diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy-verify.yml b/.github/workflows/deploy-verify.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a49c08f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/deploy-verify.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+name: Deploy verify
+
+# Node Foyer identity lane (copies NodeVoice PR #10's pattern). Vercel's GitHub
+# integration posts deployment_status events with no secrets needed to read them.
+# `gh api repos/HomenShum/NodeBenchAI/deployments?per_page=5` shows this repo's
+# production environment name is the bare string "Production" (a single Vercel
+# project, nodebench-ai, deploys from this repo — unlike NodeVoice's two-project
+# case, no environment-name disambiguation is needed here).
+#
+# KNOWN HAZARD (FOYER-V3 council ruling): .github/workflows/post-deploy-verify.yml
+# in this same repo runs `npx vercel rollback --yes` on a failed PRODUCTION
+# deployment_status event, and also runs on a 6-hourly schedule. This workflow is
+# a separate file with `on: deployment_status` only (no `schedule:`, no
+# `workflow_dispatch:`) and has no rollback step at all, so it can never reach
+# post-deploy-verify.yml's rollback path in either direction: this workflow never
+# fires from the schedule (it isn't triggered by one), and a failure here has no
+# rollback step to run. The two workflows run independently on the same event.
+on:
+  deployment_status:
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  deployments: read
+
+jobs:
+  verify-live-identity:
+    if: >-
+      github.event.deployment_status.state == 'success' &&
+      github.event.deployment_status.environment == 'Production'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 5
+    steps:
+      - name: Poll the live meta tag for the deployed commit sha
+        env:
+          EXPECTED_SHA: ${{ github.event.deployment.sha }}
+          LIVE_URL: https://www.nodebenchai.com/
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          deadline=$((SECONDS + 180))
+          found=""
+          while [ "$SECONDS" -lt "$deadline" ]; do
+            body="$(curl -fsS --max-time 10 "$LIVE_URL" || true)"
+            found="$(printf '%s' "$body" | grep -oE '<meta name="nodebench-build-sha" content="[0-9a-f]{40}"' | grep -oE '[0-9a-f]{40}' || true)"
+            if [ "$found" = "$EXPECTED_SHA" ]; then
+              echo "Live meta matches deployed commit: $found"
+              exit 0
+            fi
+            sleep 10
+          done
+          echo "::error::nodebench-build-sha never matched the deployed commit ($EXPECTED_SHA); last seen: '${found:-<none>}'" >&2
+          exit 1
diff --git a/vite.config.ts b/vite.config.ts
index ada9664f..3678c7e2 100644
--- a/vite.config.ts
+++ b/vite.config.ts
@@ -6,8 +6,52 @@ import { visualizer } from "rollup-plugin-visualizer";
 import { imagetools } from "vite-imagetools";
 import { VitePWA } from "vite-plugin-pwa";
 import Critters from "critters";
+import { execFileSync } from "node:child_process";
 /// <reference types="vitest" />
 
+// Build identity, adapted from node-foyer's vite.config.ts (foyer-build-sha) via the
+// NodeVoice PR #10 pattern. Non-strict: falls back to "unavailable" rather than throwing
+// when no signal is available.
+const BUILD_SHA_PATTERN = /^[0-9a-f]{40}$/u;
+
+function resolveBuildSha(): string {
+  for (const value of [process.env.VERCEL_GIT_COMMIT_SHA, process.env.GITHUB_SHA]) {
+    const sha = value?.trim().toLowerCase();
+    if (sha && BUILD_SHA_PATTERN.test(sha)) return sha;
+  }
+  try {
+    const sha = execFileSync("git", ["rev-parse", "HEAD"], {
+      encoding: "utf8",
+      timeout: 5_000,
+      windowsHide: true,
+    }).trim();
+    if (BUILD_SHA_PATTERN.test(sha)) return sha;
+  } catch {
+    // fall through to unavailable
+  }
+  return "unavailable";
+}
+
+function buildIdentityMeta(): Plugin {
+  return {
+    name: "nodebench-build-identity",
+    transformIndexHtml() {
+      const sha = resolveBuildSha();
+      return [
+        {
+          tag: "meta",
+          attrs: {
+            name: "nodebench-build-sha",
+            content: sha,
+            "data-provenance": sha === "unavailable" ? "unavailable" : "commit",
+          },
+          injectTo: "head" as const,
+        },
+      ];
+    },
+  };
+}
+
 // Critical CSS plugin using Critters
 function criticalCSSPlugin(): Plugin {
   return {
@@ -177,6 +221,7 @@ export default defineConfig(({ mode }) => {
     envDir: __dirname,
     plugins: [
     react(),
+    buildIdentityMeta(),
     // Service Worker + PWA for aggressive caching
     VitePWA({
       registerType: 'autoUpdate',