diff --git a/modules/audit-logger/audit.ts b/modules/audit-logger/audit.ts
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+// The audit handler — appends one line per event to an append-only audit log. It is the whole of
+// the module's code: an audit logger is not a privileged component, only a module that listens to
+// everything and writes it down (novox/hq ADR 0046).
+
+import { appendFile, mkdir } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { dirname } from "node:path";
+import type { Event } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/events";
+
+/** Where the trail is written. A directory the host applies; one file per node. */
+export function auditLogPath(env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv = process.env): string {
+  return env.AUDIT_LOG ?? "/var/lib/audit-logger/audit.log";
+}
+
+/** Append an event to the trail as one JSON line, keeping the metadata an audit needs first. */
+export async function record(event: Event, path: string): Promise<void> {
+  const line =
+    JSON.stringify({
+      id: event.type + "@" + event.at, // a stable-ish key until x-event-id headers land (ADR 0047)
+      type: event.type,
+      source: event.source,
+      node: event.node,
+      at: event.at,
+      body: event.body,
+    }) + "\n";
+  await mkdir(dirname(path), { recursive: true }).catch(() => {});
+  await appendFile(path, line, { mode: 0o600 });
+}
diff --git a/modules/audit-logger/index.ts b/modules/audit-logger/index.ts
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+// The audit-logger's entrypoint. The per-node module runtime imports this once the broker is
+// bound; the on("#") subscription is the whole handshake — it consumes every event on the mesh
+// (module.*, mesh.*, node.*) and writes each to the trail.
+
+import { on } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/events";
+import { auditLogPath, record } from "./audit.js";
+
+const path = auditLogPath();
+
+await on("#", async (event) => {
+  try {
+    await record(event, path);
+  } catch (err) {
+    // A failure to write the audit trail is worth a loud line, never a swallowed one — but it must
+    // not throw back into the broker and wedge the subscription.
+    console.error(`[audit-logger] could not record ${event.type}: ${err}`);
+  }
+});
+
+console.log(`[audit-logger] recording all mesh events to ${path}`);
diff --git a/modules/audit-logger/module.json b/modules/audit-logger/module.json
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+{
+  "module": "audit-logger",
+  "version": "1",
+  "consumes": [
+    "#"
+  ],
+  "resources": [
+    {
+      "id": "log",
+      "type": "directory",
+      "path": "/var/lib/audit-logger",
+      "mode": "0700"
+    }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/modules/audit-logger/package.json b/modules/audit-logger/package.json
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+{
+  "name": "@novox/module-audit-logger",
+  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "description": "audit-logger — records every event on the mesh (module, mesh and node) to an append-only trail.",
+  "type": "module",
+  "private": true,
+  "dependencies": {
+    "@novox/mesh-sdk": "^0.1.0"
+  },
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "@types/node": "^22.0.0",
+    "typescript": "^5.6.0"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/modules/audit-logger/test/audit.test.ts b/modules/audit-logger/test/audit.test.ts
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+import { test } from "node:test";
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { mkdtemp, readFile } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+
+import { useBroker } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/messaging";
+import { emit, on } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/events";
+import { record } from "../audit.ts";
+
+test("audit-logger records every event to the trail as one line each", async () => {
+  const broker = memBroker();
+  useBroker(() => broker);
+  const dir = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), "audit-"));
+  const path = join(dir, "audit.log");
+
+  // The audit-logger's whole behaviour: consume everything, record it.
+  await on("#", async (event) => record(event, path));
+
+  process.env.MESH_MODULE = "umami";
+  process.env.MESH_NODE = "anchor";
+  await emit("module.umami.site.created", { domain: "my-app" });
+  await emit("node.anchor.joined", { role: "worker" }); // a node event, not a module one
+
+  const lines = (await readFile(path, "utf8")).trim().split("\n").map((l) => JSON.parse(l));
+  assert.equal(lines.length, 2);
+  assert.deepEqual(lines.map((l) => l.type), ["module.umami.site.created", "node.anchor.joined"]);
+  assert.equal(lines[0].source, "umami");
+  assert.equal(lines[0].node, "anchor");
+  assert.equal(lines[0].body.domain, "my-app");
+
+  delete process.env.MESH_MODULE;
+  delete process.env.MESH_NODE;
+});
+
+function memBroker() {
+  const subs: { pattern: string; handler: (env: { key: string; node: string; body: unknown }) => Promise<void> }[] = [];
+  return {
+    async request() {
+      throw new Error("unused");
+    },
+    async handle() {
+      return () => {};
+    },
+    async publish<T>(env: { key: string; node: string; body: T }): Promise<void> {
+      for (const s of subs) if (match(s.pattern, env.key)) await s.handler(env);
+    },
+    async subscribe<T>(pattern: string, handler: (env: { key: string; node: string; body: T }) => Promise<void>): Promise<() => void> {
+      subs.push({ pattern, handler: handler as (env: { key: string; node: string; body: unknown }) => Promise<void> });
+      return () => {};
+    },
+    async close() {},
+  };
+}
+
+function match(pattern: string, key: string): boolean {
+  return pattern === "#" || pattern === key;
+}
diff --git a/modules/audit-logger/tsconfig.json b/modules/audit-logger/tsconfig.json
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+{
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "target": "ES2022",
+    "module": "NodeNext",
+    "moduleResolution": "NodeNext",
+    "strict": true,
+    "esModuleInterop": true,
+    "skipLibCheck": true,
+    "noEmit": true
+  },
+  "include": ["audit.ts", "index.ts"]
+}