diff --git a/ci/bundle.json b/ci/bundle.json
index d82dba8..f7c49ac 100644
--- a/ci/bundle.json
+++ b/ci/bundle.json
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
     "permSync.js",
     "raidableBases.js",
     "router",
+    "safety.js",
     "sidecarClient.js",
     "titleSync.js",
     "worldEvents.js"
diff --git a/ci/core-ref.json b/ci/core-ref.json
index 01a79f3..6c6f1a3 100644
--- a/ci/core-ref.json
+++ b/ci/core-ref.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
-  "$comment": "The core this module is proved against. MODULE_API.md §5.3: the frozen-manifest job clones RunicGateway/website at this exact ref, drops this module in as modules/rust and runs CORE's own routeManifest.js — nothing else can answer whether the URLs the module claims are the URLs it actually serves, because a mount prefix is a string in server/index.js and a documented path is a string in a JSON file, and whether those name the same URL is a fact about a running core. It also answers the blind spot phase 1 had to check by hand: core mounts several routes at the TIER ROOT (/status, /version), which the loader's collision probe cannot see, so /rust being free is asserted here by a core rather than by a reading. Pinned rather than tracking a branch on purpose: core moves for reasons that have nothing to do with this module, and a bump is then a deliberate commit saying which core the module was last proved against, instead of an unexplained red X on someone else's PR. Bump it, regenerate routes.manifest.json, and commit both together. This module needs MODULE_API 1.10.0 (module.json's coreApi is ^1.10.0), which the Event System cutover put on `main` — so unlike Module-uo, which spent the Event System window pinned to `edge`, this repo starts pinned to `main` and should stay there unless it comes to depend on a contract member that has not shipped yet. **2026-09-27, protocol 13 step 2:** this module calls ctx.events.expired (MODULE_API 1.11.0, PLAN_FIXES D183), so coreApi is ^1.11.0. It was pinned to website#209's branch head while that PR was open — a 1.10.0 core refuses to load it — and is back on `main` at the sha #209 merged as. **2026-10-12, protocol 14 (PLAN_REDESIGNS §2):** this module registers an event template and declares param durations, a lease value example and option notes (MODULE_API 1.13.0), so coreApi is ^1.13.0. It was pinned to website#212's branch head while that PR was open, and is back on `main` at the sha #212 merged as (the same tree). **2026-10-12, PLAN_REDESIGNS §12 (permission rewards):** this module declares a param with multiple: true (MODULE_API 1.14.0), so coreApi is ^1.14.0. It was pinned to website#213's branch head while that PR was open, and is back on `main` at the sha #213 merged as (the same tree). **2026-10-15, PLAN_REDESIGNS §14.3.4 (Dangerous Treasures):** the Start a Dangerous Treasures event step answers DT's warm-up with retryAfterMs (MODULE_API 1.15.0, D371), so coreApi is ^1.15.0, pinned to `main` at the sha website#215 merged as. **2026-10-19, Steam sign-in (PLAN_REDESIGNS §15, D392/D396):** this module registers onIdentityLinking and onIdentityLinked (MODULE_API 1.17.0), so coreApi is ^1.17.0. Pinned to the head of website feat/steam-signin while that PR is open — a 1.16.0 core refuses to load it — and is now on `edge` at the sha website#218 merged as. That is `edge`, not `main`, because #218 went into `edge` for the in-progress cutover. **2026-10-22, the cutover (PLAN_LAST_FIXES stage 6):** website#220 put `edge` on `main`, so this is back on `main` at the sha #220 merged as. That tree adds the last fixes' core half (website#219, no MODULE_API bump), whose only route changes are core's own event routes, so routes.manifest.json does not change. **2026-10-26, the public demo (DEMO_MODE.md §3.4, §3.5, DM18):** this module declares demoLocks, reads ctx.demoMode, registers onDemoSeed (MODULE_API 1.18.0) and gives its two console-command actions demoRefuses (1.19.0), so coreApi is ^1.19.0. It was pinned to the head of website feature/demo-step-refusal (website#224) while that PR was open — a 1.18.0 core never asks demoRefuses — and is back on `main` at the sha #224 merged as (the same tree, so routes.manifest.json does not change). **2026-10-30, account deletion (ACCOUNT_DELETION.md §4.4):** this module registers onUserDeleting (MODULE_API 1.20.0), so coreApi is ^1.20.0, pinned to `main` at the sha website#232 merged as.",
+  "$comment": "The core this module is proved against. MODULE_API.md §5.3: the frozen-manifest job clones RunicGateway/website at this exact ref, drops this module in as modules/rust and runs CORE's own routeManifest.js — nothing else can answer whether the URLs the module claims are the URLs it actually serves, because a mount prefix is a string in server/index.js and a documented path is a string in a JSON file, and whether those name the same URL is a fact about a running core. It also answers the blind spot phase 1 had to check by hand: core mounts several routes at the TIER ROOT (/status, /version), which the loader's collision probe cannot see, so /rust being free is asserted here by a core rather than by a reading. Pinned rather than tracking a branch on purpose: core moves for reasons that have nothing to do with this module, and a bump is then a deliberate commit saying which core the module was last proved against, instead of an unexplained red X on someone else's PR. Bump it, regenerate routes.manifest.json, and commit both together. This module needs MODULE_API 1.10.0 (module.json's coreApi is ^1.10.0), which the Event System cutover put on `main` — so unlike Module-uo, which spent the Event System window pinned to `edge`, this repo starts pinned to `main` and should stay there unless it comes to depend on a contract member that has not shipped yet. **2026-09-27, protocol 13 step 2:** this module calls ctx.events.expired (MODULE_API 1.11.0, PLAN_FIXES D183), so coreApi is ^1.11.0. It was pinned to website#209's branch head while that PR was open — a 1.10.0 core refuses to load it — and is back on `main` at the sha #209 merged as. **2026-10-12, protocol 14 (PLAN_REDESIGNS §2):** this module registers an event template and declares param durations, a lease value example and option notes (MODULE_API 1.13.0), so coreApi is ^1.13.0. It was pinned to website#212's branch head while that PR was open, and is back on `main` at the sha #212 merged as (the same tree). **2026-10-12, PLAN_REDESIGNS §12 (permission rewards):** this module declares a param with multiple: true (MODULE_API 1.14.0), so coreApi is ^1.14.0. It was pinned to website#213's branch head while that PR was open, and is back on `main` at the sha #213 merged as (the same tree). **2026-10-15, PLAN_REDESIGNS §14.3.4 (Dangerous Treasures):** the Start a Dangerous Treasures event step answers DT's warm-up with retryAfterMs (MODULE_API 1.15.0, D371), so coreApi is ^1.15.0, pinned to `main` at the sha website#215 merged as. **2026-10-19, Steam sign-in (PLAN_REDESIGNS §15, D392/D396):** this module registers onIdentityLinking and onIdentityLinked (MODULE_API 1.17.0), so coreApi is ^1.17.0. Pinned to the head of website feat/steam-signin while that PR is open — a 1.16.0 core refuses to load it — and is now on `edge` at the sha website#218 merged as. That is `edge`, not `main`, because #218 went into `edge` for the in-progress cutover. **2026-10-22, the cutover (PLAN_LAST_FIXES stage 6):** website#220 put `edge` on `main`, so this is back on `main` at the sha #220 merged as. That tree adds the last fixes' core half (website#219, no MODULE_API bump), whose only route changes are core's own event routes, so routes.manifest.json does not change. **2026-10-26, the public demo (DEMO_MODE.md §3.4, §3.5, DM18):** this module declares demoLocks, reads ctx.demoMode, registers onDemoSeed (MODULE_API 1.18.0) and gives its two console-command actions demoRefuses (1.19.0), so coreApi is ^1.19.0. It was pinned to the head of website feature/demo-step-refusal (website#224) while that PR was open — a 1.18.0 core never asks demoRefuses — and is back on `main` at the sha #224 merged as (the same tree, so routes.manifest.json does not change). **2026-10-30, account deletion (ACCOUNT_DELETION.md §4.4):** this module registers onUserDeleting (MODULE_API 1.20.0), so coreApi is ^1.20.0, pinned to `main` at the sha website#232 merged as. **2026-10-30, report, block and hide (USER_SAFETY.md §4.2):** this module registers a rust.chat report target and the steam game identity, and reads ctx.safety (MODULE_API 1.21.0), so coreApi is ^1.21.0, pinned to `main` at the sha website#233 merged as.",
   "repo": "https://gitea.whitlocktech.com/RunicGateway/website.git",
-  "ref": "7bd93b8bb0da734a642587f256d10c523ca39bea",
-  "refName": "website main @ website#232 merge, MODULE_API 1.20.0"
+  "ref": "f13b8fe1fec9dc330a985430b8bd4f67c9ec26c5",
+  "refName": "website main @ website#233 merge, MODULE_API 1.21.0"
 }
diff --git a/client/src/api.js b/client/src/api.js
index 66cf202..40d9a19 100644
--- a/client/src/api.js
+++ b/client/src/api.js
@@ -350,6 +350,21 @@ export const adminUserBackpacks = {
     req(`/admin/users/${encodeURIComponent(userId)}/rust/backpacks${query({ serverId, steamId })}`),
 }
 
+// ── report, block and hide (USER_SAFETY.md §4.2) ───────────────────────────
+// Core's routes, not this module's: the Reports queue, a member's blocks and
+// their "Hide for me" list are core's and hold for every module and the forum.
+// Each names an ITEM — `{ targetType: 'rust.chat', targetId }` — never a person;
+// core asks `server/safety.js` who said it. The last two are this module's own:
+// staff's hide for everyone, set and cleared where the line lives.
+export const safety = {
+  report: ({ targetType, targetId, reason, detail }) =>
+    req('/player/reports', { method: 'POST', body: { targetType, targetId, reason, detail } }),
+  block: ({ targetType, targetId }) => req('/auth/me/blocks', { method: 'POST', body: { targetType, targetId } }),
+  hide: ({ targetType, targetId }) => req('/auth/me/hidden', { method: 'POST', body: { targetType, targetId } }),
+  hideForEveryone: (lineId) => req(`/admin/rust/chat/${encodeURIComponent(lineId)}/hide`, { method: 'POST' }),
+  unhideForEveryone: (lineId) => req(`/admin/rust/chat/${encodeURIComponent(lineId)}/unhide`, { method: 'POST' }),
+}
+
 // ── core's public event calendar ───────────────────────────────────────────
 // The one CORE route this module reads, and core published `runId` on it for
 // exactly this: a map marker holds a run id and nothing else, and the calendar is
@@ -382,6 +397,7 @@ export default {
   adminUserPermissions,
   adminUserEconomics,
   adminUserBackpacks,
+  safety,
   coreEvents,
   BASE,
 }
diff --git a/client/src/components/ChatMenu.jsx b/client/src/components/ChatMenu.jsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7f2816d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/src/components/ChatMenu.jsx
@@ -0,0 +1,198 @@
+// ── A chat line's menu: report, hide, block (USER_SAFETY.md §4.2) ──────────
+//
+// One small button at the end of each chat line in the feed, opening a row of
+// actions under it. What it offers is `lib/safety.js`'s `chatActions`; what it
+// does is core's (report, block, Hide for me) or this module's admin route
+// (staff's hide for everyone). After anything that changes what the reader
+// sees, the feed is asked again: the server is what filters it (S11), so the
+// honest way to show a block is to re-read the feed, never to drop the line here.
+//
+// The wording follows core's forum menu, so a member reads one set of sentences
+// wherever they report or block from.
+
+import { useState } from 'react'
+import { Link } from 'react-router-dom'
+import { useAuth } from '../core.js'
+import api from '../api.js'
+import { CHAT_TARGET, REPORT_REASONS, chatActions } from '../lib/safety.js'
+
+export default function ChatMenu({ line, onChanged }) {
+  const { user } = useAuth()
+  const actions = chatActions(line, user)
+  const [mode, setMode] = useState('closed') // closed | open | report | block | done
+  const [reason, setReason] = useState('abuse')
+  const [detail, setDetail] = useState('')
+  const [message, setMessage] = useState(null)
+  const [error, setError] = useState(null)
+  const [busy, setBusy] = useState(false)
+
+  if (!actions) return null
+
+  // Every move between the menu's states drops the last error: a refusal from
+  // one action ("you have already reported this") is not about the next.
+  const go = (next) => { setError(null); setMode(next) }
+
+  const target = { targetType: CHAT_TARGET, targetId: line.id }
+  const name = (line.frame && line.frame.name) || 'this player'
+
+  const run = async (call, { refetch = true, done = null } = {}) => {
+    setBusy(true)
+    setError(null)
+    try {
+      await call()
+      if (done) {
+        setMessage(done)
+        setMode('done')
+      } else {
+        setMode('closed')
+      }
+      if (refetch) await onChanged()
+    } catch (err) {
+      setError(err.message || 'Could not do that')
+    } finally {
+      setBusy(false)
+    }
+  }
+
+  const toggle = (
+    <button
+      type="button"
+      onClick={() => { setError(null); setMode(mode === 'closed' ? 'open' : 'closed') }}
+      aria-label={`Actions for ${name}’s line`}
+      aria-expanded={mode !== 'closed'}
+      title="Report, hide or block"
+      style={toggleStyle}
+    >
+      ⋯
+    </button>
+  )
+
+  if (mode === 'closed') return toggle
+
+  return (
+    <>
+      {toggle}
+      <div className="sans" style={panelStyle}>
+        {mode === 'done' && <p style={noteStyle}>{message}</p>}
+
+        {mode === 'open' && actions.signIn && (
+          <p style={noteStyle}>
+            <Link to="/account/login" state={{ from: { pathname: window.location.pathname } }}>Sign in</Link>
+            {' '}to report or block.
+          </p>
+        )}
+
+        {mode === 'open' && !actions.signIn && (
+          <div style={{ display: 'flex', gap: 6, flexWrap: 'wrap' }}>
+            {actions.report && (
+              <button type="button" className="pill" onClick={() => go('report')}>Report</button>
+            )}
+            {actions.hide && (
+              <button type="button" className="pill" disabled={busy} onClick={() => run(() => api.safety.hide(target))}>
+                Hide for me
+              </button>
+            )}
+            {actions.block && (
+              <button type="button" className="pill" onClick={() => go('block')}>Block player</button>
+            )}
+            {actions.staff === 'hide' && (
+              <button type="button" className="pill" disabled={busy} onClick={() => run(() => api.safety.hideForEveryone(line.id))}>
+                Hide for everyone
+              </button>
+            )}
+            {actions.staff === 'unhide' && (
+              <button type="button" className="pill" disabled={busy} onClick={() => run(() => api.safety.unhideForEveryone(line.id))}>
+                Show to everyone again
+              </button>
+            )}
+          </div>
+        )}
+
+        {mode === 'report' && (
+          <form
+            onSubmit={(e) => {
+              e.preventDefault()
+              run(() => api.safety.report({ ...target, reason, detail: detail || undefined }), {
+                refetch: false,
+                done: 'Reported to site staff.',
+              })
+            }}
+            style={{ display: 'grid', gap: 8 }}
+          >
+            {/* A report changes nothing about the line, and says so: a member who
+                expects it to vanish and watches it stay will report it again. */}
+            <p style={noteStyle}>
+              This goes to <strong>site staff</strong>. Reporting does not hide or change anything — it asks a
+              staffer to look.
+            </p>
+            <label style={{ fontSize: '0.85rem' }}>
+              Reason
+              {' '}
+              <select className="input" value={reason} onChange={(e) => setReason(e.target.value)}>
+                {REPORT_REASONS.map(([value, text]) => (
+                  <option key={value} value={value}>{text}</option>
+                ))}
+              </select>
+            </label>
+            <textarea
+              className="textarea"
+              value={detail}
+              onChange={(e) => setDetail(e.target.value)}
+              placeholder="Anything a staffer should know (optional)"
+              maxLength={500}
+              rows={3}
+            />
+            <div style={{ display: 'flex', gap: 8 }}>
+              <button type="submit" className="btn btn-primary btn-sq" disabled={busy}>Send report</button>
+              <button type="button" className="pill" onClick={() => go('open')}>Cancel</button>
+            </div>
+          </form>
+        )}
+
+        {mode === 'block' && (
+          <div style={{ display: 'grid', gap: 8 }}>
+            {/* S9: the blocked player is not told, and a member deciding whether
+                to block is usually deciding whether it will start something. */}
+            <p style={noteStyle}>
+              Block <strong>{name}</strong>? You won&rsquo;t see anything they write, here or in the app. They
+              aren&rsquo;t told. You can undo it from <em>Account → Blocked</em>.
+            </p>
+            <div style={{ display: 'flex', gap: 8 }}>
+              <button type="button" className="btn btn-primary btn-sq" disabled={busy} onClick={() => run(() => api.safety.block(target))}>
+                Block
+              </button>
+              <button type="button" className="pill" onClick={() => go('open')}>Cancel</button>
+            </div>
+          </div>
+        )}
+
+        {error && <p style={{ ...noteStyle, color: 'var(--danger, crimson)' }}>{error}</p>}
+      </div>
+    </>
+  )
+}
+
+const toggleStyle = {
+  flex: 'none',
+  marginLeft: 'auto',
+  background: 'transparent',
+  border: 0,
+  color: 'var(--dim)',
+  cursor: 'pointer',
+  fontSize: '1rem',
+  lineHeight: 1,
+  padding: '0 4px',
+}
+
+const panelStyle = {
+  flexBasis: '100%',
+  display: 'grid',
+  gap: 8,
+  marginTop: 6,
+  padding: 10,
+  border: '1px solid var(--line)',
+  borderRadius: 6,
+  fontSize: '0.85rem',
+}
+
+const noteStyle = { margin: 0, fontSize: '0.82rem', color: 'var(--muted)' }
diff --git a/client/src/components/Feed.jsx b/client/src/components/Feed.jsx
index 62618c6..6b3543a 100644
--- a/client/src/components/Feed.jsx
+++ b/client/src/components/Feed.jsx
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 
 import { ErrorState, Loading } from '../core.js'
 import Empty from './Empty.jsx'
+import ChatMenu from './ChatMenu.jsx'
 import { describe, FILTERS, kindsFor } from '../lib/feed.js'
 import { ago, clock } from '../lib/format.js'
 import usePolled from '../hooks/usePolled.js'
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ const TONE = {
 export default function Feed({ serverId, wipeId, filter, onFilter }) {
   const kinds = kindsFor(filter)
 
-  const { data, error, loading, at } = usePolled(
+  const { data, error, loading, at, refresh } = usePolled(
     () => api.servers.events(serverId, { kinds, wipe: wipeId, limit: 100 }),
     // The key is the QUESTION. Changing server, wipe or filter blanks the rows,
     // because what is on screen is an answer to a different one; a poll tick
@@ -111,10 +112,14 @@ export default function Feed({ serverId, wipeId, filter, onFilter }) {
                 key={event.id}
                 style={{
                   display: 'flex',
+                  flexWrap: 'wrap',
                   gap: 12,
                   alignItems: 'baseline',
                   padding: '7px 0',
                   borderBottom: '1px solid var(--line-soft, var(--line))',
+                  // Staff's hidden line (S10): only staff ever get one, dimmed
+                  // and marked so the hide can be checked and undone here.
+                  opacity: event.hidden ? 0.6 : 1,
                 }}
               >
                 <time
@@ -137,7 +142,17 @@ export default function Feed({ serverId, wipeId, filter, onFilter }) {
                       {line.detail}
                     </span>
                   )}
+                  {event.hidden && (
+                    <span className="sans" style={{ color: 'var(--mode-maint, #e6c26a)', fontSize: '0.74rem' }}>
+                      {' · '}
+                      Hidden by staff
+                    </span>
+                  )}
                 </span>
+                {/* Report, Hide for me, Block player, and staff's Hide for
+                    everyone (USER_SAFETY.md §4.2). The server filtered the feed
+                    for this reader, so after any of them the feed is re-read. */}
+                <ChatMenu line={event} onChanged={refresh} />
               </li>
             )
           })}
diff --git a/client/src/lib/safety.js b/client/src/lib/safety.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6d7d927
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/src/lib/safety.js
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+// ── Report, block and hide on a chat line: what the menu offers ────────────
+//
+// USER_SAFETY.md §4.2. Nothing here decides what a reader may SEE — the server
+// already left out what they blocked or hid, and staff's hidden lines for
+// everybody else (S11). This file only turns what the server said about a line
+// into which buttons its menu shows, and it is pure so a DOM-less runner can ask
+// all of it.
+
+/** The report target a chat line is filed as. Registered by `server/safety.js`. */
+export const CHAT_TARGET = 'rust.chat'
+
+/**
+ * The reasons a report can give. Core's `content_reports.reason` enum, in the
+ * order and words core's own forum report uses, so a member reads one list
+ * wherever they report from.
+ */
+export const REPORT_REASONS = Object.freeze([
+  ['abuse', 'Abusive or harassing'],
+  ['spam', 'Spam'],
+  ['sexual', 'Sexual content'],
+  ['illegal', 'Illegal content'],
+  ['impersonation', 'Impersonation'],
+  ['other', 'Something else'],
+])
+
+/**
+ * The roles that hide a line for everyone: the two core's Reports queue is open
+ * to, and the two `POST /admin/rust/chat/:id/hide` admits. An editor writes
+ * content and moderates none.
+ */
+export const HIDE_ROLES = Object.freeze(['admin', 'moderator'])
+
+/**
+ * What a chat line's menu offers this reader.
+ *
+ *   signIn   a signed-out reader gets one line telling them to sign in (S6)
+ *   report   any signed-in reader, on any line
+ *   hide     "Hide for me", likewise — a staff member's line included (S8)
+ *   block    only where the server said `canBlock` (S8, S13)
+ *   staff    'hide' or 'unhide' for a reader who can hide for everyone (S10)
+ *
+ * @param {{ kind: string, canBlock?: boolean, hidden?: boolean }} line
+ * @param {{ role?: string } | null} user
+ */
+export function chatActions(line, user) {
+  if (!line || line.kind !== 'player.chat') return null
+  if (!user) return { signIn: true, report: false, hide: false, block: false, staff: null }
+  const canHideForAll = HIDE_ROLES.includes(user.role)
+  return {
+    signIn: false,
+    report: true,
+    hide: true,
+    block: line.canBlock === true,
+    staff: canHideForAll ? (line.hidden ? 'unhide' : 'hide') : null,
+  }
+}
diff --git a/client/test/safety.test.js b/client/test/safety.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f54250f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/test/safety.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+// ── A chat line's menu (USER_SAFETY.md §4.2) ───────────────────────────────
+//
+// The server decides what a reader sees and whether a line's speaker can be
+// blocked; this asks that the menu shows exactly what it said, and nothing a
+// signed-out reader could use.
+
+import test from 'node:test'
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict'
+
+import { CHAT_TARGET, HIDE_ROLES, REPORT_REASONS, chatActions } from '../src/lib/safety.js'
+
+const chat = (extra = {}) => ({ id: 1, kind: 'player.chat', steamId: '7656', frame: { name: 'Rusty', message: 'gg' }, ...extra })
+
+test('the target is the one the server registers', () => {
+  assert.equal(CHAT_TARGET, 'rust.chat')
+})
+
+test('the six reasons are core’s report enum', () => {
+  assert.deepEqual(REPORT_REASONS.map(([value]) => value).sort(), ['abuse', 'illegal', 'impersonation', 'other', 'sexual', 'spam'])
+  assert.ok(REPORT_REASONS.every(([, label]) => typeof label === 'string' && label.length > 0))
+})
+
+test('a signed-out reader is told to sign in, and offered nothing else (S6)', () => {
+  assert.deepEqual(chatActions(chat({ canBlock: true }), null), { signIn: true, report: false, hide: false, block: false, staff: null })
+})
+
+test('a member can report and hide any line, and block only where the server said so', () => {
+  const member = { role: 'player' }
+  assert.deepEqual(chatActions(chat({ canBlock: true }), member), { signIn: false, report: true, hide: true, block: true, staff: null })
+  assert.equal(chatActions(chat({ canBlock: false }), member).block, false)
+  // A line with no word from the server is not blockable.
+  assert.equal(chatActions(chat(), member).block, false)
+})
+
+test('admins and moderators can hide for everyone, and undo it; editors cannot', () => {
+  assert.deepEqual([...HIDE_ROLES].sort(), ['admin', 'moderator'])
+  assert.equal(chatActions(chat(), { role: 'moderator' }).staff, 'hide')
+  assert.equal(chatActions(chat({ hidden: true }), { role: 'admin' }).staff, 'unhide')
+  assert.equal(chatActions(chat(), { role: 'editor' }).staff, null)
+})
+
+test('only chat lines have a menu', () => {
+  assert.equal(chatActions({ id: 2, kind: 'player.death' }, { role: 'player' }), null)
+  assert.equal(chatActions(null, { role: 'player' }), null)
+})
diff --git a/module.json b/module.json
index 45d57fa..c4f0b6b 100644
--- a/module.json
+++ b/module.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "id": "rust",
   "name": "Rust",
   "version": "0.1.0",
-  "coreApi": "^1.20.0",
+  "coreApi": "^1.21.0",
   "server": "server/index.js",
   "client": { "entry": "client/dist/entry.js" },
   "schema": "server/db/schema.sql",
diff --git a/routes.manifest.json b/routes.manifest.json
index c3fd4fc..0dd2998 100644
--- a/routes.manifest.json
+++ b/routes.manifest.json
@@ -251,6 +251,16 @@
       "path": "/api/v1/admin/rust/permissions/groups/:id",
       "tier": "public"
     },
+    {
+      "method": "POST",
+      "path": "/api/v1/admin/rust/chat/:id/hide",
+      "tier": "public"
+    },
+    {
+      "method": "POST",
+      "path": "/api/v1/admin/rust/chat/:id/unhide",
+      "tier": "public"
+    },
     {
       "method": "POST",
       "path": "/api/v1/admin/rust/config/:serverId/file",
diff --git a/server/core.js b/server/core.js
index 1b7d894..9784d08 100644
--- a/server/core.js
+++ b/server/core.js
@@ -175,6 +175,18 @@ module.exports = {
     pushActivity: (items) => need().teams.activity.push(items),
   },
 
+  // Report, block and hide (MODULE_API.md §2.3, 1.21.0; USER_SAFETY.md S11, S13).
+  // Read only, both of them. `forViewer(userId)` is what one reader has blocked
+  // and hidden that touches this module — the accounts they block (already
+  // checked against staff, S8, and with linked Steam blocks already turned into
+  // account blocks, S14), this module's own unlinked Steam blocks, and their hides
+  // on `rust.chat`. `staffAmong(userIds)` is which accounts are staff, for a chat
+  // line's `canBlock`. Wrapped as calls, like `emit`. See `safety.js`.
+  safety: {
+    forViewer: (userId) => need().safety.forViewer(userId),
+    staffAmong: (userIds) => need().safety.staffAmong(userIds),
+  },
+
   // Deployment facts. `moduleRoot` is the absolute path to `modules/<id>/` — the
   // only correct way to find a file you shipped, because the working directory is
   // core's and the module's location is the loader's business.
diff --git a/server/db/schema.sql b/server/db/schema.sql
index ebd0fb0..aba1813 100644
--- a/server/db/schema.sql
+++ b/server/db/schema.sql
@@ -246,6 +246,18 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS rust_events (
   KEY idx_rust_events_created (created_at)
 );
 
+-- Staff's "Hide for everyone" on a chat line (USER_SAFETY.md §4.2, S10). Set from
+-- core's Reports queue or from the line's own menu, and cleared from that menu.
+-- A hidden line is left out of the feed for everybody but staff, who still get it,
+-- marked, so a hide can be checked and undone where it lives. The row is kept, and
+-- the retention sweep prunes it like any other.
+--
+-- `hidden_by` is the staff account's id, with no foreign key: the hide stays a
+-- hide when the account that made it is deleted, and nothing reads it back as a
+-- person. ALTER rather than columns above, so an existing install gets them too.
+ALTER TABLE rust_events ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS hidden_at DATETIME NULL;
+ALTER TABLE rust_events ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS hidden_by INT NULL;
+
 
 -- ── Who is on right now ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
 --
diff --git a/server/index.js b/server/index.js
index ba86f63..24d8038 100644
--- a/server/index.js
+++ b/server/index.js
@@ -175,6 +175,16 @@ module.exports = function register(ctx, api) {
   // deletion, and never waits on a game.
   api.onUserDeleting(links.unlinkForDeletion)
 
+  // Report, block and hide (MODULE_API 1.21.0; USER_SAFETY.md §4.2). A chat line
+  // is a `rust.chat` report target: core files the report and keeps the queue,
+  // and asks this module what a line is, for one reader, and to hide it for
+  // everyone. A speaker is known by their Steam id, and `steam` says which
+  // website account one is linked to, so a block lands on the account first
+  // (S12). The feed's own filtering and `canBlock` are in the events route.
+  const safety = require('./safety') // eslint-disable-line global-require
+  api.registerReportTargets(safety.REPORT_TARGETS)
+  api.registerGameIdentities(safety.GAME_IDENTITIES)
+
   // The public demo's seed (MODULE_API 1.18.0, DM15): the rig's server row and
   // demo-player's Steam link, written by this module from its part of the
   // fixture. Called only by `npm run seed:demo` on a DEMO_MODE deployment. The
@@ -255,6 +265,7 @@ module.exports = function register(ctx, api) {
     budgets: eventWorld.BUDGETS.length + eventRewards.BUDGETS.length + eventPermRewards.BUDGETS.length + eventWorldCall.BUDGETS.length + eventDangerousTreasures.BUDGETS.length + eventGuardedCrate.BUDGETS.length + eventCommands.BUDGETS.length + eventRaidableBases.BUDGETS.length,
     announceLeg: eventRewards.LEG.leg,
     commands: commands.map((cmd) => cmd.name).join(' '),
+    reportTargets: safety.REPORT_TARGETS.map((t) => t.id).join(' '),
     optionSources: eventLeases.OPTION_SOURCES.length + eventWorld.OPTION_SOURCES.length + eventRewards.OPTION_SOURCES.length + eventPermRewards.OPTION_SOURCES.length + eventWorldCall.OPTION_SOURCES.length + eventDangerousTreasures.OPTION_SOURCES.length + eventGuardedCrate.OPTION_SOURCES.length + eventRaidableBases.OPTION_SOURCES.length,
   })
 }
diff --git a/server/model/events/events.db.js b/server/model/events/events.db.js
index 1e51b7a..05256a9 100644
--- a/server/model/events/events.db.js
+++ b/server/model/events/events.db.js
@@ -312,13 +312,14 @@ async function pruneEvents(days) {
  * every time; `events.model.js` builds the list from the catalogue's allowlist
  * and an empty list answers with no rows rather than with everything.
  */
-async function recentEvents({ serverId, kinds, wipeId = null, limit = 50 }) {
+async function recentEvents({ serverId, kinds, wipeId = null, limit = 50, chat = {} }) {
   if (!Array.isArray(kinds) || kinds.length === 0) return []
 
   const holes = kinds.map(() => '?').join(', ')
   const params = [serverId, ...kinds]
 
-  let sql = `SELECT id, server_id AS serverId, wipe_id AS wipeId, kind, t, steam_id AS steamId, raw
+  let sql = `SELECT id, server_id AS serverId, wipe_id AS wipeId, kind, t, steam_id AS steamId, raw,
+                    hidden_at AS hiddenAt
                FROM ${EVENTS}
               WHERE server_id = ? AND kind IN (${holes})`
 
@@ -327,12 +328,53 @@ async function recentEvents({ serverId, kinds, wipeId = null, limit = 50 }) {
     params.push(wipeId)
   }
 
+  // What this reader does not get of the chat (USER_SAFETY.md §4.2), left out in
+  // the query rather than after it, so a page of 100 is still 100 lines long.
+  // Only `player.chat` rows: a block hides what someone SAYS, not that they died.
+  if (!chat.showHidden) sql += ` AND NOT (kind = 'player.chat' AND hidden_at IS NOT NULL)`
+  if (chat.steamIds && chat.steamIds.length) {
+    sql += ` AND NOT (kind = 'player.chat' AND steam_id IN (${chat.steamIds.map(() => '?').join(', ')}))`
+    params.push(...chat.steamIds)
+  }
+  if (chat.ids && chat.ids.length) {
+    sql += ` AND NOT (kind = 'player.chat' AND id IN (${chat.ids.map(() => '?').join(', ')}))`
+    params.push(...chat.ids)
+  }
+
   sql += ' ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT ?'
   params.push(limit)
 
   return core.query(sql, params)
 }
 
+/** One chat line by id, or null: the report target `rust.chat` (USER_SAFETY.md §4.2). */
+async function chatLineById(id) {
+  const rows = await core.query(
+    `SELECT id, server_id AS serverId, wipe_id AS wipeId, t, steam_id AS steamId, raw,
+            hidden_at AS hiddenAt
+       FROM ${EVENTS}
+      WHERE id = ? AND kind = 'player.chat'`,
+    [id],
+  )
+  return rows[0] || null
+}
+
+/**
+ * Staff's hide for everyone, or its undo. A line already hidden keeps its first
+ * hide's time and author: the second click of two changes nothing. Whether the
+ * line exists is the caller's to ask first — `affectedRows` on an UPDATE that
+ * changes nothing depends on a driver flag.
+ */
+async function setChatHidden(id, hidden, by = null) {
+  await core.query(
+    hidden
+      ? `UPDATE ${EVENTS} SET hidden_at = COALESCE(hidden_at, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP), hidden_by = COALESCE(hidden_by, ?)
+          WHERE id = ? AND kind = 'player.chat'`
+      : `UPDATE ${EVENTS} SET hidden_at = NULL, hidden_by = NULL WHERE id = ? AND kind = 'player.chat'`,
+    hidden ? [by, id] : [id],
+  )
+}
+
 /**
  * The leaderboard for one wipe, or across every wipe when `wipeId` is null.
  *
@@ -473,6 +515,8 @@ module.exports = {
   replacePresence,
   pruneEvents,
   recentEvents,
+  chatLineById,
+  setChatHidden,
   leaderboard,
   listWipes,
   presenceFor,
diff --git a/server/model/events/events.model.js b/server/model/events/events.model.js
index cd682c3..41d0f4d 100644
--- a/server/model/events/events.model.js
+++ b/server/model/events/events.model.js
@@ -59,18 +59,27 @@ function parseKinds(raw) {
  * refused: naming it in an error would confirm the kind exists, which is a small
  * thing to leak and a free one to avoid.
  */
-async function recent({ serverId, admin = false, staff = false, presence = false, kind = null, wipeId = null, limit }) {
+async function recent({ serverId, admin = false, staff = false, presence = false, kind = null, wipeId = null, limit, chat = {} }) {
   const kinds = catalogue.kindsFor({ admin, presence, requested: parseKinds(kind) })
 
   // Every requested kind was refused. Answering with an empty list is right —
   // the events they asked for are, as far as they are concerned, not there.
   if (kinds.length === 0) return []
 
+  // `chat` is this reader's part of the chat (`safety.js`, USER_SAFETY.md §4.2):
+  // the Steam ids whose lines they do not get, the lines they hid, and whether a
+  // line staff hid for everyone is still theirs to see. Its default is the
+  // narrow one — a hidden line is left out unless a caller says otherwise.
   const rows = await db.recentEvents({
     serverId,
     kinds,
     wipeId,
     limit: boundedLimit(limit),
+    chat: {
+      showHidden: Boolean(chat.showHidden),
+      steamIds: Array.isArray(chat.steamIds) ? chat.steamIds : [],
+      ids: Array.isArray(chat.ids) ? chat.ids : [],
+    },
   })
 
   const shaped = rows.map(shape)
@@ -170,6 +179,9 @@ function shape(row) {
     wipeId: row.wipeId || null,
     steamId: row.steamId || null,
     frame,
+    // Staff hid this line for everyone (S10). Only staff's reads ever hold one,
+    // and they get it marked so the hide can be checked and undone.
+    ...(row.hiddenAt ? { hidden: true } : {}),
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/server/model/links/links.db.js b/server/model/links/links.db.js
index ed0498c..3e1f8b3 100644
--- a/server/model/links/links.db.js
+++ b/server/model/links/links.db.js
@@ -166,6 +166,18 @@ async function userIdsForSteamIds(steamIds) {
   )
 }
 
+/**
+ * The other direction: every Steam id these website accounts hold. A chat line
+ * is filed under a Steam id, so a block on an account (USER_SAFETY.md S12) hides
+ * the lines of every Steam id that account links.
+ */
+async function steamIdsForUsers(userIds) {
+  if (!userIds.length) return []
+  const marks = userIds.map(() => '?').join(', ')
+  const rows = await core.query(`SELECT steam_id AS steamId FROM ${LINKS} WHERE user_id IN (${marks})`, userIds)
+  return rows.map((r) => String(r.steamId))
+}
+
 /**
  * The linked players of one server: every linked Steam account that has played
  * there, in any wipe (PLAN_REDESIGNS.md §2.5, the kit weekend's `linked`).
@@ -217,5 +229,6 @@ module.exports = {
   removeBySteamId,
   statsForSteamId,
   userIdsForSteamIds,
+  steamIdsForUsers,
   linkedOnServer,
 }
diff --git a/server/model/visibility/visibility.model.js b/server/model/visibility/visibility.model.js
index 91dab02..e775a35 100644
--- a/server/model/visibility/visibility.model.js
+++ b/server/model/visibility/visibility.model.js
@@ -103,17 +103,31 @@ async function viewerLevel(req) {
  * decided the rung: a banned account is nobody, whatever its token names.
  */
 async function viewer(req) {
-  const nobody = { level: 'public', userId: null }
   try {
     const claimed = req.user || core.auth.getUserFromRequest(req)
-    if (!claimed || claimed.id == null) return nobody
+    if (!claimed || claimed.id == null) return { level: 'public', userId: null }
+    return await viewerById(claimed.id)
+  } catch (err) {
+    log.warn('could not resolve the viewer; treating them as anonymous', { error: err.message })
+    return { level: 'public', userId: null }
+  }
+}
 
-    const user = await core.users.getById(claimed.id)
+/**
+ * The same re-read, for a caller that has an account id and no request: core's
+ * report-target `snapshot`, which is handed `viewer.userId` (USER_SAFETY.md
+ * §4.2). The role core passes beside it is the session's; this reads the row.
+ */
+async function viewerById(userId) {
+  const nobody = { level: 'public', userId: null }
+  if (userId == null) return nobody
+  try {
+    const user = await core.users.getById(userId)
     if (!user) return nobody
     if (user.status && user.status !== 'active') return nobody
 
     const level = user.role === 'admin' || user.role === 'moderator' ? 'staff' : 'signed_in'
-    return { level, userId: user.id != null ? user.id : claimed.id }
+    return { level, userId: user.id != null ? user.id : userId }
   } catch (err) {
     log.warn('could not resolve the viewer; treating them as anonymous', { error: err.message })
     return nobody
@@ -154,11 +168,22 @@ async function presenceFor(serverId) {
  */
 async function canSeePresence(req, serverId) {
   try {
-    const [level, required] = await Promise.all([viewerLevel(req), presenceFor(serverId)])
-    return { visible: meets(level, required), level, required }
+    const [who, required] = await Promise.all([viewer(req), presenceFor(serverId)])
+    return { visible: meets(who.level, required), level: who.level, required, userId: who.userId }
   } catch (err) {
     log.warn('could not resolve presence visibility; withholding it', { server: serverId, error: err.message })
-    return { visible: false, level: 'public', required: DEFAULT_PRESENCE }
+    return { visible: false, level: 'public', required: DEFAULT_PRESENCE, userId: null }
+  }
+}
+
+/** `canSeePresence` for an account id rather than a request (a report's snapshot). */
+async function canSeePresenceAs(userId, serverId) {
+  try {
+    const [who, required] = await Promise.all([viewerById(userId), presenceFor(serverId)])
+    return { visible: meets(who.level, required), level: who.level, required, userId: who.userId }
+  } catch (err) {
+    log.warn('could not resolve presence visibility; withholding it', { server: serverId, error: err.message })
+    return { visible: false, level: 'public', required: DEFAULT_PRESENCE, userId: null }
   }
 }
 
@@ -314,9 +339,11 @@ module.exports = {
   normalise,
   viewerLevel,
   viewer,
+  viewerById,
   fleetPresence,
   presenceFor,
   canSeePresence,
+  canSeePresenceAs,
   describe,
   update,
 }
diff --git a/server/router/admin/rust.controller.js b/server/router/admin/rust.controller.js
index c2ddc55..02f86b4 100644
--- a/server/router/admin/rust.controller.js
+++ b/server/router/admin/rust.controller.js
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 const core = require('../../core')
 
 const db = require('../../model/servers/servers.db')
+const eventsDb = require('../../model/events/events.db')
 const mapImages = require('../../mapImages')
 const nextWipe = require('../../model/servers/nextWipe')
 const servers = require('../../model/servers/servers.model')
@@ -379,7 +380,40 @@ async function putVoice(req, res) {
   }
 }
 
+/**
+ * Staff's hide for everyone on one chat line, and its undo, from the line's own
+ * menu in the feed (USER_SAFETY.md §1, S10). Core's Reports queue hides through
+ * `safety.js`'s registered `hide`; this is the same flag set where the line
+ * lives, and the only place it is cleared, since staff still see a hidden line
+ * there, marked.
+ */
+function chatHidden(hidden) {
+  return async function setChatHidden(req, res) {
+    const id = Number(req.params.id)
+    try {
+      const line = await eventsDb.chatLineById(id)
+      if (!line) return res.status(404).json({ message: 'No such chat line' })
+
+      await eventsDb.setChatHidden(id, hidden, req.user ? req.user.id : null)
+      await core.activity.log({
+        req,
+        action: hidden ? 'rust.chat.hide' : 'rust.chat.unhide',
+        detail: { line: id, server: line.serverId, steamId: line.steamId || null },
+      })
+      return res.status(204).end()
+    } catch (err) {
+      log.error('failed to change a chat line', { line: id, hidden, error: err.message })
+      return res.status(500).json({ message: hidden ? 'Failed to hide the line' : 'Failed to show the line again' })
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+const hideChat = chatHidden(true)
+const unhideChat = chatHidden(false)
+
 module.exports = {
+  hideChat,
+  unhideChat,
   scheduleFrom,
   listServers,
   putServer,
diff --git a/server/router/admin/rust.router.js b/server/router/admin/rust.router.js
index 26d24d5..289e54a 100644
--- a/server/router/admin/rust.router.js
+++ b/server/router/admin/rust.router.js
@@ -123,6 +123,39 @@ adminRustRouter.post(
   admin.testServer,
 )
 
+// ── Hide a chat line for everyone (USER_SAFETY.md §1, S10) ────────────────
+//
+// From the line's own menu in the feed. `admin` and `moderator`, the two roles
+// core's Reports queue is open to — an editor writes content and moderates none.
+
+adminRustRouter.post(
+  '/chat/:id/hide',
+  // #swagger.tags = ['Admin · Rust']
+  // #swagger.summary = 'Hide a chat line for everyone'
+  // #swagger.description = 'Staff’s hide for everyone (USER_SAFETY.md S10): the line leaves the public feed for everybody but staff, who still get it with `hidden: true`. The same flag core’s Reports queue sets through the `rust.chat` report target. Hiding a hidden line changes nothing. Recorded in the activity log. Admins and moderators.'
+  // #swagger.parameters['id'] = { in: 'path', required: true, description: 'The chat line’s event id', schema: { type: 'integer' } }
+  /* #swagger.responses[204] = { description: 'Hidden' } */
+  /* #swagger.responses[404] = { description: 'No such chat line' } */
+  requireRole('admin', 'moderator'),
+  param('id').isInt({ min: 1 }),
+  validate,
+  admin.hideChat,
+)
+
+adminRustRouter.post(
+  '/chat/:id/unhide',
+  // #swagger.tags = ['Admin · Rust']
+  // #swagger.summary = 'Show a hidden chat line again'
+  // #swagger.description = 'Undoes a hide for everyone, whether it was made here or from the Reports queue. Recorded in the activity log. Admins and moderators.'
+  // #swagger.parameters['id'] = { in: 'path', required: true, description: 'The chat line’s event id', schema: { type: 'integer' } }
+  /* #swagger.responses[204] = { description: 'Shown again' } */
+  /* #swagger.responses[404] = { description: 'No such chat line' } */
+  requireRole('admin', 'moderator'),
+  param('id').isInt({ min: 1 }),
+  validate,
+  admin.unhideChat,
+)
+
 // ── The map's picture (phase 14) ──────────────────────────────────────────
 
 adminRustRouter.post(
diff --git a/server/router/public/rust.controller.js b/server/router/public/rust.controller.js
index 132bdf9..73b3135 100644
--- a/server/router/public/rust.controller.js
+++ b/server/router/public/rust.controller.js
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ const clans = require('../../model/clans/clans.model')
 const dangerousTreasures = require('../../dangerousTreasures')
 const guardedCrate = require('../../guardedCrate')
 const raidableBases = require('../../raidableBases')
+const safety = require('../../safety')
 const economics = require('../../model/economics/economics.model')
 const events = require('../../model/events/events.model')
 const map = require('../../model/map/map.model')
@@ -90,20 +91,30 @@ async function getServer(req, res) {
  *
  * `staff` is the same re-read rung, and reaches only what a world event carries
  * (protocol 14, D353): a Steam id and a position. It never widens the kinds.
+ *
+ * The chat is read for THIS reader too (USER_SAFETY.md S11): lines whose speaker
+ * they block or that they hid are left out, a line staff hid for everyone is
+ * left out unless they are staff, and a signed-in reader gets `canBlock` on each
+ * line (S13). That is why this route was already `perViewer` and must stay so.
  */
 async function listEvents(req, res) {
   try {
     const presence = await visibility.canSeePresence(req, req.params.id)
+    const reader = { userId: presence.userId, staff: presence.level === 'staff' }
+    // Below the presence audience there is no chat to filter or mark.
+    const chat = presence.visible ? await safety.feedFilter(reader) : {}
+    const rows = await events.recent({
+      serverId: req.params.id,
+      presence: presence.visible,
+      staff: reader.staff,
+      kind: req.query.kind,
+      wipeId: req.query.wipe || null,
+      limit: req.query.limit,
+      chat,
+    })
     perViewer(res)
     res.json({
-      events: await events.recent({
-        serverId: req.params.id,
-        presence: presence.visible,
-        staff: presence.level === 'staff',
-        kind: req.query.kind,
-        wipeId: req.query.wipe || null,
-        limit: req.query.limit,
-      }),
+      events: presence.visible ? await safety.annotate(rows, reader) : rows,
       presenceHidden: !presence.visible,
       presenceAudience: presence.required,
     })
diff --git a/server/router/public/rust.router.js b/server/router/public/rust.router.js
index 6464768..b4a3d69 100644
--- a/server/router/public/rust.router.js
+++ b/server/router/public/rust.router.js
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ rustRouter.get(
   '/servers/:id/events',
   // #swagger.tags = ['Public · Rust']
   // #swagger.summary = 'Recent events on one Rust server'
-  // #swagger.description = 'The killfeed and everything else public that happened on a server, newest first. Narrow with `kind` (comma-separated) and `wipe`. Only publicly classified kinds are ever returned — moderation events, login attempts and anything carrying an IP address are stored but never served here. Kinds that name a player who was on the server (connects, respawns, deaths, chat, tallies) are served only to viewers inside the operator’s presence audience, which defaults to staff; `presenceHidden` says when they were withheld. Rust’s own world events (protocol 14, PLAN_REDESIGNS §14.3.1) arrive as `world.event` with `event` naming which of 24: they are public, with a `grid` worked out from the map, but a player’s `name` (and the names in `credited`) only for the presence audience, a Steam id and a position only for staff, and a type this build does not know only for staff. A downed patrol helicopter, Chinook or Bradley carries `credited` and `creditedCount` by the server’s `creditRule` as it was when the event arrived, so a line keeps naming whom the Rotorbane and Tankbreaker counts credited after the rule changes. A frame with a `weapon` (the held entity’s short prefab name, which the title lists count by) also carries `weaponName`, what a page should print: the game’s own name for a ranged weapon, or the prefab name as words with its `.entity` ending dropped.'
+  // #swagger.description = 'The killfeed and everything else public that happened on a server, newest first. Narrow with `kind` (comma-separated) and `wipe`. Only publicly classified kinds are ever returned — moderation events, login attempts and anything carrying an IP address are stored but never served here. Kinds that name a player who was on the server (connects, respawns, deaths, chat, tallies) are served only to viewers inside the operator’s presence audience, which defaults to staff; `presenceHidden` says when they were withheld. Rust’s own world events (protocol 14, PLAN_REDESIGNS §14.3.1) arrive as `world.event` with `event` naming which of 24: they are public, with a `grid` worked out from the map, but a player’s `name` (and the names in `credited`) only for the presence audience, a Steam id and a position only for staff, and a type this build does not know only for staff. A downed patrol helicopter, Chinook or Bradley carries `credited` and `creditedCount` by the server’s `creditRule` as it was when the event arrived, so a line keeps naming whom the Rotorbane and Tankbreaker counts credited after the rule changes. A frame with a `weapon` (the held entity’s short prefab name, which the title lists count by) also carries `weaponName`, what a page should print: the game’s own name for a ranged weapon, or the prefab name as words with its `.entity` ending dropped. Chat is read for each reader (USER_SAFETY.md §4.2): a signed-in reader does not get the lines of a player they blocked (by the player’s linked account, or by Steam id when there is none) or lines they hid for themselves, and each `player.chat` row carries `canBlock` — false for their own lines and for a player linked to a staff account. A line staff hid for everyone is left out for everybody but staff, who get it with `hidden: true`.'
   // #swagger.parameters['id'] = { in: 'path', required: true, description: 'The server’s slug', schema: { type: 'string' } }
   // #swagger.parameters['kind'] = { in: 'query', required: false, description: 'One kind, or several comma-separated', schema: { type: 'string' } }
   // #swagger.parameters['wipe'] = { in: 'query', required: false, description: 'Restrict to one wipe id', schema: { type: 'string' } }
diff --git a/server/safety.js b/server/safety.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..06825ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/safety.js
@@ -0,0 +1,193 @@
+// ── Report, block and hide, for chat lines ─────────────────────────────────
+//
+// USER_SAFETY.md §4.2 (MODULE_API 1.21.0). Core owns the Reports queue, a
+// member's blocks and their "Hide for me" list; this module owns the chat lines
+// those name, and is the only one that can say what a line is, who said it, and
+// whether a reader may see it. Four things live here:
+//
+//   REPORT_TARGETS   `rust.chat`: a chat line, as core's resolver asks for it —
+//                    `snapshot` for one reader, and staff's hide for everyone
+//   GAME_IDENTITIES  `steam`: which website account a Steam id is linked to,
+//                    so a block on a linked speaker lands on their account (S12)
+//                    and a Steam-id block becomes one once the id links (S14)
+//   feedFilter       what one reader's events feed leaves out of the chat (S11)
+//   annotate         `canBlock` on each chat line, for a signed-in reader (S13)
+//
+// ── The rules, each decided by the org lead ───────────────────────────────
+//
+//   S6   Reporting, hiding and blocking all need an account. A signed-out reader
+//        gets the feed as it is, with no `canBlock`.
+//   S8   Staff cannot be blocked. Core refuses the block and drops a block whose
+//        target later became staff; here a line whose speaker is linked to staff
+//        says `canBlock: false`.
+//   S10  A line staff hid for everyone is still staff's to see, marked.
+//   S12  A speaker is checked by their linked ACCOUNT first, and by Steam id only
+//        when they have none.
+//
+// A block hides what someone SAYS: chat lines. Their deaths, connects and kills
+// stay in the feed, because the feed is what happened on the server and a block
+// is not a way to rewrite that.
+
+const core = require('./core')
+
+const eventsDb = require('./model/events/events.db')
+const linksDb = require('./model/links/links.db')
+const serversDb = require('./model/servers/servers.db')
+const visibility = require('./model/visibility/visibility.model')
+
+const log = core.logger('safety')
+
+const CHAT = 'rust.chat'
+const STEAM = 'steam'
+
+function parseFrame(raw) {
+  try {
+    return typeof raw === 'string' ? JSON.parse(raw) : raw || {}
+  } catch {
+    return {}
+  }
+}
+
+const ids = (list) => [...new Set((list || []).filter((v) => v != null).map(String))]
+
+/** Steam id → website account id, for the ids that are linked. */
+async function ownersOf(steamIds) {
+  const wanted = ids(steamIds)
+  if (!wanted.length) return {}
+  const rows = await linksDb.userIdsForSteamIds(wanted)
+  return Object.fromEntries(rows.map((r) => [String(r.steamId), Number(r.userId)]))
+}
+
+/**
+ * One chat line, for one reader, or null.
+ *
+ * Null is the answer for a line that is gone AND for one this reader could not
+ * have seen — on a server whose presence is hidden from them, or hidden by staff
+ * when they are not staff — because core answers 404 to both, and a report or a
+ * block must never confirm who said line 4410 to somebody the feed never showed
+ * it to (MODULE_API.md §2.4).
+ */
+async function snapshot({ targetId, viewer }) {
+  const row = await eventsDb.chatLineById(targetId)
+  if (!row) return null
+
+  const presence = await visibility.canSeePresenceAs(viewer && viewer.userId, row.serverId)
+  if (!presence.visible) return null
+  if (row.hiddenAt && presence.level !== 'staff') return null
+
+  const frame = parseFrame(row.raw)
+  const steamId = row.steamId ? String(row.steamId) : null
+  const [owners, server] = await Promise.all([
+    steamId ? ownersOf([steamId]) : {},
+    serversDb.getServer(row.serverId).catch(() => null),
+  ])
+
+  return {
+    author: {
+      name: frame.name || null,
+      userId: steamId && owners[steamId] ? owners[steamId] : null,
+      identity: steamId ? { kind: STEAM, id: steamId } : null,
+    },
+    text: typeof frame.message === 'string' ? frame.message : '',
+    at: Number.isFinite(Number(row.t)) ? new Date(Number(row.t)).toISOString() : null,
+    where: {
+      server: row.serverId,
+      serverName: server ? server.name : null,
+      channel: frame.channel || 'Global',
+      wipe: row.wipeId || null,
+    },
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Staff's hide for everyone, from core's Reports queue (S3, S10). A line the
+ * sweep has already pruned has nothing left to hide, and that is not an error:
+ * the report is still actioned.
+ */
+async function hide({ targetId, actor }) {
+  if (!(await eventsDb.chatLineById(targetId))) return
+  await eventsDb.setChatHidden(targetId, true, actor && actor.id != null ? actor.id : null)
+}
+
+async function unhide({ targetId }) {
+  await eventsDb.setChatHidden(targetId, false)
+}
+
+const REPORT_TARGETS = Object.freeze([
+  Object.freeze({ id: CHAT, label: 'Chat line', snapshot, hide, unhide }),
+])
+
+const GAME_IDENTITIES = Object.freeze([
+  Object.freeze({ kind: STEAM, label: 'Steam account', ownersOf }),
+])
+
+/**
+ * What one reader's feed leaves out of the chat, as `events.recent` takes it:
+ * the Steam ids whose lines they do not get, the lines they hid, and whether
+ * staff's hidden lines are theirs to see.
+ *
+ * The Steam ids are S12 in one set: every id linked to an account they block,
+ * plus their Steam-id blocks — which core answers only for ids still unlinked,
+ * having already turned a linked one into an account block (S14) or dropped it
+ * when that account is staff (S8). So a line is left out by its speaker's
+ * account when there is one, and by its Steam id only when there is not.
+ *
+ * **A failure here shows the feed unfiltered rather than failing it.** The feed
+ * is the page the site promises to render while everything behind it is down;
+ * a member who sees a blocked line once, with a warning in the log, is the
+ * smaller harm than a blank killfeed for everyone signed in.
+ */
+async function feedFilter({ userId, staff }) {
+  const base = { showHidden: Boolean(staff), steamIds: [], ids: [] }
+  if (userId == null) return base
+  try {
+    const mine = await core.safety.forViewer(userId)
+    const blockedUsers = (mine.blockedUserIds || []).map(Number).filter((n) => Number.isInteger(n) && n > 0)
+    const linked = blockedUsers.length ? await linksDb.steamIdsForUsers(blockedUsers) : []
+    const unlinked = (mine.blockedIdentities && mine.blockedIdentities[STEAM]) || []
+    const hidden = (mine.hidden && mine.hidden[CHAT]) || []
+    return {
+      ...base,
+      steamIds: ids([...linked, ...unlinked]),
+      ids: [...new Set(hidden.map(Number).filter((n) => Number.isInteger(n) && n > 0))],
+    }
+  } catch (err) {
+    log.warn('could not read the reader’s blocks; the feed is unfiltered for them', { error: err.message })
+    return base
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * `canBlock` on each chat line, for a signed-in reader (S13). False when the
+ * line has no Steam id, when the speaker's linked account is the reader's own,
+ * or when it is staff (S8). Signed-out readers get the rows untouched.
+ *
+ * A failure answers `canBlock: false` on every line: the menu then offers no
+ * Block, and core would refuse a block on staff anyway.
+ */
+async function annotate(events, { userId }) {
+  if (userId == null) return events
+  const chat = events.filter((e) => e.kind === 'player.chat')
+  if (!chat.length) return events
+
+  let owners = {}
+  let staff = new Set()
+  let ok = true
+  try {
+    owners = await ownersOf(chat.map((e) => e.steamId))
+    const linked = [...new Set(Object.values(owners))]
+    staff = new Set((linked.length ? await core.safety.staffAmong(linked) : []).map(Number))
+  } catch (err) {
+    log.warn('could not work out who can be blocked; offering no block', { error: err.message })
+    ok = false
+  }
+
+  return events.map((e) => {
+    if (e.kind !== 'player.chat') return e
+    const owner = e.steamId ? owners[String(e.steamId)] : undefined
+    const canBlock = ok && Boolean(e.steamId) && owner !== Number(userId) && !(owner != null && staff.has(owner))
+    return { ...e, canBlock }
+  })
+}
+
+module.exports = { CHAT, STEAM, REPORT_TARGETS, GAME_IDENTITIES, snapshot, hide, unhide, ownersOf, feedFilter, annotate }
diff --git a/server/test/_fakes.js b/server/test/_fakes.js
index ecd9dbc..c0c1ae2 100644
--- a/server/test/_fakes.js
+++ b/server/test/_fakes.js
@@ -91,6 +91,12 @@ function fakeCtx(overrides = {}) {
       },
     },
     activity: { log: spy(Promise.resolve()) },
+    // Report, block and hide (1.21.0). A reader with no blocks and no hides, and
+    // nobody staff; a suite that needs either installs its own.
+    safety: {
+      forViewer: spy(Promise.resolve({ blockedUserIds: [], blockedIdentities: {}, hidden: {} })),
+      staffAmong: spy(Promise.resolve([])),
+    },
     middleware: {
       requireAuth: (req, res, next) => next(),
       requireRole: () => (req, res, next) => next(),
@@ -175,6 +181,9 @@ function fakeApi() {
     onDemoSeed(fn) { once('onDemoSeed'); record.hooks.onDemoSeed = fn },
     // MODULE_API 1.20.0 (account deletion, ACCOUNT_DELETION.md §4.4).
     onUserDeleting(fn) { once('onUserDeleting'); record.hooks.onUserDeleting = fn },
+    // MODULE_API 1.21.0 (report, block and hide, USER_SAFETY.md §4.2).
+    registerReportTargets(targets) { once('registerReportTargets'); record.reportTargets = targets },
+    registerGameIdentities(identities) { once('registerGameIdentities'); record.gameIdentities = identities },
   }
   api.record = record
   return api
diff --git a/server/test/safety.test.js b/server/test/safety.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d3e2bfe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/test/safety.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,349 @@
+// ── Report, block and hide, for chat lines (USER_SAFETY.md §4.2) ───────────
+//
+// What this module promises core and the reader:
+//
+//   • a chat line is answered only to a reader who could have seen it — a line
+//     on a server whose presence is hidden from them, or one staff hid when they
+//     are not staff, is the same `null` as a line that is gone;
+//   • a speaker is known by their linked account first, by Steam id only when
+//     there is none (S12);
+//   • the feed leaves out what this reader blocked or hid, IN the query, and
+//     marks each line `canBlock` for a signed-in reader (S11, S13).
+
+const test = require('node:test')
+const assert = require('node:assert')
+
+const { fakeCtx, spy } = require('./_fakes')
+
+function withCore(overrides = {}) {
+  require('../core')._reset()
+  const ctx = fakeCtx(overrides)
+  require('../core').init(ctx)
+  return ctx
+}
+
+/** Swap named exports on a required file for the length of `fn`. */
+async function stubbing(mod, stubs, fn) {
+  const saved = {}
+  for (const [name, value] of Object.entries(stubs)) {
+    saved[name] = mod[name]
+    mod[name] = value
+  }
+  try {
+    return await fn()
+  } finally {
+    Object.assign(mod, saved)
+  }
+}
+
+const LINE = {
+  id: 4410,
+  serverId: 'main',
+  wipeId: 'w1',
+  t: Date.UTC(2026, 9, 30, 10, 0, 0),
+  steamId: '76561198000000001',
+  raw: JSON.stringify({ name: 'Rusty', message: 'gg ez', channel: 'Global' }),
+  hiddenAt: null,
+}
+
+const SEEN = { visible: true, level: 'signed_in', required: 'signed_in', userId: 7 }
+
+function deps() {
+  return {
+    eventsDb: require('../model/events/events.db'),
+    linksDb: require('../model/links/links.db'),
+    serversDb: require('../model/servers/servers.db'),
+    visibility: require('../model/visibility/visibility.model'),
+    safety: require('../safety'),
+  }
+}
+
+// ── registration ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+test('rust.chat and the steam identity are registered, in core’s shape', () => {
+  require('../core')._reset()
+  const { fakeApi } = require('./_fakes')
+  const api = fakeApi()
+  require('../index')(fakeCtx(), api)
+
+  const [target] = api.record.reportTargets
+  assert.strictEqual(api.record.reportTargets.length, 1)
+  assert.strictEqual(target.id, 'rust.chat')
+  // Core's rule: namespaced `<moduleId>.`, at most 32 characters, a label of 40.
+  assert.match(target.id, /^rust\.[a-z0-9._-]+$/)
+  assert.ok(target.id.length <= 32 && target.label.length <= 40)
+  for (const name of ['snapshot', 'hide', 'unhide']) assert.strictEqual(typeof target[name], 'function')
+
+  const [identity] = api.record.gameIdentities
+  assert.strictEqual(api.record.gameIdentities.length, 1)
+  assert.strictEqual(identity.kind, 'steam')
+  assert.strictEqual(typeof identity.ownersOf, 'function')
+})
+
+// ── snapshot ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+test('a line is described for a reader who could see it, with the linked account', async () => {
+  withCore()
+  const { eventsDb, linksDb, serversDb, visibility, safety } = deps()
+
+  await stubbing(eventsDb, { chatLineById: async () => LINE }, () =>
+    stubbing(visibility, { canSeePresenceAs: async () => SEEN }, () =>
+      stubbing(linksDb, { userIdsForSteamIds: async () => [{ steamId: LINE.steamId, userId: 12 }] }, () =>
+        stubbing(serversDb, { getServer: async () => ({ name: 'Main' }) }, async () => {
+          const snap = await safety.snapshot({ targetId: 4410, viewer: { userId: 7, role: 'player' } })
+          assert.deepStrictEqual(snap, {
+            author: { name: 'Rusty', userId: 12, identity: { kind: 'steam', id: LINE.steamId } },
+            text: 'gg ez',
+            at: '2026-10-30T10:00:00.000Z',
+            where: { server: 'main', serverName: 'Main', channel: 'Global', wipe: 'w1' },
+          })
+        }))))
+})
+
+test('an unlinked speaker has no account, only their Steam id', async () => {
+  withCore()
+  const { eventsDb, linksDb, serversDb, visibility, safety } = deps()
+
+  await stubbing(eventsDb, { chatLineById: async () => LINE }, () =>
+    stubbing(visibility, { canSeePresenceAs: async () => SEEN }, () =>
+      stubbing(linksDb, { userIdsForSteamIds: async () => [] }, () =>
+        stubbing(serversDb, { getServer: async () => null }, async () => {
+          const snap = await safety.snapshot({ targetId: 4410, viewer: { userId: 7, role: 'player' } })
+          assert.strictEqual(snap.author.userId, null)
+          assert.deepStrictEqual(snap.author.identity, { kind: 'steam', id: LINE.steamId })
+        }))))
+})
+
+test('a line the reader could not have seen is the same null as a missing one', async () => {
+  withCore()
+  const { eventsDb, visibility, safety } = deps()
+  const viewer = { userId: 7, role: 'player' }
+
+  await stubbing(eventsDb, { chatLineById: async () => null }, async () => {
+    assert.strictEqual(await safety.snapshot({ targetId: 1, viewer }), null)
+  })
+
+  // Presence hidden from this reader on the line's server.
+  await stubbing(eventsDb, { chatLineById: async () => LINE }, () =>
+    stubbing(visibility, { canSeePresenceAs: async () => ({ ...SEEN, visible: false }) }, async () => {
+      assert.strictEqual(await safety.snapshot({ targetId: 4410, viewer }), null)
+    }))
+
+  // Hidden by staff, and the reader is not staff (S10).
+  const hidden = { ...LINE, hiddenAt: new Date() }
+  await stubbing(eventsDb, { chatLineById: async () => hidden }, () =>
+    stubbing(visibility, { canSeePresenceAs: async () => SEEN }, async () => {
+      assert.strictEqual(await safety.snapshot({ targetId: 4410, viewer }), null)
+    }))
+})
+
+test('staff still get a line staff hid, so the report can be read', async () => {
+  withCore()
+  const { eventsDb, linksDb, serversDb, visibility, safety } = deps()
+  const hidden = { ...LINE, hiddenAt: new Date() }
+
+  await stubbing(eventsDb, { chatLineById: async () => hidden }, () =>
+    stubbing(visibility, { canSeePresenceAs: async () => ({ ...SEEN, level: 'staff' }) }, () =>
+      stubbing(linksDb, { userIdsForSteamIds: async () => [] }, () =>
+        stubbing(serversDb, { getServer: async () => null }, async () => {
+          const snap = await safety.snapshot({ targetId: 4410, viewer: { userId: 1, role: 'moderator' } })
+          assert.strictEqual(snap.text, 'gg ez')
+        }))))
+})
+
+test('the presence check is made for the account core names, not the session role', async () => {
+  withCore()
+  const { eventsDb, visibility, safety } = deps()
+  const asked = []
+
+  await stubbing(eventsDb, { chatLineById: async () => LINE }, () =>
+    stubbing(visibility, { canSeePresenceAs: async (userId, serverId) => { asked.push([userId, serverId]); return { ...SEEN, visible: false } } }, async () => {
+      await safety.snapshot({ targetId: 4410, viewer: { userId: 7, role: 'admin' } })
+    }))
+  assert.deepStrictEqual(asked, [[7, 'main']])
+})
+
+// ── hide for everyone ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+test('hide sets the flag with who did it; a pruned line is left alone', async () => {
+  withCore()
+  const { eventsDb, safety } = deps()
+  const set = spy(Promise.resolve())
+
+  await stubbing(eventsDb, { chatLineById: async () => LINE, setChatHidden: set }, async () => {
+    await safety.hide({ targetId: 4410, actor: { id: 3, username: 'moderator', role: 'moderator' } })
+    await safety.unhide({ targetId: 4410, actor: { id: 3 } })
+  })
+  assert.deepStrictEqual(set.calls, [[4410, true, 3], [4410, false]])
+
+  const none = spy(Promise.resolve())
+  await stubbing(eventsDb, { chatLineById: async () => null, setChatHidden: none }, async () => {
+    await safety.hide({ targetId: 9, actor: { id: 3 } })
+  })
+  assert.deepStrictEqual(none.calls, [])
+})
+
+function fakeRes() {
+  const res = { statusCode: 200, body: null }
+  res.status = (code) => { res.statusCode = code; return res }
+  res.json = (body) => { res.body = body; return res }
+  res.end = () => res
+  return res
+}
+
+test('the line’s own menu hides and unhides through admin routes, logged', async () => {
+  const ctx = withCore()
+  const { eventsDb } = deps()
+  const admin = require('../router/admin/rust.controller')
+  const set = spy(Promise.resolve())
+
+  await stubbing(eventsDb, { chatLineById: async () => LINE, setChatHidden: set }, async () => {
+    const res = fakeRes()
+    await admin.hideChat({ params: { id: '4410' }, user: { id: 3 } }, res)
+    assert.strictEqual(res.statusCode, 204)
+    await admin.unhideChat({ params: { id: '4410' }, user: { id: 3 } }, fakeRes())
+  })
+  assert.deepStrictEqual(set.calls, [[4410, true, 3], [4410, false, 3]])
+  assert.deepStrictEqual(ctx.activity.log.calls.map(([e]) => e.action), ['rust.chat.hide', 'rust.chat.unhide'])
+
+  await stubbing(eventsDb, { chatLineById: async () => null }, async () => {
+    const res = fakeRes()
+    await admin.hideChat({ params: { id: '9' }, user: { id: 3 } }, res)
+    assert.strictEqual(res.statusCode, 404)
+  })
+})
+
+// ── the steam identity ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+test('ownersOf answers linked ids only, and asks nothing for an empty list', async () => {
+  withCore()
+  const { linksDb, safety } = deps()
+  const asked = spy(async () => [{ steamId: '1', userId: 5 }])
+
+  await stubbing(linksDb, { userIdsForSteamIds: asked }, async () => {
+    assert.deepStrictEqual(await safety.ownersOf(['1', '2', '1', null]), { 1: 5 })
+    assert.deepStrictEqual(await safety.ownersOf([]), {})
+  })
+  assert.deepStrictEqual(asked.calls, [[['1', '2']]])
+})
+
+// ── the feed ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+test('a signed-out reader is filtered by nothing but staff’s hides', async () => {
+  const ctx = withCore()
+  const { safety } = deps()
+
+  assert.deepStrictEqual(await safety.feedFilter({ userId: null, staff: false }), { showHidden: false, steamIds: [], ids: [] })
+  assert.deepStrictEqual(ctx.safety.forViewer.calls, [])
+})
+
+test('a reader’s blocks become Steam ids: an account’s linked ids, and unlinked Steam blocks', async () => {
+  withCore({
+    safety: {
+      forViewer: async () => ({
+        blockedUserIds: [12],
+        blockedIdentities: { steam: ['900'] },
+        hidden: { 'rust.chat': [4410, 4411] },
+      }),
+      staffAmong: async () => [],
+    },
+  })
+  const { linksDb, safety } = deps()
+  const asked = spy(async () => ['100', '101'])
+
+  await stubbing(linksDb, { steamIdsForUsers: asked }, async () => {
+    assert.deepStrictEqual(await safety.feedFilter({ userId: 7, staff: true }), {
+      showHidden: true,
+      steamIds: ['100', '101', '900'],
+      ids: [4410, 4411],
+    })
+  })
+  assert.deepStrictEqual(asked.calls, [[[12]]])
+})
+
+test('a feed whose blocks cannot be read is shown unfiltered, not failed', async () => {
+  withCore({ safety: { forViewer: async () => { throw new Error('db down') }, staffAmong: async () => [] } })
+  const { safety } = deps()
+  assert.deepStrictEqual(await safety.feedFilter({ userId: 7, staff: false }), { showHidden: false, steamIds: [], ids: [] })
+})
+
+test('canBlock: not your own lines, not a staff-linked player, not a line with no Steam id', async () => {
+  withCore({ safety: { forViewer: async () => ({}), staffAmong: async (ids) => ids.filter((id) => id === 2) } })
+  const { linksDb, safety } = deps()
+  const rows = [
+    { id: 1, kind: 'player.chat', steamId: 'mine' },
+    { id: 2, kind: 'player.chat', steamId: 'staff' },
+    { id: 3, kind: 'player.chat', steamId: 'linked' },
+    { id: 4, kind: 'player.chat', steamId: 'unlinked' },
+    { id: 5, kind: 'player.chat', steamId: null },
+    { id: 6, kind: 'player.death', steamId: 'linked' },
+  ]
+
+  await stubbing(linksDb, {
+    userIdsForSteamIds: async () => [
+      { steamId: 'mine', userId: 7 },
+      { steamId: 'staff', userId: 2 },
+      { steamId: 'linked', userId: 12 },
+    ],
+  }, async () => {
+    const out = await safety.annotate(rows, { userId: 7 })
+    assert.deepStrictEqual(out.map((r) => r.canBlock), [false, false, true, true, false, undefined])
+    // Signed out: untouched.
+    assert.strictEqual(await safety.annotate(rows, { userId: null }), rows)
+  })
+})
+
+test('when who is staff cannot be read, no line offers Block', async () => {
+  withCore({ safety: { forViewer: async () => ({}), staffAmong: async () => { throw new Error('db down') } } })
+  const { linksDb, safety } = deps()
+
+  await stubbing(linksDb, { userIdsForSteamIds: async () => [{ steamId: 'a', userId: 12 }] }, async () => {
+    const out = await safety.annotate([{ id: 1, kind: 'player.chat', steamId: 'a' }, { id: 2, kind: 'player.chat', steamId: 'b' }], { userId: 7 })
+    assert.deepStrictEqual(out.map((r) => r.canBlock), [false, false])
+  })
+})
+
+// ── the query ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+test('the feed’s query leaves hidden, blocked and hidden-for-me chat out, and only chat', async () => {
+  const ctx = withCore()
+  const db = require('../model/events/events.db')
+
+  await db.recentEvents({ serverId: 'main', kinds: ['player.chat', 'player.death'], limit: 50 })
+  let [sql, params] = ctx.db.query.calls.at(-1)
+  assert.match(sql, /NOT \(kind = 'player\.chat' AND hidden_at IS NOT NULL\)/)
+  assert.deepStrictEqual(params, ['main', 'player.chat', 'player.death', 50])
+
+  await db.recentEvents({
+    serverId: 'main',
+    kinds: ['player.chat'],
+    limit: 50,
+    chat: { showHidden: true, steamIds: ['100', '900'], ids: [4410] },
+  });
+  [sql, params] = ctx.db.query.calls.at(-1)
+  assert.doesNotMatch(sql, /hidden_at IS NOT NULL/, 'staff get hidden lines')
+  assert.match(sql, /NOT \(kind = 'player\.chat' AND steam_id IN \(\?, \?\)\)/)
+  assert.match(sql, /NOT \(kind = 'player\.chat' AND id IN \(\?\)\)/)
+  assert.deepStrictEqual(params, ['main', 'player.chat', '100', '900', 4410, 50])
+})
+
+test('the model passes the reader’s chat filter through, narrow by default, and marks staff’s hidden lines', async () => {
+  withCore()
+  const db = require('../model/events/events.db')
+  const model = require('../model/events/events.model')
+  let asked = null
+
+  await stubbing(db, {
+    recentEvents: async (args) => {
+      asked = args
+      return [{ id: 1, kind: 'player.chat', t: 1, steamId: 'a', raw: '{}', hiddenAt: new Date() }]
+    },
+  }, async () => {
+    await model.recent({ serverId: 'main', presence: true })
+    assert.deepStrictEqual(asked.chat, { showHidden: false, steamIds: [], ids: [] })
+
+    const rows = await model.recent({ serverId: 'main', presence: true, chat: { showHidden: true, steamIds: ['x'], ids: [2] } })
+    assert.deepStrictEqual(asked.chat, { showHidden: true, steamIds: ['x'], ids: [2] })
+    assert.strictEqual(rows[0].hidden, true)
+  })
+})
diff --git a/swagger-fragment.json b/swagger-fragment.json
index 4ae6c82..327ea32 100644
--- a/swagger-fragment.json
+++ b/swagger-fragment.json
@@ -1,5 +1,61 @@
 {
   "paths": {
+    "/api/v1/admin/rust/chat/{id}/hide": {
+      "post": {
+        "tags": [
+          "Admin · Rust"
+        ],
+        "summary": "Hide a chat line for everyone",
+        "description": "Staff’s hide for everyone (USER_SAFETY.md S10): the line leaves the public feed for everybody but staff, who still get it with `hidden: true`. The same flag core’s Reports queue sets through the `rust.chat` report target. Hiding a hidden line changes nothing. Recorded in the activity log. Admins and moderators.",
+        "parameters": [
+          {
+            "name": "id",
+            "in": "path",
+            "required": true,
+            "schema": {
+              "type": "integer"
+            },
+            "description": "The chat line’s event id"
+          }
+        ],
+        "responses": {
+          "204": {
+            "description": "Hidden"
+          },
+          "404": {
+            "description": "No such chat line"
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    },
+    "/api/v1/admin/rust/chat/{id}/unhide": {
+      "post": {
+        "tags": [
+          "Admin · Rust"
+        ],
+        "summary": "Show a hidden chat line again",
+        "description": "Undoes a hide for everyone, whether it was made here or from the Reports queue. Recorded in the activity log. Admins and moderators.",
+        "parameters": [
+          {
+            "name": "id",
+            "in": "path",
+            "required": true,
+            "schema": {
+              "type": "integer"
+            },
+            "description": "The chat line’s event id"
+          }
+        ],
+        "responses": {
+          "204": {
+            "description": "Shown again"
+          },
+          "404": {
+            "description": "No such chat line"
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    },
     "/api/v1/admin/rust/config/{serverId}/file": {
       "get": {
         "tags": [
@@ -3203,7 +3259,7 @@
           "Public · Rust"
         ],
         "summary": "Recent events on one Rust server",
-        "description": "The killfeed and everything else public that happened on a server, newest first. Narrow with `kind` (comma-separated) and `wipe`. Only publicly classified kinds are ever returned — moderation events, login attempts and anything carrying an IP address are stored but never served here. Kinds that name a player who was on the server (connects, respawns, deaths, chat, tallies) are served only to viewers inside the operator’s presence audience, which defaults to staff; `presenceHidden` says when they were withheld. Rust’s own world events (protocol 14, PLAN_REDESIGNS §14.3.1) arrive as `world.event` with `event` naming which of 24: they are public, with a `grid` worked out from the map, but a player’s `name` (and the names in `credited`) only for the presence audience, a Steam id and a position only for staff, and a type this build does not know only for staff. A downed patrol helicopter, Chinook or Bradley carries `credited` and `creditedCount` by the server’s `creditRule` as it was when the event arrived, so a line keeps naming whom the Rotorbane and Tankbreaker counts credited after the rule changes. A frame with a `weapon` (the held entity’s short prefab name, which the title lists count by) also carries `weaponName`, what a page should print: the game’s own name for a ranged weapon, or the prefab name as words with its `.entity` ending dropped.",
+        "description": "The killfeed and everything else public that happened on a server, newest first. Narrow with `kind` (comma-separated) and `wipe`. Only publicly classified kinds are ever returned — moderation events, login attempts and anything carrying an IP address are stored but never served here. Kinds that name a player who was on the server (connects, respawns, deaths, chat, tallies) are served only to viewers inside the operator’s presence audience, which defaults to staff; `presenceHidden` says when they were withheld. Rust’s own world events (protocol 14, PLAN_REDESIGNS §14.3.1) arrive as `world.event` with `event` naming which of 24: they are public, with a `grid` worked out from the map, but a player’s `name` (and the names in `credited`) only for the presence audience, a Steam id and a position only for staff, and a type this build does not know only for staff. A downed patrol helicopter, Chinook or Bradley carries `credited` and `creditedCount` by the server’s `creditRule` as it was when the event arrived, so a line keeps naming whom the Rotorbane and Tankbreaker counts credited after the rule changes. A frame with a `weapon` (the held entity’s short prefab name, which the title lists count by) also carries `weaponName`, what a page should print: the game’s own name for a ranged weapon, or the prefab name as words with its `.entity` ending dropped. Chat is read for each reader (USER_SAFETY.md §4.2): a signed-in reader does not get the lines of a player they blocked (by the player’s linked account, or by Steam id when there is none) or lines they hid for themselves, and each `player.chat` row carries `canBlock` — false for their own lines and for a player linked to a staff account. A line staff hid for everyone is left out for everybody but staff, who get it with `hidden: true`.",
         "parameters": [
           {
             "name": "id",