diff --git a/src/services/agent-action-explanation-card.ts b/src/services/agent-action-explanation-card.ts
index 2dfc728d0f..9230d0d1dc 100644
--- a/src/services/agent-action-explanation-card.ts
+++ b/src/services/agent-action-explanation-card.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ type AgentActionExplanationInput = Pick<
 
 const BLOCKER_CATEGORY_ORDER: AgentActionBlockerCategory[] = ["branch", "account", "queue", "scoreability", "risk", "maintainer", "unknown"];
 const PUBLIC_FORBIDDEN_PATTERN =
-  /\b(wallets?|hotkeys?|coldkeys?|seed phrases?|mnemonics?|raw[-_\s]?trust scores?|trust scores?|private reviewability|reviewability internals?|private scoreability|scoreability|projected scores?|score(?:d|s|ability)?|public score estimates?|estimated scores?|score estimates?|score previews?|reward estimates?|payouts?|farming|reward optimization|private rankings?)\b/gi;
+  /\b(wallets?|hotkeys?|coldkeys?|seed phrases?|mnemonics?|private keys?|raw[-_\s]?trust scores?|trust scores?|private reviewability|reviewability internals?|private scoreability|scoreability|projected scores?|score(?:d|s|ability)?|public score estimates?|estimated scores?|score estimates?|score previews?|reward estimates?|payouts?|farming|reward optimization|private rankings?)\b/gi;
 const PUBLIC_SCORE_DELTA_PATTERN = /\b(?:projected\s+)?score\w*(?:\s+\w+){0,4}\s+[-+]?\d+(?:\.\d+)?\s*->\s*[-+]?\d+(?:\.\d+)?\b/gi;
 // Token alternatives stay local; the local-path alternatives compose from the canonical PUBLIC_LOCAL_PATH_INLINE
 // in redaction.ts (adds the previously-missed /root/ and /var/, plus the forward-slash Windows form C:/Users/).
diff --git a/test/unit/agent-orchestrator.test.ts b/test/unit/agent-orchestrator.test.ts
index 19f8347c68..71b7c330ef 100644
--- a/test/unit/agent-orchestrator.test.ts
+++ b/test/unit/agent-orchestrator.test.ts
@@ -804,6 +804,24 @@ describe("agent orchestrator", () => {
     expect(card.publicSafe.summary).not.toMatch(/\/root\/work|\/var\/log|C:\/Users\/alice/);
   });
 
+  it("redacts 'private key' from the public-safe card, matching its sibling redaction lists (#8020)", () => {
+    // `private keys?` was present in 5 sibling public-redaction vocabularies (miner-dashboard-recommendations.ts:45,
+    // control-panel-roles.ts:297, decision-pack.ts:1438, weekly-value-report.ts:417, extension-contributor-context.ts:31)
+    // but missing here, so an App-credential reference leaked through publicSafe.whyNow unredacted.
+    const card = buildAgentActionExplanationCard({
+      actionType: "choose_next_work",
+      status: "blocked",
+      why: ["Blocked by a private key rotation on the App credential."],
+      blockedBy: ["private key rotation pending"],
+      publicSafeSummary: "Resolve the App private key rotation before rerunning.",
+      safetyClass: "private",
+    });
+
+    expect(card.publicSafe.summary).not.toMatch(/private key/i);
+    expect(card.publicSafe.summary).toMatch(/private context/);
+    expect(card.publicSafe.whyNow).not.toMatch(/private key/i);
+  });
+
   it("does not split a surrogate pair when truncating a card field at the 300-character cap", () => {
     // A string is well-formed UTF-16 iff it has no lone surrogate (a high surrogate not followed by a
     // low one, or a low surrogate not preceded by a high one). Equivalent to String#isWellFormed without