diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/+thread-local-sandbox-verification.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/+thread-local-sandbox-verification.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fedd4c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/unreleased/+thread-local-sandbox-verification.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+kind: Fixed
+body: Verify application sandbox capabilities on the exact Linux thread that will launch the workload.
diff --git a/docs/CONTROLLED_SESSION_DESIGN.md b/docs/CONTROLLED_SESSION_DESIGN.md
index b4df344..ec971ba 100644
--- a/docs/CONTROLLED_SESSION_DESIGN.md
+++ b/docs/CONTROLLED_SESSION_DESIGN.md
@@ -1197,7 +1197,7 @@ in a final runtime layer, creates the locked container-local account there,
 records that layer outside the provider graph, and uses its fixed
 sandbox-and-exec contract as the outermost process for persistent
 workloads, transient commands, shells, and lifecycle commands. The verifier
-fails closed unless `/proc/self/status` reports seccomp filtering,
+fails closed unless `/proc/thread-self/status` reports seccomp filtering,
 `no-new-privileges`, and empty inheritable, effective, permitted, bounding, and
 ambient capability
 sets, then directly executes the exact application argv. Private-environment
diff --git a/internal/dockerdeploy/private_workload_environment_integration_test.go b/internal/dockerdeploy/private_workload_environment_integration_test.go
index 76ea473..1454574 100644
--- a/internal/dockerdeploy/private_workload_environment_integration_test.go
+++ b/internal/dockerdeploy/private_workload_environment_integration_test.go
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ func TestPrivateWorkloadEnvironmentDockerIntegrationMasksFilesAndInjectsValues(t
 	if os.Getenv("REPLOY_DOCKER_INTEGRATION") != "1" {
 		t.Skip("set REPLOY_DOCKER_INTEGRATION=1 to run Docker integration evidence")
 	}
-	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 2*time.Minute)
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 4*time.Minute)
 	defer cancel()
 
 	image, _ := buildApplicationStartupVerifierIntegrationImage(t, ctx)
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ func TestPrivateRuntimeMasksDockerIntegrationProtectTransientContainer(t *testin
 	if os.Getenv("REPLOY_DOCKER_INTEGRATION") != "1" {
 		t.Skip("set REPLOY_DOCKER_INTEGRATION=1 to run Docker integration evidence")
 	}
-	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 2*time.Minute)
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 4*time.Minute)
 	defer cancel()
 
 	image, _ := buildApplicationStartupVerifierIntegrationImage(t, ctx)
diff --git a/internal/probe/startup_verifier.go b/internal/probe/startup_verifier.go
index a3651a9..3fbd646 100644
--- a/internal/probe/startup_verifier.go
+++ b/internal/probe/startup_verifier.go
@@ -9,7 +9,11 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 )
 
-const applicationKernelStatusPath = "/proc/self/status"
+// Sandbox setup is deliberately pinned to one OS thread because Linux
+// credentials and capability sets are thread-scoped. /proc/self/status
+// describes the thread-group leader, which may be a different Go runtime
+// thread; verify the exact thread that will exec the application instead.
+const applicationKernelStatusPath = "/proc/thread-self/status"
 
 var requiredApplicationKernelStatusV1 = []struct {
 	name string
diff --git a/internal/probe/startup_verifier_linux_test.go b/internal/probe/startup_verifier_linux_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1a6f667
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/probe/startup_verifier_linux_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+//go:build linux
+
+package probe
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"runtime"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
+)
+
+func TestReadApplicationKernelStatusUsesCallingThread(t *testing.T) {
+	type result struct {
+		tid     int
+		content []byte
+		err     error
+	}
+	results := make(chan result, 2)
+	release := make(chan struct{})
+	done := make(chan struct{}, 2)
+	defer func() {
+		close(release)
+		for range 2 {
+			<-done
+		}
+	}()
+	for range 2 {
+		go func() {
+			runtime.LockOSThread()
+			defer runtime.UnlockOSThread()
+			defer func() { done <- struct{}{} }()
+			content, err := readApplicationKernelStatus()
+			results <- result{tid: unix.Gettid(), content: content, err: err}
+			<-release
+		}()
+	}
+
+	observedNonLeader := false
+	for range 2 {
+		result := <-results
+		if result.err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(result.err)
+		}
+		if result.tid != os.Getpid() {
+			observedNonLeader = true
+		}
+		var statusPID string
+		for _, line := range strings.Split(string(result.content), "\n") {
+			name, raw, found := strings.Cut(line, ":")
+			if found && name == "Pid" {
+				fields := strings.Fields(raw)
+				if len(fields) == 1 {
+					statusPID = fields[0]
+				}
+				break
+			}
+		}
+		if statusPID != strconv.Itoa(result.tid) {
+			t.Fatalf("status Pid = %q, want calling thread %d", statusPID, result.tid)
+		}
+	}
+	if !observedNonLeader {
+		t.Fatal("test did not observe a non-leader OS thread")
+	}
+}