diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy-router.yml b/.github/workflows/deploy-router.yml
index 0325c584..3d3ecec0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/deploy-router.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/deploy-router.yml
@@ -88,11 +88,14 @@ jobs:
 
       # Worker secrets ship atomically with the deploy. Only secrets that are
       # present are written; an absent ANALYTICS_VISITOR_HASH_SECRET leaves
-      # guide-fetch analytics failing closed (no data points).
+      # guide-fetch analytics failing closed (no data points), and an absent
+      # OPENAI_APPS_CHALLENGE_TOKEN leaves /.well-known/openai-apps-challenge
+      # returning 404.
       - name: Prepare optional Worker secrets
         shell: bash
         env:
           ANALYTICS_VISITOR_HASH_SECRET: ${{ secrets.ANALYTICS_VISITOR_HASH_SECRET }}
+          OPENAI_APPS_CHALLENGE_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.OPENAI_APPS_CHALLENGE_TOKEN }}
         run: |
           set -euo pipefail
           umask 077
@@ -100,7 +103,7 @@ jobs:
           node --input-type=module <<'NODE'
           import { writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
 
-          const names = ["ANALYTICS_VISITOR_HASH_SECRET"];
+          const names = ["ANALYTICS_VISITOR_HASH_SECRET", "OPENAI_APPS_CHALLENGE_TOKEN"];
           const secrets = Object.fromEntries(names.flatMap((name) => {
             const value = process.env[name];
             return value ? [[name, value]] : [];
diff --git a/router/index.ts b/router/index.ts
index 7d97541a..83f9ace6 100644
--- a/router/index.ts
+++ b/router/index.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ interface Env extends AnalyticsEnv {
     fetch(request: Request): Promise<Response>;
   };
   WEBHOOK_WORKER_ORIGIN?: string;
+  // Worker secret holding OpenAI's apps domain-verification token. Shipped by
+  // deploy-router.yml from the OPENAI_APPS_CHALLENGE_TOKEN GitHub Actions
+  // secret; never committed. Unset means the challenge path 404s.
+  OPENAI_APPS_CHALLENGE_TOKEN?: string;
 }
 
 function hasRecorderEnv(env: Env): env is Env & RecorderEnv {
@@ -688,10 +692,54 @@ async function fetchRelayAgent(request: Request, url: URL, env: Env): Promise<Re
   return globalThis.fetch(buildRelayAgentRequest(request, url, validatedRelayAgentOrigin(origin)));
 }
 
+// OpenAI apps domain verification. OpenAI fetches this apex path and expects
+// the bare token as text/plain with a 200 — no HTML, JSON or redirect. The
+// token comes from the OPENAI_APPS_CHALLENGE_TOKEN Worker secret; when it is
+// unset or blank the path 404s rather than falling through to the marketing
+// site. Answered before any upstream dispatch so the token never reaches the
+// traffic recorder.
+const OPENAI_APPS_CHALLENGE_PATH = "/.well-known/openai-apps-challenge";
+
+export function getOpenAiAppsChallengeResponse(
+  request: Request,
+  url: URL,
+  env: Pick<Env, "OPENAI_APPS_CHALLENGE_TOKEN">,
+): Response | null {
+  if (url.hostname !== PRIMARY_HOST || url.pathname !== OPENAI_APPS_CHALLENGE_PATH) {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  const headers = {
+    "content-type": "text/plain; charset=utf-8",
+    "cache-control": "no-store",
+  };
+  if (request.method !== "GET" && request.method !== "HEAD") {
+    return new Response("Method Not Allowed", {
+      status: 405,
+      headers: { ...headers, allow: "GET, HEAD" },
+    });
+  }
+
+  const token = env.OPENAI_APPS_CHALLENGE_TOKEN?.trim();
+  if (!token) {
+    return new Response("Not Found", { status: 404, headers });
+  }
+
+  return new Response(request.method === "HEAD" ? null : token, {
+    status: 200,
+    headers,
+  });
+}
+
 const router = {
   async fetch(request: Request, env: Env, ctx: ExecutionContext, timing: EdgeTiming): Promise<Response> {
     const url = new URL(request.url);
 
+    const openAiAppsChallenge = getOpenAiAppsChallengeResponse(request, url, env);
+    if (openAiAppsChallenge) {
+      return openAiAppsChallenge;
+    }
+
     const oauthWellKnownPath = url.hostname === PRIMARY_HOST
       && (request.method === "GET" || request.method === "HEAD")
       ? rewriteCloudOAuthWellKnownPath(url.pathname)
diff --git a/router/test/openai-apps-challenge.test.ts b/router/test/openai-apps-challenge.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..654dfe6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/router/test/openai-apps-challenge.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+
+import worker from "../index.js";
+
+const TOKEN = "test-challenge-token-not-real";
+
+function buildEnv(overrides: Record<string, unknown> = {}) {
+  return {
+    CLOUD_APP_ORIGIN: "https://origin.test.invalid",
+    CLOUD_WEB_WORKER: { fetch: vi.fn(async () => new Response("cloud", { status: 200 })) },
+    ...overrides,
+  } as unknown as Parameters<typeof worker.fetch>[1];
+}
+
+const ctx = { waitUntil: () => undefined, passThroughOnException: () => undefined } as unknown as ExecutionContext;
+
+const CHALLENGE_URL = "https://agentrelay.com/.well-known/openai-apps-challenge";
+
+describe("OpenAI apps domain challenge", () => {
+  it("returns only the token as text/plain with a 200 when the secret is set", async () => {
+    const env = buildEnv({ OPENAI_APPS_CHALLENGE_TOKEN: TOKEN });
+    const response = await worker.fetch(new Request(CHALLENGE_URL), env, ctx);
+
+    expect(response.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(response.headers.get("content-type")).toBe("text/plain; charset=utf-8");
+    expect(response.headers.get("location")).toBeNull();
+    expect(await response.text()).toBe(TOKEN);
+    expect((env as unknown as { CLOUD_WEB_WORKER: { fetch: ReturnType<typeof vi.fn> } })
+      .CLOUD_WEB_WORKER.fetch).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it("trims surrounding whitespace from the secret value", async () => {
+    const response = await worker.fetch(
+      new Request(CHALLENGE_URL),
+      buildEnv({ OPENAI_APPS_CHALLENGE_TOKEN: `  ${TOKEN}\n` }),
+      ctx,
+    );
+    expect(await response.text()).toBe(TOKEN);
+  });
+
+  it("answers HEAD with a 200 and no body", async () => {
+    const response = await worker.fetch(
+      new Request(CHALLENGE_URL, { method: "HEAD" }),
+      buildEnv({ OPENAI_APPS_CHALLENGE_TOKEN: TOKEN }),
+      ctx,
+    );
+    expect(response.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(await response.text()).toBe("");
+  });
+
+  it.each([undefined, "", "   "])("returns 404 when the secret is %j", async (value) => {
+    const response = await worker.fetch(
+      new Request(CHALLENGE_URL),
+      buildEnv({ OPENAI_APPS_CHALLENGE_TOKEN: value }),
+      ctx,
+    );
+    expect(response.status).toBe(404);
+    expect(await response.text()).not.toContain(TOKEN);
+  });
+
+  it("rejects non-GET methods without leaking the token", async () => {
+    const response = await worker.fetch(
+      new Request(CHALLENGE_URL, { method: "POST" }),
+      buildEnv({ OPENAI_APPS_CHALLENGE_TOKEN: TOKEN }),
+      ctx,
+    );
+    expect(response.status).toBe(405);
+    expect(await response.text()).not.toContain(TOKEN);
+  });
+
+  it("only answers on the agentrelay.com apex", async () => {
+    const upstream = vi.spyOn(globalThis, "fetch").mockResolvedValue(new Response("upstream", { status: 404 }));
+    const response = await worker.fetch(
+      new Request("https://arelay.to/.well-known/openai-apps-challenge"),
+      buildEnv({ OPENAI_APPS_CHALLENGE_TOKEN: TOKEN }),
+      ctx,
+    );
+    expect(await response.text()).not.toBe(TOKEN);
+    upstream.mockRestore();
+  });
+
+  it("does not serve the token on neighbouring paths", async () => {
+    const upstream = vi.spyOn(globalThis, "fetch").mockResolvedValue(new Response("upstream", { status: 404 }));
+    for (const path of [
+      "/.well-known/openai-apps-challenge/",
+      "/.well-known/openai-apps-challenge/x",
+      "/cloud/.well-known/openai-apps-challenge",
+    ]) {
+      const response = await worker.fetch(
+        new Request(`https://agentrelay.com${path}`),
+        buildEnv({ OPENAI_APPS_CHALLENGE_TOKEN: TOKEN }),
+        ctx,
+      );
+      expect(await response.text()).not.toBe(TOKEN);
+    }
+    upstream.mockRestore();
+  });
+});