diff --git a/.github/ai-review/prefetch.sh b/.github/ai-review/prefetch.sh
index 3a19a3a87b..ff1ab79271 100755
--- a/.github/ai-review/prefetch.sh
+++ b/.github/ai-review/prefetch.sh
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 set -euo pipefail
 
 : "${PR_NUMBER:?PR_NUMBER required}"
-: "${REPO:?REPO required (e.g. opentensor/subtensor)}"
+: "${REPO:?REPO required (e.g. RaoFoundation/subtensor)}"
 : "${GH_TOKEN:?GH_TOKEN required (used here only — NOT passed to Codex)}"
 OUTPUT_DIR="${OUTPUT_DIR:-/tmp/ai-review-context}"
 
@@ -79,8 +79,47 @@ jq -r '.body // ""' "$OUTPUT_DIR/pr.json" > "$OUTPUT_DIR/pr-body.md"
 # Files changed (paths + per-file additions/deletions; full content lives in the diff)
 gh_retry gh pr view "$PR_NUMBER" --repo "$REPO" --json files > "$OUTPUT_DIR/pr-files.json"
 
-# Full unified diff
-gh_retry gh pr diff "$PR_NUMBER" --repo "$REPO" > "$OUTPUT_DIR/pr-diff.patch"
+# Full unified diff.
+#
+# `gh pr diff` hits the `.diff` media type, which GitHub hard-caps at 300
+# changed files: on a larger PR it returns HTTP 406 "diff exceeded the maximum
+# number of files" and no amount of retrying clears it. Since the Skeptic is a
+# required check, that would leave the gate permanently red on big PRs. So try
+# `gh pr diff` first (canonical output, correct for the common case) and fall
+# back to computing the same diff from the local PR checkout, which has no
+# file-count cap.
+reconstruct_diff_locally() {
+  # The Files API alternative is unsuitable: it omits `patch` for binary AND
+  # individually-oversized textual files, and a placeholder there would be a
+  # review blind spot (an attacker could oversize exactly the file they want
+  # unreviewed). Instead, produce the complete diff with local git: the
+  # workflow runs this script inside a fetch-depth-0 checkout of the PR head,
+  # so the merge base is already present and no network or credentials are
+  # needed (the checkout uses persist-credentials: false). Any failure aborts
+  # the script (set -e), so this fails closed — the personas never see a
+  # partial diff.
+  local head_sha base_ref merge_base
+  head_sha=$(jq -r '.headRefOid' "$OUTPUT_DIR/pr.json")
+  base_ref=$(jq -r '.baseRefName' "$OUTPUT_DIR/pr.json")
+
+  git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree >/dev/null \
+    || { echo "::error::not inside the PR checkout; cannot reconstruct diff" >&2; return 1; }
+  [ "$(git rev-parse HEAD)" = "$head_sha" ] \
+    || { echo "::error::checkout HEAD does not match PR head $head_sha; cannot reconstruct diff" >&2; return 1; }
+
+  merge_base=$(git merge-base "origin/$base_ref" "$head_sha") \
+    || { echo "::error::could not resolve merge base of origin/$base_ref and $head_sha" >&2; return 1; }
+  git diff "$merge_base" "$head_sha"
+}
+
+if _gh_retry_inner gh pr diff "$PR_NUMBER" --repo "$REPO" > "$OUTPUT_DIR/pr-diff.patch"; then
+  :
+else
+  echo "::warning::gh pr diff failed (likely >300 files / HTTP 406); reconstructing from the local checkout" >&2
+  cat /tmp/gh_retry.err >&2 2>/dev/null || true
+  rm -f /tmp/gh_retry.err
+  reconstruct_diff_locally > "$OUTPUT_DIR/pr-diff.patch"
+fi
 
 # All PR comments (issue-style). `--paginate` alone writes one JSON array per
 # page; `--slurp` wraps them as [[page1], [page2], ...]; we then flatten with
diff --git a/.github/workflows/cargo-audit.yml b/.github/workflows/cargo-audit.yml
index c706c8223e..dfdd45261d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cargo-audit.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cargo-audit.yml
@@ -1,51 +1,82 @@
-name: cargo audit
+name: Cargo Audit
+
 on:
   pull_request:
-    types:
-      - labeled
-      - unlabeled
-      - synchronize
-      - opened
+    types: [labeled, unlabeled, synchronize, opened]
+
 concurrency:
   group: cargo-audit-${{ github.ref }}
   cancel-in-progress: true
 
 jobs:
+  trusted-pr:
+    name: Trusted PR source (non-fork)
+    if: github.event_name != 'pull_request' || github.event.pull_request.head.repo.fork == false
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - run: echo "Non-fork PR; self-hosted runners may execute checkout."
+
   cargo-audit:
     name: cargo audit
+    needs: trusted-pr
     runs-on: [self-hosted, fireactions-light]
     if: ${{ !contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'skip-cargo-audit') }}
     steps:
-      - name: Check-out repositoroy under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive NEEDRESTART_MODE=a apt-get update
-          sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive NEEDRESTART_MODE=a apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" build-essential clang curl libssl-dev llvm libudev-dev protobuf-compiler pkg-config
-
-      - name: Install Rust
-        uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
-        with:
-          toolchain: stable
-
-      - name: Utilize Shared Rust Cache
-        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
+      - uses: ./.github/actions/rust-setup
         with:
-          key: cargo-audit
-          cache-on-failure: true
+          cache-key: cargo-audit
 
       - name: Install cargo-audit
         run: cargo install --force cargo-audit
 
-      - name: Display cargo-audit --version
-        run: cargo audit --version
-
       - name: cargo audit
+        # Each ignore is a known, accepted advisory; revisit when bumping
+        # polkadot-sdk since most originate in the patched fork's tree.
         run: |
+          # RUSTSEC-2026-0020/0021/0085..0096: wasmtime 8.0.1, pinned by the
+          #   polkadot-sdk fork's sc-executor; fixed only by a major SDK bump.
+          # RUSTSEC-2026-0098/0099/0104: rustls-webpki 0.101 via the fork's
+          #   libp2p networking stack.
+          # RUSTSEC-2026-0118/0119: hickory-proto via libp2p-dns (fork tree).
+          # RUSTSEC-2026-0204: crossbeam-epoch via the fork tree.
+          # RUSTSEC-2025-0137: ruint via the frontier/EVM fork tree.
+          # RUSTSEC-2025-0020 / RUSTSEC-2026-0177: pyo3 0.23 in py-sp-core;
+          #   ours — revisit when pyo3 >=0.29 is adopted.
+          # RUSTSEC-2026-0007/0009/0037/0049/0185: bytes/time/quinn-proto/
+          #   rustls-webpki duplicates only present in main's pre-monorepo
+          #   Cargo.lock; drop these once the consolidated lockfile lands.
           cargo audit --ignore RUSTSEC-2023-0091 \
                       --ignore RUSTSEC-2024-0438 \
                       --ignore RUSTSEC-2025-0009 \
                       --ignore RUSTSEC-2025-0055 \
                       --ignore RUSTSEC-2025-0073 \
-                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2025-0118
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2025-0118 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0020 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0021 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0085 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0086 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0087 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0088 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0089 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0091 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0092 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0093 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0094 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0095 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0096 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0098 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0099 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0104 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0118 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0119 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0204 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2025-0137 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2025-0020 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0177 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0007 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0009 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0037 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0049 \
+                      --ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0185