diff --git a/call-log/README.md b/call-log/README.md
index 3e29a2d..fd11f3f 100644
--- a/call-log/README.md
+++ b/call-log/README.md
@@ -48,9 +48,12 @@ app.use('*', async (c, next) => callLogMiddleware(host(c))(c, next))
 ```
 
 One record per request, skipping `OPTIONS`, `HEAD`, `/.well-known/*`,
-`/health` and `/openapi.json` (`skip` overrides). The caller is named from
-`Signature-Key` without verification, so a refused call still says who
-called. A person token names no agent; when your verifier resolves one, say so:
+`/health` and `/openapi.json` (`skip` overrides). An unsigned request — no
+`Signature` and no `Signature-Key` — is logged only when the response carries
+`AAuth-Requirement`: that challenge is the first step of a call, and anything
+else unsigned is a browser or a scanner. This holds under a host's own `skip`
+too. The caller is named from `Signature-Key` without verification, so a
+refused call still says who called. A person token names no agent; when your verifier resolves one, say so:
 
 ```ts
 nameAgent(verified.agent_id)
diff --git a/call-log/package.json b/call-log/package.json
index b74d6a7..2fd076c 100644
--- a/call-log/package.json
+++ b/call-log/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@aauth/call-log",
-  "version": "0.1.1",
+  "version": "0.1.2",
   "description": "The aauth.call record: one log record per HTTP call between AAuth roles, at each end. A pure builder, a Hono-shaped middleware for the callee side, and logged fetch wrappers for the caller side.",
   "type": "module",
   "exports": {
diff --git a/call-log/src/callee.ts b/call-log/src/callee.ts
index 64e0390..9e08d3a 100644
--- a/call-log/src/callee.ts
+++ b/call-log/src/callee.ts
@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ const skipByDefault = (request: Request) => {
   return path.startsWith('/.well-known/') || path === '/health' || path === '/openapi.json'
 }
 
+// An unsigned request is a browser or a scanner, not a call between roles,
+// unless the response challenges it with `AAuth-Requirement`: that 401 is the
+// first step of a call. Applied after `skip`, so a host's own `skip` keeps it.
+const isUnsigned = (request: Request) => !request.headers.has('signature') && !request.headers.has('signature-key')
+const challenged = (response: Response) => response.headers.has('aauth-requirement')
+
 // A request body is read once by the handler. Clone before `next()` only
 // when it is worth logging: JSON, and small. Cloning tees the stream, and a
 // tee that nobody drains holds the bytes.
@@ -53,19 +59,22 @@ const worthCloning = (request: Request) => {
 
 /**
  * `app.use('*', callLogMiddleware(host))`, before the routes. Every request
- * not skipped gets one callee record.
+ * not skipped gets one callee record, except an unsigned one whose response
+ * carries no `AAuth-Requirement`.
  */
 export function callLogMiddleware(host: CallLogHost, options: CalleeOptions = {}) {
   const skip = options.skip ?? skipByDefault
   return async (c: ContextLike, next: Next): Promise<void> => {
     const request = c.req.raw
     if (skip(request)) return next()
+    const unsigned = isUnsigned(request)
     const started = new Date()
     const callId = await callIdOf(request.headers.get('signature'))
     const requestClone = worthCloning(request) ? request.clone() : null
     const context: CallContext = { callId }
     await runInCall(context, next)
     const response = c.res
+    if (unsigned && !challenged(response)) return
     const ended = Date.now()
     const responseClone = response.clone()
     const ctx = executionCtxOf(c)
diff --git a/call-log/src/sides.test.ts b/call-log/src/sides.test.ts
index 528b171..c755f0f 100644
--- a/call-log/src/sides.test.ts
+++ b/call-log/src/sides.test.ts
@@ -76,15 +76,36 @@ describe('the callee side', () => {
     expect(records).toHaveLength(1)
   })
 
-  it('an unsigned call has a random id and no caller; its own 5xx is error level', async () => {
+  it('an unsigned request is logged only when the response carries AAuth-Requirement, with a random id and no caller', async () => {
     const { host, records, settled } = testHost()
-    const { c, next } = contextFor(new Request('https://encrypt.aauth.dev/send', { method: 'POST' }), async () => new Response('boom', { status: 500 }))
+    const mw = callLogMiddleware(host, { skip: () => false }) // a host's own skip does not turn the rule off
+    const answers: [Request, Response][] = [
+      [new Request('https://encrypt.aauth.dev/'), Response.json({ error: 'signature_required' }, { status: 401, headers: { 'Accept-Signature': 'sig=("@method" "@authority" "@path" "signature-key")' } })],
+      [new Request('https://encrypt.aauth.dev/.env'), new Response('not found', { status: 404 })],
+      [new Request('https://encrypt.aauth.dev/send', { method: 'POST' }), new Response('boom', { status: 500 })],
+      [new Request('https://encrypt.aauth.dev/send', { method: 'POST' }), Response.json({ error: 'person_token_required' }, { status: 401, headers: { 'AAuth-Requirement': 'requirement=person-token' } })],
+    ]
+    for (const [request, response] of answers) {
+      const { c, next } = contextFor(request, async () => response)
+      await mw(c, next)
+    }
+    await settled()
+    expect(records).toHaveLength(1)
+    const [r] = records
+    expect(r).toMatchObject({ method: 'POST', path: '/send', status: 401, level: 30, response: { params: { 'AAuth-Requirement': { requirement: 'person-token' } } } })
+    expect(r.call_id).toMatch(/^[0-9a-f-]{36}$/)
+    expect(r.from).toBeUndefined()
+    expect(r.signed).toBeUndefined()
+  })
+
+  it('a request carrying only Signature-Key is not unsigned; its own 5xx is error level', async () => {
+    const { host, records, settled } = testHost()
+    const request = new Request('https://encrypt.aauth.dev/send', { method: 'POST', headers: { 'signature-key': `sig=jwt; jwt="${agentJwt}"` } })
+    const { c, next } = contextFor(request, async () => new Response('boom', { status: 500 }))
     await callLogMiddleware(host)(c, next)
     await settled()
-    expect(records[0]).toMatchObject({ status: 500, level: 50 })
+    expect(records[0]).toMatchObject({ status: 500, level: 50, from: 'aauth:owl@ap.example' })
     expect(records[0].call_id).toMatch(/^[0-9a-f-]{36}$/)
-    expect(records[0].from).toBeUndefined()
-    expect(records[0].signed).toBeUndefined()
   })
 })
 
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index e0c9023..3bcd227 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
     },
     "call-log": {
       "name": "@aauth/call-log",
-      "version": "0.1.0",
+      "version": "0.1.2",
       "license": "MIT",
       "devDependencies": {
         "@types/node": "^20.0.0",