diff --git a/deploy/maven-voice-tunnel.service b/deploy/maven-voice-tunnel.service
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+# maven-voice-tunnel — the ssh leg that carries the voice wire to homesrv.
+#
+# Runs on workpc, as a user unit (`systemctl --user`), beside mavgpud.service.
+#
+# WHY THIS EXISTS AT ALL. internal/voice is plaintext and unauthenticated.
+# Its own server doc says production binds inside the wg tunnel, because "the
+# wg layer IS the L0 floor". workpc is not a wg peer, it sits on wlan0. So ssh
+# is the substitute floor: it authenticates with his key and encrypts the leg,
+# and mavend's published port stays on homesrv loopback (127.0.0.1:9110).
+# Nothing about this puts a Maven port on the LAN.
+#
+# Do not replace this with a LAN bind. SurfaceVoice caps acts at L0, so an
+# unauthorized speaker could not run a destructive tool. It would still hear
+# his facts, his notes and his calendar read back, and L0 does not cap reading.
+#
+#   install: cp to ~/.config/systemd/user/ on workpc
+#            systemctl --user enable --now maven-voice-tunnel.service
+
+[Unit]
+Description=SSH tunnel to mavend's voice wire on homesrv
+After=network-online.target
+Wants=network-online.target
+
+[Service]
+# -N: no remote command, forwarding only.
+# ExitOnForwardFailure: fail loudly rather than sit up with a dead forward,
+# which is what makes Restart meaningful.
+# ServerAlive*: a laptop that suspends drops the tunnel silently otherwise.
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/ssh -N \
+  -o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes \
+  -o ServerAliveInterval=30 \
+  -o ServerAliveCountMax=3 \
+  -o BatchMode=yes \
+  -L 127.0.0.1:9100:127.0.0.1:9110 \
+  kami@192.168.1.104
+Restart=always
+RestartSec=5
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=default.target
diff --git a/deploy/mavwaked.service b/deploy/mavwaked.service
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+# mavwaked — always-on listening, on workpc where the microphone is.
+#
+# User unit, beside mavgpud.service and maven-voice-tunnel.service. It is a
+# user unit because it needs his ALSA session and his ssh agent, and because
+# it should stop when he logs out.
+#
+# THERE IS NO WAKE WORD YET (V-487 stage two). Anything spoken near the fifine
+# becomes a turn. What makes that safe rather than expensive is voiceSender:
+# it sends Surface=SurfaceVoice, which caps every command at L0, so no
+# accidental trigger runs a destructive act. It does not stop her answering
+# out loud, so this unit is his to stop when the room is not his alone.
+#
+# -vad-model is passed on purpose. Silero answers "is this frame speech" where
+# the energy floor answers "is this frame loud". It declines white noise at
+# the same RMS 0 frames to 68-99, and still hears all four spoken fixtures
+# (docs/evals/2026-08-09-silero-vad.md). It costs 509us a frame, 1.7% of one
+# core, and never touches the GPU. Drop the flag and the energy floor is back.
+#
+# -barge-in is NOT passed. The threshold is room-specific and this room has no
+# number yet. Turn it on only after reading the "suppressed while speaking"
+# means out of this unit's own journal, never by guessing.
+#
+#   install: cp to ~/.config/systemd/user/ on workpc
+#            systemctl --user enable --now mavwaked.service
+
+[Unit]
+Description=Maven always-on listening (VAD, no wake word yet)
+# The tunnel is the only path to mavend and the only thing authenticating it.
+Requires=maven-voice-tunnel.service
+After=maven-voice-tunnel.service
+
+[Service]
+# card 0 is the fifine USB microphone. Named, and not "default", because the
+# default device follows whatever pipewire last decided and this daemon should
+# not change ears when he plugs in a headset.
+#
+# plughw and not hw. mavwaked asks arecord for 16kHz mono, which is what the
+# whole pipeline is canonical in. The fifine offers 2 channels at 44100 or
+# 48000 and nothing else, so bare hw:0,0 dies on "Channels count non
+# available" before a frame is read. plughw puts ALSA's downmix and resampler
+# in front. Any replacement microphone wants the same treatment.
+Environment=LD_LIBRARY_PATH=%h/.local/lib
+ExecStart=%h/.local/bin/mavwaked \
+  -device plughw:0,0 \
+  -addr 127.0.0.1:9100 \
+  -lang ru \
+  -vad-model %h/.local/share/maven/models/silero_vad.onnx \
+  -onnx-lib %h/.local/lib/libonnxruntime.so
+Restart=on-failure
+RestartSec=5
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=default.target
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 2eedef6..9d3f9d6 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -53,6 +53,19 @@ services:
     # the decrypted working copy lives in RAM (see db_tmpfs in mavend.json).
     tmpfs:
       - /dev/shm
+    # the voice wire, for mavwaked and mavenclient on workpc (V-515).
+    #
+    # LOOPBACK ONLY, and that is the whole security argument. internal/voice
+    # is plaintext with no auth: its own server doc says production binds
+    # inside the wg tunnel, "the wg layer IS the L0 floor". workpc is not a wg
+    # peer, it is on wlan0. So the tunnel is ssh instead, terminated on this
+    # loopback address, and nothing new is on the LAN. Anyone who could reach
+    # a LAN-bound port here could push audio and hear his facts read back.
+    # SurfaceVoice caps acts at L0; it does not cap reading.
+    #
+    # Host 9100 is Vikunja's MCP, hence 9110. The container side stays 9100
+    # so mavweb keeps reaching mavend:9100 by name.
+    ports: ["127.0.0.1:9110:9100"]
 
   mavsttd:
     <<: *image