diff --git a/.github/workflows/attest-provenance.yml b/.github/workflows/attest-provenance.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5fd0757
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/attest-provenance.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+# Reusable: the SLSA build provenance of the files a caller's release built,
+# signed apart from the build (SLSA Build Level 3).
+#
+# The job runs none of the caller's code: it takes the caller's artifact as
+# data, on a runner of its own, and attests it with the steps below. Its
+# Sigstore certificate names this workflow as the signer, which only a job of
+# this file can get. A build step of the caller, even one that holds
+# id-token: write for something else, gets a certificate naming the caller's
+# own workflow, so a check that pins this workflow refuses what it signed:
+#
+#   gh attestation verify <file> --repo <owner>/<repo> \
+#     --signer-workflow IronFlock/workflows/.github/workflows/attest-provenance.yml \
+#     --source-ref refs/heads/main
+#
+# Everything in the provenance except the files' names and digests comes from
+# the job's OIDC token; SLSA lets the build supply those two. Call it after the
+# last step that changes the files, and before they are published.
+#
+# Container images have their own provenance (release-image.yml).
+#
+# Callers grant
+#   permissions: { contents: read, id-token: write, attestations: write }
+name: attest-provenance
+
+on:
+  workflow_call:
+    inputs:
+      artifact:
+        description: Name of the artifact of this workflow run that holds the files.
+        type: string
+        required: true
+      subject-path:
+        description: >-
+          The files to attest, one glob per line, relative to the root of the
+          artifact. Every line must match at least one file.
+        type: string
+        required: true
+      dry-run:
+        description: Check that the files are there and attest nothing (release pull requests).
+        type: boolean
+        default: false
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+defaults:
+  run:
+    shell: bash
+
+jobs:
+  attest:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 30
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+      id-token: write
+      attestations: write
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/download-artifact@9000827ccba6bdab643e8b6fd33ac0654aef8333 # v8.0.2
+        with:
+          name: ${{ inputs.artifact }}
+      - name: every pattern matches a file
+        env:
+          PATTERNS: ${{ inputs.subject-path }}
+        run: |
+          shopt -s nullglob
+          fail=0
+          while IFS= read -r pattern; do
+            [ -n "$pattern" ] || continue
+            # shellcheck disable=SC2206 # the pattern is there to be expanded
+            files=($pattern)
+            if [ "${#files[@]}" = 0 ]; then
+              echo "::error::no file matches $pattern"
+              fail=1
+              continue
+            fi
+            sha256sum -- "${files[@]}"
+          done <<<"$PATTERNS"
+          exit "$fail"
+      - name: attest the build provenance
+        if: ${{ !inputs.dry-run }}
+        uses: actions/attest@1e69f48acb82d1966a394da916b4c1698aa569d6 # v4.2.2
+        with:
+          subject-path: ${{ inputs.subject-path }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/selftest.yml b/.github/workflows/selftest.yml
index 5f5c3dc..c433ddf 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/selftest.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/selftest.yml
@@ -659,6 +659,33 @@ jobs:
           echo "environment claim: '$environment'"
           [ "$environment" = image-provenance ] || { echo "::error::no environment claim image-provenance with deployment: false; release-image.yml could not sign"; exit 1; }
 
+  # attest-provenance.yml as a dry run: a real one would write to the public
+  # transparency log on every pull request.
+  attest-fixture:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 5
+    steps:
+      - run: mkdir -p out/one && echo image > out/one/one.img.gz && echo bundle > out/one/one.raucb
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@cf430e030ddbb5b0abf93d22962f4752f3646cd9 # v7.0.2
+        with:
+          name: selftest-attest
+          path: out
+          retention-days: 1
+
+  attest-dry-run:
+    needs: [attest-fixture]
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/attest-provenance.yml
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+      id-token: write
+      attestations: write
+    with:
+      artifact: selftest-attest
+      subject-path: |
+        */*.img.gz
+        */*.raucb
+      dry-run: true
+
   assert-planted:
     needs: [security-planted, security-helm, security-rootfs, lint-planted]
     # Also when a scanner job broke: the counts then show what is missing.
@@ -716,7 +743,7 @@ jobs:
   # above succeeded (skipped or cancelled counts as failed).
   selftest-ok:
     if: ${{ always() }}
-    needs: [lint-self, lint-templates, lint-planted, scripts, gate-pass, gate-fail, node-gate-npm, node-gate-npm-tools, node-gate-bun, node-gate-fail, python-gate-pass, python-gate-fail, shell-gate-pass, shell-gate-artifact, shell-gate-fail, shell-gate-arm64, tools-arm64, security-clean, security-clean-node, security-planted, config-scan-skipped-chart, security-helm, security-rootfs, rootfs-scan-empty-tree, release-dry-run, release-dry-run-package-json, build-context-artifact, release-dry-run-build-context, release-dry-run-image-tag, assert-image-tag, provenance-sign, provenance-environment-claim, assert-planted]
+    needs: [lint-self, lint-templates, lint-planted, scripts, gate-pass, gate-fail, node-gate-npm, node-gate-npm-tools, node-gate-bun, node-gate-fail, python-gate-pass, python-gate-fail, shell-gate-pass, shell-gate-artifact, shell-gate-fail, shell-gate-arm64, tools-arm64, security-clean, security-clean-node, security-planted, config-scan-skipped-chart, security-helm, security-rootfs, rootfs-scan-empty-tree, release-dry-run, release-dry-run-package-json, build-context-artifact, release-dry-run-build-context, release-dry-run-image-tag, assert-image-tag, provenance-sign, provenance-environment-claim, attest-fixture, attest-dry-run, assert-planted]
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     timeout-minutes: 5
     steps:
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d8db291..46be758 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ The inputs of each workflow are documented in its `on.workflow_call` block.
 | [release-intent.yml](.github/workflows/release-intent.yml) | `intent` | the version file decides: a rise makes a release PR (title `release <name> <tag>` required), an unchanged version a no-release PR; output `kind` gates the release dry run; listed in the `needs` of `ci-ok` |
 | [release-image.yml](.github/workflows/release-image.yml) | `verify`, `build`, `publish` | release of a container image on the merge of a release PR into the protected `main`; native multi-arch build, SBOM attached, SLSA provenance signed with a Cloud KMS key and attached (see [Signed image provenance](#signed-image-provenance)), keyless push; on a release PR a dry run (every platform build, no push); re-runs are safe; read rights only; `build-contexts-artifact` hands data an earlier job prepared (with secrets the build must not see) to the build as named contexts |
 | [release-tag.yml](.github/workflows/release-tag.yml) | `tag` | the annotated git tag of a release, after every image job of the caller; a tag always means "in the registry"; written with a token of the release GitHub App from the caller's `release` environment |
+| [attest-provenance.yml](.github/workflows/attest-provenance.yml) | `attest` | SLSA Build Level 3 provenance of files a release built (disk images, bundles): signed by a job that runs none of the caller's code, under this workflow's identity; pin it with `gh attestation verify --signer-workflow` |
 | [selftest.yml](.github/workflows/selftest.yml) | — | proves the harness against [tests/fixtures](tests/fixtures) |
 
 A gate for chart repositories follows the same pattern and is added when the