diff --git a/packages/authz/src/audit.ts b/packages/authz/src/audit.ts
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+import type { AuthzScope } from "./types.ts";
+
+export interface AuthzAuditEvent {
+  subjectId?: string;
+  scope?: AuthzScope;
+  permission: string;
+  allowed: boolean;
+  reason?: string;
+  policy?: string;
+  /** Epoch milliseconds. */
+  at: number;
+}
+
+export interface AuthzAuditSink {
+  record(event: AuthzAuditEvent): void | Promise<void>;
+}
+
+export interface MemoryAuditSink extends AuthzAuditSink {
+  events: AuthzAuditEvent[];
+  clear(): void;
+}
+
+export function memoryAuditSink(): MemoryAuditSink {
+  const events: AuthzAuditEvent[] = [];
+  return {
+    events,
+    record: (event) => void events.push(event),
+    clear: () => void events.splice(0, events.length),
+  };
+}
+
+export function consoleAuditSink(): AuthzAuditSink {
+  return {
+    record(event) {
+      const verdict = event.allowed ? "allow" : "deny";
+      console.info(
+        `[wrnexus:authz] ${verdict} ${event.permission} subject=${event.subjectId ?? "anonymous"}` +
+          `${event.scope?.tenantId ? ` tenant=${event.scope.tenantId}` : ""}` +
+          `${event.reason ? ` reason=${event.reason}` : ""}`,
+      );
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+/** Record without ever letting a sink failure escape into the request path. */
+export function safeRecord(sink: AuthzAuditSink | undefined, event: AuthzAuditEvent): void {
+  if (!sink) return;
+  try {
+    const result = sink.record(event);
+    if (result instanceof Promise) {
+      result.catch((error) => console.warn("[wrnexus:authz] audit sink failed", error));
+    }
+  } catch (error) {
+    console.warn("[wrnexus:authz] audit sink failed", error);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/authz/test/audit.test.ts b/packages/authz/test/audit.test.ts
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+import { describe, expect, test } from "bun:test";
+import { memoryAuditSink, safeRecord } from "../src/audit.ts";
+
+describe("audit sink", () => {
+  test("memoryAuditSink collects events", () => {
+    const sink = memoryAuditSink();
+    sink.record({ permission: "post:read", allowed: true, at: 1 });
+    expect(sink.events).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(sink.events[0]!.permission).toBe("post:read");
+  });
+
+  test("safeRecord swallows sink failures", () => {
+    const exploding = {
+      record() {
+        throw new Error("sink is down");
+      },
+    };
+    // Auditing must never break a request.
+    expect(() => safeRecord(exploding, { permission: "p:x", allowed: false, at: 1 })).not.toThrow();
+  });
+
+  test("safeRecord swallows async sink rejections", async () => {
+    const rejecting = { record: async () => Promise.reject(new Error("later")) };
+    expect(() => safeRecord(rejecting, { permission: "p:x", allowed: false, at: 1 })).not.toThrow();
+    await Bun.sleep(1);
+  });
+
+  test("safeRecord tolerates an undefined sink", () => {
+    expect(() => safeRecord(undefined, { permission: "p:x", allowed: true, at: 1 })).not.toThrow();
+  });
+});