classifier, "sources" | "javadoc");
+                let classifier = crate::formats::maven::variant_label(
+                    variant.type_text.as_deref(),
+                    variant.classifier.as_deref(),
+                );
+                let executable = crate::formats::maven::is_executable_variant(
+                    variant.type_text.as_deref(),
+                    variant.classifier.as_deref(),
+                );
                 executable_variant |= executable;
                 result.warnings.push(RewriteWarning {
                     code: "redirect_maven_classifier_unsupported".into(),
@@ -10371,6 +10377,16 @@ mod tests {
             );
             assert!(warning_codes(&r).contains(&"redirect_maven_classifier_unsupported"));
         }
+        // A type implying an executable classifier (`test-jar` is the
+        // `tests` jar) is the same copy, as the vendored reactor judges it.
+        let typed = pom_with_dep("\n      <version>1.7.36</version>", "").replace(
+            "  </dependencies>",
+            "    <dependency>\n      <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>\n      <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>\n      <version>1.7.36</version>\n      <type>test-jar</type>\n    </dependency>\n  </dependencies>",
+        );
+        let files = BTreeMap::from([("pom.xml".to_string(), typed)]);
+        let r = rewrite_registry_redirect(&files, &[maven_override()]);
+        assert!(r.files.is_empty(), "test-jar: {:?}", r.files);
+        assert!(warning_codes(&r).contains(&"redirect_maven_classifier_unsupported"));
     }
 
     /// Fail-closed literal pin: the `<version>` is rewritten to the suffixed