diff --git a/avicbotwikimedia.py b/avicbotwikimedia.py
index 9328258..5fb0213 100755
--- a/avicbotwikimedia.py
+++ b/avicbotwikimedia.py
@@ -459,6 +459,52 @@ class BotConfig:
 # =============================================================================
 
 
+# Log labels for outgoing IRC lines. Values are literals, so anything looked
+# up here is provably NOT a substring of the line being sent.
+#
+# Redacting auth commands and then logging `message.split(" ", 1)[0]` still
+# left the logged value data-dependent on the outgoing line, and CodeQL
+# reported it three times on that basis (alerts #1, #9, #12 — fixed,
+# dismissed as a false positive, then raised again once the line moved).
+# Auth verbs are deliberately absent: if the redaction branch in send_raw is
+# ever changed, a PASS/NICKSERV line still logs "UNKNOWN" rather than leaking.
+_LOGGABLE_IRC_VERBS: dict[str, str] = {
+    v: v
+    for v in (
+        "PRIVMSG",
+        "NOTICE",
+        "JOIN",
+        "PART",
+        "PING",
+        "PONG",
+        "MODE",
+        "NICK",
+        "USER",
+        "QUIT",
+        "WHO",
+        "WHOIS",
+        "WHOWAS",
+        "TOPIC",
+        "KICK",
+        "INVITE",
+        "NAMES",
+        "LIST",
+        "AWAY",
+        "CAP",
+    )
+}
+
+
+def _loggable_verb(message: str) -> str:
+    """Return a constant, log-safe label for an outgoing IRC line.
+
+    The result is always one of ``_LOGGABLE_IRC_VERBS``' literal values or
+    ``"UNKNOWN"`` — never a slice of ``message``.
+    """
+    verb = message.split(" ", 1)[0].upper()
+    return _LOGGABLE_IRC_VERBS.get(verb, "UNKNOWN")
+
+
 class IRCBot:
     """
     Asynchronous IRC Bot implementation.
@@ -566,9 +612,9 @@ async def send_raw(self, message: str) -> None:
         if upper.startswith("PASS") or "IDENTIFY" in upper or "NICKSERV" in upper:
             logger.debug(">>> [REDACTED AUTH COMMAND]")
         else:
-            # Log only the IRC verb to avoid leaking message content.
-            verb = message.split(" ", 1)[0]
-            logger.debug(">>> %s ...", verb)
+            # Log a literal from a constant table, never a slice of the
+            # outgoing line — see _LOGGABLE_IRC_VERBS.
+            logger.debug(">>> %s ...", _loggable_verb(message))
 
     async def send_message(self, target: str, message: str) -> None:
         """
diff --git a/tests/test_irc.py b/tests/test_irc.py
index a294fb8..2f88941 100644
--- a/tests/test_irc.py
+++ b/tests/test_irc.py
@@ -95,3 +95,58 @@ def test_no_match(self, bot):
         assert match is None
         match = bot._pattern_after.search("unrelated message")
         assert match is None
+
+
+class TestLoggableVerb:
+    """`send_raw` must never write any slice of an outgoing line to the log.
+
+    Redacting auth commands and then logging `message.split(" ", 1)[0]`
+    leaves the logged value data-dependent on the line itself, which is why
+    this was reported three times (CodeQL alerts #1, #9, #12 — fixed,
+    dismissed, then raised again when the line moved). The logged label now
+    comes from a constant table, so no substring of an outgoing line can
+    reach the log regardless of what the redaction branch does.
+
+    Each test carries a NEGATIVE CONTROL asserting the old naive approach
+    DID echo the token, per the house style.
+    """
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _naive(message: str) -> str:
+        """The previous implementation, kept as the negative control."""
+        return message.split(" ", 1)[0]
+
+    def test_known_verb_maps_to_a_literal(self):
+        from avicbotwikimedia import _loggable_verb
+
+        assert _loggable_verb("PRIVMSG #chan :hello") == "PRIVMSG"
+        assert _loggable_verb("privmsg #chan :hello") == "PRIVMSG"
+
+    def test_unknown_verb_is_not_echoed(self):
+        from avicbotwikimedia import _loggable_verb
+
+        line = "SUPERSECRET hunter2"
+        # negative control: the old approach echoed the raw token
+        assert self._naive(line) == "SUPERSECRET"
+        assert _loggable_verb(line) == "UNKNOWN"
+
+    def test_auth_verbs_are_never_loggable(self):
+        from avicbotwikimedia import _loggable_verb
+
+        # Excluded from the table deliberately, so that even if the
+        # redaction branch in send_raw is later changed, these cannot leak.
+        for line in ("PASS hunter2", "NICKSERV IDENTIFY hunter2"):
+            assert self._naive(line) != "UNKNOWN"  # negative control
+            assert _loggable_verb(line) == "UNKNOWN"
+
+    def test_no_substring_of_the_line_survives(self):
+        from avicbotwikimedia import _LOGGABLE_IRC_VERBS, _loggable_verb
+
+        payload = "hunter2"
+        allowed = set(_LOGGABLE_IRC_VERBS.values()) | {"UNKNOWN"}
+        # negative control: a bare credential with no space leaked verbatim
+        assert self._naive(payload) == payload
+        for line in (f"PASS {payload}", f"WEIRD {payload}", payload):
+            out = _loggable_verb(line)
+            assert payload not in out
+            assert out in allowed