diff --git a/api/tests/test_secret_guard.py b/api/tests/test_secret_guard.py
index e7b2156..36aa3fb 100644
--- a/api/tests/test_secret_guard.py
+++ b/api/tests/test_secret_guard.py
@@ -146,3 +146,11 @@ def test_warn_kinds_do_not_block(monkeypatch):
     assert sg.status_for([f], True)[0] == "success"
     monkeypatch.setattr(sg, "WARN_KINDS", set())
     assert sg.status_for([f], True)[0] == "failure"
+
+
+def test_pypi_token_shape_hash_only():
+    tok = "pypi-AgE" + "Ab1_-" * 20  # synthetic
+    got = ss.find(f"password = {tok}")
+    assert [k for k, _ in got] == ["pypi token"] and got[0][1] == ss.h8(tok)
+    assert tok not in repr(got)
+    assert ss.find("pypi-AgE-too-short") == []
diff --git a/scripts/secret_shapes.py b/scripts/secret_shapes.py
index 533f9ba..d63efe5 100644
--- a/scripts/secret_shapes.py
+++ b/scripts/secret_shapes.py
@@ -23,13 +23,14 @@ PATTERNS: list[tuple[str, re.Pattern[str]]] = [
     ("twilio sid/api key", re.compile(r"\b(?:AC|SK)[0-9a-f]{32}\b")),
     ("32-hex secret assignment", re.compile(
         r"(?i)\b[a-z0-9_.-]*(?:token|secret|key|password)[a-z0-9_.-]*[\"']?\s*[:=]\s*[\"']?(?P<v>(?<![0-9a-f])[0-9a-f]{32}(?![0-9a-f]))")),
+    ("pypi token", re.compile(r"\bpypi-AgE[A-Za-z0-9_-]{50,}")),
     ("private key block", re.compile(r"-----BEGIN (?:RSA |EC |DSA |OPENSSH |ENCRYPTED )?PRIVATE KEY-----")),
 ]
 
 # git grep -E (POSIX ERE) prefilter: cheap superset of PATTERNS.
 PREFILTER = ("[0-9]{8,10}:[A-Za-z0-9_-]{35}|gh[pousr]_[A-Za-z0-9]{36}|github_pat_|(AKIA|ASIA)[0-9A-Z]{16}"
              "|xox[abprs]-|sk-ant-|sk-[A-Za-z0-9_-]{32}|sk-proj-|[rs]k_live_|AIza[0-9A-Za-z_-]{35}"
-             "|-----BEGIN [A-Z ]*PRIVATE KEY-----|(AC|SK)[0-9a-f]{32}|[0-9a-fA-F]{32}")
+             "|-----BEGIN [A-Z ]*PRIVATE KEY-----|(AC|SK)[0-9a-f]{32}|[0-9a-fA-F]{32}|pypi-AgE")
 
 
 def h8(value: str | bytes) -> str: