diff --git a/services/imessage-bridge/src/session.ts b/services/imessage-bridge/src/session.ts
index 83f47cab..269720ba 100644
--- a/services/imessage-bridge/src/session.ts
+++ b/services/imessage-bridge/src/session.ts
@@ -5726,6 +5726,16 @@ export class IMessageSession {
         const sms = await this.sender.sendSMS(to, text);
         if (sms.ok) {
           this.logger.info({ to, lastService: st?.service, lastError: st?.error }, "pre-routed via SMS service (Text Message Forwarding) — iMessage not working for this contact");
+          // Audit the send HERE too: this branch returns before the outbound
+          // audit at the end of send(), so an RCS/SMS-only contact's replies
+          // were invisible to it. Caught by the first real end-to-end test —
+          // the reply landed, and the log that exists to measure reply quality
+          // had no record of it. Same shape as the main site so the two are
+          // greppable together.
+          this.logger.info(
+            { to, textPreview: text.slice(0, 160), len: text.length, botSelf: isBotSelfMessage(text), via: "sms-preroute" },
+            "outbound sent",
+          );
           this.recordBridgeSend(text);
           this.enqueueOutboundEcho(to, text);
           this.broadcast({ type: "agent_reply", data: { to, text, timestamp: Date.now() } });
diff --git a/services/imessage-bridge/src/silent-drop-audit.test.ts b/services/imessage-bridge/src/silent-drop-audit.test.ts
index 1e650cfb..be6dccc6 100644
--- a/services/imessage-bridge/src/silent-drop-audit.test.ts
+++ b/services/imessage-bridge/src/silent-drop-audit.test.ts
@@ -75,3 +75,25 @@ describe("no reply-suppressing path returns without a trace", () => {
     expect(src).toMatch(/this\.reportSilentDrops\(\);/);
   });
 });
+
+describe("every send path reaches the outbound audit log", () => {
+  const src = readFileSync(new URL("./session.ts", import.meta.url), "utf8");
+
+  it("the SMS pre-route branch audits before it returns", () => {
+    // Found by the first real end-to-end test: an RCS-only contact got a real
+    // reply via Text Message Forwarding, but the branch returns early — before
+    // the audit at the end of send() — so the log built to measure reply
+    // quality had no record of the one reply that proved the path works.
+    const branch = src.slice(src.indexOf("pre-routed via SMS service"));
+    const upToReturn = branch.slice(0, branch.indexOf("return { ok: true }"));
+    expect(upToReturn).toMatch(/"outbound sent"/);
+  });
+
+  it("send() has an audit line for each early return", () => {
+    const fn = src.slice(src.indexOf("pre-routed via SMS service") - 4000);
+    const body = fn.slice(0, fn.indexOf("private recordBridgeSend"));
+    const audits = (body.match(/"outbound sent"/g) || []).length;
+    // One for the SMS pre-route branch, one for the normal path.
+    expect(audits).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(2);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/services/whatsapp-bridge/src/session.ts b/services/whatsapp-bridge/src/session.ts
index 741d062e..a426e3f9 100644
--- a/services/whatsapp-bridge/src/session.ts
+++ b/services/whatsapp-bridge/src/session.ts
@@ -3486,6 +3486,16 @@ export class WhatsAppSession {
     }
     const sent = await this.socket.sendMessage(own, { text });
     if (sent?.key?.id) this.bridgeSentIds.set(sent.key.id, Date.now());
+    // Audit here too: sendSelf talks to the socket DIRECTLY rather than going
+    // through sendMessage, so owner-facing traffic (briefs, digests, drafts,
+    // drop notices) was absent from the audit log. Same omission as the
+    // iMessage SMS pre-route branch — a send path that bypasses the one place
+    // the audit lives. botSelf is nearly always true here, which is exactly
+    // what makes the "real reply vs machinery" ratio meaningful.
+    this.logger.info(
+      { to: own, textPreview: text.slice(0, 160), len: text.length, botSelf: isBotSelfMessage(text), via: "sendSelf" },
+      "outbound sent",
+    );
     // ponytail: owner briefs are serial, so a single last-key field is enough
     // for handleCenterCommand to remember/edit the Brief it just sent.
     this.lastSelfSentKey = sent?.key ?? undefined;
@@ -7198,6 +7208,13 @@ export class WhatsAppSession {
     if (!own || !this.socket) return;
     try {
       const sent = await this.socket.sendMessage(own, { text });
+      // Audit: confirmToSelf is the owner's MAIN reply channel on WhatsApp and
+      // it talks to the socket directly, like sendSelf. Without this the audit
+      // log sees almost no owner-side WhatsApp traffic at all.
+      this.logger.info(
+        { to: own, textPreview: text.slice(0, 160), len: text.length, botSelf: isBotSelfMessage(text), via: "confirmToSelf" },
+        "outbound sent",
+      );
       if (sent?.key?.id) {
         this.bridgeSentIds.set(sent.key.id, Date.now());
         // Best-effort retry-tracking: confirmToSelf is called from many