diff --git a/internal/vision/vision.go b/internal/vision/vision.go
index eda0ad8..a1a4667 100644
--- a/internal/vision/vision.go
+++ b/internal/vision/vision.go
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"io"
 	"net"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/url"
@@ -93,6 +94,10 @@ func (Disabled) Describe(context.Context, media.Image, string) (string, error) {
 	return "", ErrDisabled
 }
 
+// MaxReplyBytes bounds what is read back from the vision server. A description
+// is words; anything past a megabyte is a broken endpoint.
+const MaxReplyBytes = 1 << 20
+
 // Config — how to reach the local vision server. Built from
 // config.VisionConfig by the daemon; kept separate so this package does not
 // import internal/config.
@@ -154,13 +159,31 @@ func NewLocal(cfg Config) (*LocalProvider, error) {
 		model:     cfg.Model,
 		prompt:    prompt,
 		maxTokens: maxTokens,
-		http:      &http.Client{Timeout: timeout},
+		http: &http.Client{
+			Timeout: timeout,
+			// No redirects. checkPrivate validates the configured literal and
+			// nothing validated a hop, so a 302 from the local llama-server
+			// would send the photo, as a data URI in the POST body, wherever
+			// the redirect named. "No provider in this repo may upload a blob"
+			// has to be true of the second request as well as the first.
+			CheckRedirect: func(*http.Request, []*http.Request) error {
+				return http.ErrUseLastResponse
+			},
+		},
 	}, nil
 }
 
 // Endpoint is the server this provider talks to. For logs and /dash.
 func (p *LocalProvider) Endpoint() string { return p.endpoint }
 
+// ValidateEndpoint reports whether a configured endpoint is one this package
+// would accept. Exported so config validation fails at startup on a typo,
+// rather than logging once at wiring time and leaving the capability quietly
+// off.
+func ValidateEndpoint(raw string) error {
+	return checkPrivate(strings.TrimRight(strings.TrimSpace(raw), "/"))
+}
+
 // checkPrivate refuses any endpoint that is not on this box or its LAN. A
 // hostname that is not an IP literal is refused too: "vision.example.com" could
 // resolve anywhere, and resolving it here would be trusting DNS with his photos.
@@ -260,7 +283,10 @@ func (p *LocalProvider) Describe(ctx context.Context, im media.Image, prompt str
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("vision: status %d", resp.StatusCode)
 	}
 	var out chatResp
-	if err := json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&out); err != nil {
+	// Capped: the decoder would otherwise read whatever the endpoint sends, and
+	// a local server answering with a stuck stream should not cost the daemon
+	// its memory. A description is a few hundred tokens.
+	if err := json.NewDecoder(io.LimitReader(resp.Body, MaxReplyBytes)).Decode(&out); err != nil {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("vision: decode: %w", err)
 	}
 	if len(out.Choices) == 0 {
diff --git a/internal/vision/vision_test.go b/internal/vision/vision_test.go
index 71787fc..a65cfc5 100644
--- a/internal/vision/vision_test.go
+++ b/internal/vision/vision_test.go
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 	"net/http"
 	"net/http/httptest"
 	"strings"
+	"sync/atomic"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
@@ -196,3 +197,72 @@ func TestDescribeErrors(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	})
 }
+
+// checkPrivate validates the configured literal and used to validate nothing
+// else. A 302 from the local llama-server would have sent the photo, as a data
+// URI in the POST body, wherever the redirect named.
+func TestLocalProviderDoesNotFollowARedirect(t *testing.T) {
+	var elsewhere int32
+	away := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		atomic.AddInt32(&elsewhere, 1)
+		_, _ = io.WriteString(w, `{"choices":[{"message":{"content":"leaked"}}]}`)
+	}))
+	defer away.Close()
+	local := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		http.Redirect(w, r, away.URL+"/v1/chat/completions", http.StatusFound)
+	}))
+	defer local.Close()
+
+	p, err := NewLocal(Config{Endpoint: local.URL})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	im := media.Image{JPEG: []byte{0xFF, 0xD8, 0xFF}}
+	if _, err := p.Describe(context.Background(), im, "что это"); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("a redirected describe must fail, not follow")
+	}
+	if n := atomic.LoadInt32(&elsewhere); n != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("the image was sent to the redirect target %d time(s)", n)
+	}
+}
+
+// The reply is read through a cap. A stuck endpoint should not cost the daemon
+// its memory.
+func TestLocalProviderCapsTheReply(t *testing.T) {
+	srv := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+		_, _ = io.WriteString(w, `{"choices":[{"message":{"content":"`)
+		for written := 0; written < MaxReplyBytes+(1<<20); written += 1 << 16 {
+			if _, err := io.WriteString(w, strings.Repeat("a", 1<<16)); err != nil {
+				return
+			}
+		}
+	}))
+	defer srv.Close()
+	p, err := NewLocal(Config{Endpoint: srv.URL})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	im := media.Image{JPEG: []byte{0xFF, 0xD8, 0xFF}}
+	if _, err := p.Describe(context.Background(), im, ""); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("an unbounded reply must fail rather than being read whole")
+	}
+}
+
+// ValidateEndpoint is what config calls at startup, and it must agree with the
+// constructor.
+func TestValidateEndpointMatchesTheConstructor(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, raw := range []string{"http://127.0.0.1:8081", "http://localhost:8081/"} {
+		if err := ValidateEndpoint(raw); err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("ValidateEndpoint(%q) = %v", raw, err)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, raw := range []string{"http://8.8.8.8:8081", "http://vision.example.com", "ftp://127.0.0.1"} {
+		if err := ValidateEndpoint(raw); err == nil {
+			t.Errorf("ValidateEndpoint(%q) accepted a non-private endpoint", raw)
+		}
+		if _, err := NewLocal(Config{Endpoint: raw}); err == nil {
+			t.Errorf("NewLocal(%q) accepted what ValidateEndpoint should refuse", raw)
+		}
+	}
+}