diff --git a/src/backend/services/auth/AuthService.test.ts b/src/backend/services/auth/AuthService.test.ts
index 25d24ad78..67f9f03e6 100644
--- a/src/backend/services/auth/AuthService.test.ts
+++ b/src/backend/services/auth/AuthService.test.ts
@@ -2296,6 +2296,34 @@ describe('AuthService (integration)', () => {
             expect(rows).toHaveLength(0);
         });
 
+        // Only a full-access token is admitted to a socket, so only its revoke
+        // is worth a cluster-wide eviction broadcast.
+        it('announces a revoked full-access token, and no other kind', async () => {
+            const user = await makeUser();
+            const actor = makeActor({
+                user: { id: user.id, uuid: user.uuid, username: user.username },
+            });
+            const emit = vi.spyOn(server.clients.event, 'emit');
+            const announced = () =>
+                emit.mock.calls.filter(
+                    (c) => c[0] === 'auth.access-token.revoked',
+                ).length;
+
+            const scoped = await authService.createAccessToken(actor, [
+                [`user:${user.uuid}:email:read`],
+            ]);
+            await authService.revokeAccessToken(actor, scoped);
+            expect(announced()).toBe(0);
+
+            const full = await authService.createAccessToken(actor, [
+                [FULL_API_ACCESS],
+            ]);
+            await authService.revokeAccessToken(actor, full);
+            expect(announced()).toBe(1);
+
+            emit.mockRestore();
+        });
+
         it('revokeAccessToken rejects with 404 when the token belongs to another user', async () => {
             const u1 = await makeUser();
             const u2 = await makeUser();
diff --git a/src/backend/services/auth/AuthService.ts b/src/backend/services/auth/AuthService.ts
index 310d41466..a5220a01f 100644
--- a/src/backend/services/auth/AuthService.ts
+++ b/src/backend/services/auth/AuthService.ts
@@ -1885,6 +1885,8 @@ export class AuthService extends PuterService {
         let tokenUid: string;
         let issuerUuidFromJwt: string | undefined;
         let sessionUidFromJwt: string | undefined;
+        // A uuid says nothing about the token; assume it held one.
+        let couldHoldSocket = true;
         const isJwt = /^[\w-]+\.[\w-]+\.[\w-]+$/.test(tokenOrUuid.trim());
         if (isJwt) {
             const decoded = this.services.token.verify<AccessTokenPayload>(
@@ -1899,6 +1901,7 @@ export class AuthService extends PuterService {
             tokenUid = decoded.token_uid;
             issuerUuidFromJwt = decoded.user_uid;
             sessionUidFromJwt = decoded.session_uid;
+            couldHoldSocket = !decoded.app_uid && decoded.full_access === true;
         } else {
             tokenUid = tokenOrUuid;
         }
@@ -1935,6 +1938,7 @@ export class AuthService extends PuterService {
             tokenUid,
             sessionUidFromJwt,
             sessionRow,
+            { couldHoldSocket },
         );
     }
 
@@ -2003,10 +2007,12 @@ export class AuthService extends PuterService {
             );
         }
 
+        // Full access is refused above, so nothing here ever held a socket.
         await this.#revokeAccessTokenTail(
             decoded.token_uid,
             decoded.session_uid,
             null,
+            { couldHoldSocket: false },
         );
     }
 
@@ -2052,6 +2058,7 @@ export class AuthService extends PuterService {
         tokenUid: string,
         sessionUidFromJwt: string | undefined,
         sessionRow: SessionRow | null,
+        opts: { couldHoldSocket?: boolean } = {},
     ): Promise<void> {
         await this.#dropAccessTokenGrants(tokenUid);
 
@@ -2068,12 +2075,14 @@ export class AuthService extends PuterService {
             if (row) await this.stores.session.removeByUuid(row.uuid);
         }
 
-        // `revoked_at` is otherwise only read at the next handshake.
-        this.clients.event?.emit(
-            'auth.access-token.revoked',
-            { token_uid: tokenUid },
-            {},
-        );
+        // Only a token the handshake admits has a socket to drop.
+        if (opts.couldHoldSocket !== false) {
+            this.clients.event?.emit(
+                'auth.access-token.revoked',
+                { token_uid: tokenUid },
+                {},
+            );
+        }
     }
 
     // -- Internals ---------------------------------------------------