diff --git a/nest-mcp/src/index.ts b/nest-mcp/src/index.ts
index 678d609c3..916eac8a7 100644
--- a/nest-mcp/src/index.ts
+++ b/nest-mcp/src/index.ts
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ export {
   type McpAccessPolicy,
   type McpAccessPredicate,
   type McpAccessValidator,
+  type McpAttachOptions,
   type McpContext,
   type McpDeclarativeAccess,
   type McpEntry,
diff --git a/nest-mcp/src/registry.ts b/nest-mcp/src/registry.ts
index ba8d09271..eb789d12d 100644
--- a/nest-mcp/src/registry.ts
+++ b/nest-mcp/src/registry.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { getEntry, isMcpController, type ClassRef } from './metadata';
 import type {
   McpAccessPolicy,
   McpAccessValidator,
+  McpAttachOptions,
   McpContext,
   McpEntry,
   McpRegistryListing,
@@ -98,25 +99,26 @@ export class McpRegistry {
 
   /**
    * Registers every entry passing its access check onto `server`, binding
-   * `ctx` as the handler's last argument (in the SDK `extra` slot).
+   * `ctx` as the handler's last argument (in the SDK `extra` slot). `opts`
+   * carries per-session hooks — see `McpAttachOptions`.
    */
-  attach(server: McpServer, ctx: McpContext): void {
+  attach(server: McpServer, ctx: McpContext, opts?: McpAttachOptions): void {
     const registrar = server as unknown as LooseRegistrar;
     for (const { entry, instance } of this.bound) {
       if (!this.allowed(entry, ctx, instance)) continue;
       const handler = (instance as unknown as Record<string, AnyHandler>)[entry.methodName];
       switch (entry.kind) {
         case 'tool':
-          this.attachTool(registrar, entry.options, instance, handler, ctx);
+          this.attachTool(registrar, entry.options, instance, handler, ctx, opts);
           break;
         case 'resource':
-          this.attachResource(registrar, entry.options, instance, handler, ctx);
+          this.attachResource(registrar, entry.options, instance, handler, ctx, opts);
           break;
         case 'resourceTemplate':
-          this.attachResourceTemplate(registrar, entry.options, instance, handler, ctx);
+          this.attachResourceTemplate(registrar, entry.options, instance, handler, ctx, opts);
           break;
         case 'prompt':
-          this.attachPrompt(registrar, entry.options, instance, handler, ctx);
+          this.attachPrompt(registrar, entry.options, instance, handler, ctx, opts);
           break;
       }
     }
@@ -206,6 +208,7 @@ export class McpRegistry {
     instance: object,
     handler: AnyHandler,
     ctx: McpContext,
+    opts?: McpAttachOptions,
   ): void {
     const config: Record<string, unknown> = {
       title: options.title,
@@ -220,8 +223,14 @@ export class McpRegistry {
     // the decorated method always receives (args, ctx).
     const cb =
       options.inputSchema !== undefined
-        ? (args: unknown, _extra: unknown) => handler.call(instance, args, ctx)
-        : (_extra: unknown) => handler.call(instance, {}, ctx);
+        ? (args: unknown, _extra: unknown) => {
+            opts?.onInvoke?.({ kind: 'tool', name: options.name });
+            return handler.call(instance, args, ctx);
+          }
+        : (_extra: unknown) => {
+            opts?.onInvoke?.({ kind: 'tool', name: options.name });
+            return handler.call(instance, {}, ctx);
+          };
     registrar.registerTool(options.name, config, cb);
   }
 
@@ -231,6 +240,7 @@ export class McpRegistry {
     instance: object,
     handler: AnyHandler,
     ctx: McpContext,
+    opts?: McpAttachOptions,
   ): void {
     const metadata: Record<string, unknown> = {
       title: options.title,
@@ -238,9 +248,10 @@ export class McpRegistry {
       mimeType: options.mimeType,
       _meta: options._meta,
     };
-    registrar.registerResource(options.name, options.uri, metadata, (uri: unknown, _extra: unknown) =>
-      handler.call(instance, uri, ctx),
-    );
+    registrar.registerResource(options.name, options.uri, metadata, (uri: unknown, _extra: unknown) => {
+      opts?.onInvoke?.({ kind: 'resource', name: options.name });
+      return handler.call(instance, uri, ctx);
+    });
   }
 
   private attachResourceTemplate(
@@ -249,6 +260,7 @@ export class McpRegistry {
     instance: object,
     handler: AnyHandler,
     ctx: McpContext,
+    opts?: McpAttachOptions,
   ): void {
     const metadata: Record<string, unknown> = {
       title: options.title,
@@ -260,7 +272,10 @@ export class McpRegistry {
       options.name,
       new SdkResourceTemplate(options.uriTemplate, { list: undefined }),
       metadata,
-      (uri: unknown, variables: unknown, _extra: unknown) => handler.call(instance, uri, variables, ctx),
+      (uri: unknown, variables: unknown, _extra: unknown) => {
+        opts?.onInvoke?.({ kind: 'resourceTemplate', name: options.name });
+        return handler.call(instance, uri, variables, ctx);
+      },
     );
   }
 
@@ -270,6 +285,7 @@ export class McpRegistry {
     instance: object,
     handler: AnyHandler,
     ctx: McpContext,
+    opts?: McpAttachOptions,
   ): void {
     const config: Record<string, unknown> = {
       title: options.title,
@@ -278,8 +294,14 @@ export class McpRegistry {
     };
     const cb =
       options.argsSchema !== undefined
-        ? (args: unknown, _extra: unknown) => handler.call(instance, args, ctx)
-        : (_extra: unknown) => handler.call(instance, {}, ctx);
+        ? (args: unknown, _extra: unknown) => {
+            opts?.onInvoke?.({ kind: 'prompt', name: options.name });
+            return handler.call(instance, args, ctx);
+          }
+        : (_extra: unknown) => {
+            opts?.onInvoke?.({ kind: 'prompt', name: options.name });
+            return handler.call(instance, {}, ctx);
+          };
     registrar.registerPrompt(options.name, config, cb);
   }
 }
diff --git a/nest-mcp/src/types.ts b/nest-mcp/src/types.ts
index 7ebd2fb6e..bf16e05ff 100644
--- a/nest-mcp/src/types.ts
+++ b/nest-mcp/src/types.ts
@@ -133,6 +133,19 @@ export interface PromptOptions extends McpEntryOptionsBase {
 
 export type McpEntryKind = 'tool' | 'resource' | 'resourceTemplate' | 'prompt';
 
+/** Per-session options for `McpRegistry.attach()`. */
+export interface McpAttachOptions {
+  /**
+   * Called immediately before every attached handler runs, with the entry's
+   * kind and registered name. This is the host's observability seam (e.g. a
+   * tool-call audit trail) — nest-mcp itself attaches no semantics to it.
+   * Contract: the hook MUST NOT throw; nest-mcp does not catch, so a throwing
+   * hook fails the very invocation it is observing. Hosts wrap their own
+   * failure handling.
+   */
+  onInvoke?: (info: { kind: McpEntryKind; name: string }) => void;
+}
+
 export type McpEntry =
   | { kind: 'tool'; methodName: string; options: ToolOptions }
   | { kind: 'resource'; methodName: string; options: ResourceOptions }
diff --git a/nest-mcp/tests/attach.test.ts b/nest-mcp/tests/attach.test.ts
index 553e73d0c..74d966030 100644
--- a/nest-mcp/tests/attach.test.ts
+++ b/nest-mcp/tests/attach.test.ts
@@ -250,3 +250,50 @@ describe('McpRegistry.attach', () => {
     ).toThrow(/declares declarative access but no accessPolicy was configured/);
   });
 });
+
+describe('McpAttachOptions.onInvoke', () => {
+  let harness: AttachHarness | undefined;
+  afterEach(async () => {
+    await harness?.cleanup();
+    harness = undefined;
+  });
+
+  const fullCtx: TestCtx = { userId: 7, canRead: true, canWrite: true, allow: true };
+
+  it('fires once per invocation with the entry kind and name — attach and listing stay silent', async () => {
+    const seen: Array<{ kind: string; name: string }> = [];
+    harness = await createAttachHarness(buildRegistry(), fullCtx, { onInvoke: (info) => seen.push(info) });
+    // Neither attach() nor the initialize handshake is an invocation.
+    expect(seen).toEqual([]);
+
+    await harness.client.callTool({ name: 'open_tool', arguments: {} });
+    expect(seen).toEqual([{ kind: 'tool', name: 'open_tool' }]);
+
+    // The inputSchema'd tool goes through the other normalization branch.
+    await harness.client.callTool({ name: 'read_tool', arguments: { name: 'x' } });
+    expect(seen[1]).toEqual({ kind: 'tool', name: 'read_tool' });
+
+    await harness.client.readResource({ uri: 'test://doc' });
+    expect(seen[2]).toEqual({ kind: 'resource', name: 'fixture_doc' });
+
+    await harness.client.readResource({ uri: 'test://item/5' });
+    expect(seen[3]).toEqual({ kind: 'resourceTemplate', name: 'fixture_item' });
+
+    await harness.client.getPrompt({ name: 'fixture_prompt', arguments: { topic: 't' } });
+    expect(seen[4]).toEqual({ kind: 'prompt', name: 'fixture_prompt' });
+
+    // Listing is not an invocation.
+    await harness.client.listTools();
+    expect(seen).toHaveLength(5);
+  });
+
+  it('runs before the handler, so a throwing hook fails the invocation it observes', async () => {
+    harness = await createAttachHarness(buildRegistry(), fullCtx, {
+      onInvoke: () => {
+        throw new Error('audit exploded');
+      },
+    });
+    const result = await harness.client.callTool({ name: 'open_tool', arguments: {} });
+    expect((result as { isError?: boolean }).isError).toBe(true);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/nest-mcp/tests/harness.ts b/nest-mcp/tests/harness.ts
index a66b3ccbd..68aee898e 100644
--- a/nest-mcp/tests/harness.ts
+++ b/nest-mcp/tests/harness.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import type { McpContext, McpRegistry } from '../src';
+import type { McpAttachOptions, McpContext, McpRegistry } from '../src';
 import { Client } from '@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/client/index';
 import { InMemoryTransport } from '@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/inMemory';
 import { McpServer } from '@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/server/mcp';
@@ -20,9 +20,13 @@ export interface AttachHarness {
 }
 
 /** Bare McpServer + Client over an in-memory transport with the registry attached. */
-export async function createAttachHarness(registry: McpRegistry, ctx: TestCtx): Promise<AttachHarness> {
+export async function createAttachHarness(
+  registry: McpRegistry,
+  ctx: TestCtx,
+  opts?: McpAttachOptions,
+): Promise<AttachHarness> {
   const server = new McpServer({ name: 'nest-mcp-test', version: '1.0.0' });
-  registry.attach(server, asCtx(ctx));
+  registry.attach(server, asCtx(ctx), opts);
 
   const [clientTransport, serverTransport] = InMemoryTransport.createLinkedPair();
   const client = new Client({ name: 'test-client', version: '1.0.0' });
diff --git a/server/src/mcp/sessionManager.ts b/server/src/mcp/sessionManager.ts
index cad993b5e..f71b15f39 100644
--- a/server/src/mcp/sessionManager.ts
+++ b/server/src/mcp/sessionManager.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ export interface McpSession {
   /** true when authenticated via static trek_ token — triggers deprecation prompt */
   isStaticToken: boolean;
   lastActivity: number;
+  /** IP of the most recent authorized request — what mcp.tool_call audit rows record */
+  lastClientIp: string | null;
 }
 
 export const sessions = new Map<string, McpSession>();
diff --git a/server/src/mcp/tools.ts b/server/src/mcp/tools.ts
index f0f3cb832..e2d05f453 100644
--- a/server/src/mcp/tools.ts
+++ b/server/src/mcp/tools.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { McpServer } from '@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/server/mcp';
-import type { McpRegistry } from '@trek/nest-mcp';
+import type { McpAttachOptions, McpRegistry } from '@trek/nest-mcp';
 
-export function registerTools(registry: McpRegistry | null, server: McpServer, userId: number, scopes: string[] | null, isStaticToken = false, getDeprecationNotice: () => string | null = () => null): void {
+export function registerTools(registry: McpRegistry | null, server: McpServer, userId: number, scopes: string[] | null, isStaticToken = false, getDeprecationNotice: () => string | null = () => null, onInvoke?: McpAttachOptions['onInvoke']): void {
   // The trip tools moved to the DI-discovered src/nest/trips/trips.mcp.ts and
   // the share-link tools to src/nest/share/share.mcp.ts (@McpController,
   // attached via the nest-mcp registry below — getDeprecationNotice rides the
@@ -65,5 +65,5 @@ export function registerTools(registry: McpRegistry | null, server: McpServer, u
   // container-discovered McpRegistryService (injected into the transport
   // service); the no-Nest harness hands in createTestRegistry()'s build.
   // A null registry (direct callers without either) ⇒ skip.
-  if (registry) registry.attach(server, { userId, scopes, isStaticToken, getDeprecationNotice });
+  if (registry) registry.attach(server, { userId, scopes, isStaticToken, getDeprecationNotice }, { onInvoke });
 }
diff --git a/server/src/nest/mcp-transport/mcp-transport.module.ts b/server/src/nest/mcp-transport/mcp-transport.module.ts
index bddc76739..554b673a9 100644
--- a/server/src/nest/mcp-transport/mcp-transport.module.ts
+++ b/server/src/nest/mcp-transport/mcp-transport.module.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { AuthModule } from '../auth/auth.module';
 import { TokensModule } from '../tokens/tokens.module';
 import { OauthModule } from '../oauth/oauth.module';
 import { AddonsModule } from '../addons/addons.module';
+import { AuditModule } from '../audit/audit.module';
 
 /**
  * The /mcp transport endpoint — the OAuth 2.1-authenticated MCP server the
@@ -14,7 +15,7 @@ import { AddonsModule } from '../addons/addons.module';
  * bearer verification, session create/resume, rate limiting, SSE keep-alive.
  */
 @Module({
-  imports: [AuthModule, TokensModule, OauthModule, AddonsModule],
+  imports: [AuthModule, TokensModule, OauthModule, AddonsModule, AuditModule],
   controllers: [McpTransportController],
   providers: [McpTransportService],
 })
diff --git a/server/src/nest/mcp-transport/mcp-transport.service.ts b/server/src/nest/mcp-transport/mcp-transport.service.ts
index 2335adaf6..d919616b1 100644
--- a/server/src/nest/mcp-transport/mcp-transport.service.ts
+++ b/server/src/nest/mcp-transport/mcp-transport.service.ts
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ import { AuthService } from '../auth/auth.service';
 import { TokenService } from '../tokens/token.service';
 import { OauthService } from '../oauth/oauth.service';
 import { AddonsService } from '../addons/addons.service';
+import { AuditService } from '../audit/audit.service';
+import { getClientIp } from '../audit/client-ip';
 
 /**
  * The MCP transport handler behind the container — the former non-Nest
@@ -99,6 +101,7 @@ export class McpTransportService {
     private readonly tokens: TokenService,
     private readonly oauth: OauthService,
     private readonly addons: AddonsService,
+    private readonly audit: AuditService,
     private readonly registry: McpRegistryService,
   ) {}
 
@@ -174,6 +177,7 @@ export class McpTransportService {
         return;
       }
       session.lastActivity = Date.now();
+      session.lastClientIp = getClientIp(req);
       armSseKeepalive(res, () => { session.lastActivity = Date.now(); });
       try {
         await session.transport.handleRequest(req, res, req.body);
@@ -238,12 +242,37 @@ export class McpTransportService {
       return STATIC_TOKEN_DEPRECATION_NOTICE;
     };
 
-    registerTools(this.registry, server, user.id, scopes, isStaticToken, getDeprecationNotice);
+    // Tool-call audit trail: who called which tool, when, from where. Fired by
+    // the registry immediately before each tool handler runs (the nest-mcp
+    // onInvoke seam) — transport-level body sniffing can't see tool names
+    // because /mcp bodies are raw. The IP is the session's most recent
+    // authorized request (tool calls arrive on resumed requests); an audit
+    // failure must never fail the tool call, so the closure catches its own.
+    const createIp = getClientIp(req);
+    const transportHolder: { current: StreamableHTTPServerTransport | null } = { current: null };
+    const onInvoke = (info: { kind: string; name: string }): void => {
+      if (info.kind !== 'tool') return;
+      try {
+        const sid = transportHolder.current?.sessionId;
+        const ip = (sid ? sessions.get(sid)?.lastClientIp : null) ?? createIp;
+        this.audit.writeAudit({
+          userId: user.id,
+          action: 'mcp.tool_call',
+          resource: info.name,
+          details: { clientId: clientId ?? 'native' },
+          ip,
+        });
+      } catch (err) {
+        console.error('[MCP] tool-call audit failed:', (err as Error | undefined)?.message ?? err);
+      }
+    };
+
+    registerTools(this.registry, server, user.id, scopes, isStaticToken, getDeprecationNotice, onInvoke);
 
     const transport = new StreamableHTTPServerTransport({
       sessionIdGenerator: () => randomUUID(),
       onsessioninitialized: (sid) => {
-        sessions.set(sid, { server, transport, userId: user.id, scopes, clientId, isStaticToken, lastActivity: Date.now() });
+        sessions.set(sid, { server, transport, userId: user.id, scopes, clientId, isStaticToken, lastActivity: Date.now(), lastClientIp: createIp });
         const authMethod = isStaticToken ? 'static-token' : scopes ? `oauth(${scopes.join(',')})` : 'jwt';
         console.log(`[MCP] Session ${sid} created for user ${user.id} [${authMethod}]. Active sessions: ${sessions.size}`);
       },
@@ -255,6 +284,7 @@ export class McpTransportService {
     transport.onclose = () => {
       if (transport.sessionId) sessions.delete(transport.sessionId);
     };
+    transportHolder.current = transport;
 
     armSseKeepalive(res);
     try {
diff --git a/server/tests/integration/mcp.test.ts b/server/tests/integration/mcp.test.ts
index 06bd0b0fd..906086795 100644
--- a/server/tests/integration/mcp.test.ts
+++ b/server/tests/integration/mcp.test.ts
@@ -458,6 +458,55 @@ describe('MCP transport parity pins (Nest-hosted /mcp)', () => {
     expect(second.text).not.toContain('Deprecated authentication');
   });
 
+  it('MCP-P13 — an authorized tools/call writes exactly one mcp.tool_call audit row', async () => {
+    const { user } = createUser(testDb);
+    const { accessToken, clientId } = mintOauthToken(user.id, MCP_AUDIENCE);
+    const sessionId = await createSession(accessToken);
+    testDb.prepare("DELETE FROM audit_log WHERE action = 'mcp.tool_call'").run();
+
+    const call = await request(app)
+      .post('/mcp')
+      .set('Authorization', `Bearer ${accessToken}`)
+      .set('mcp-session-id', sessionId)
+      .set('Accept', 'application/json, text/event-stream')
+      .send({ jsonrpc: '2.0', method: 'tools/call', id: 3, params: { name: 'list_trips', arguments: {} } });
+    expect(call.status).toBe(200);
+
+    const rows = testDb.prepare(
+      "SELECT user_id, action, resource, details FROM audit_log WHERE action = 'mcp.tool_call'",
+    ).all() as Array<{ user_id: number; action: string; resource: string; details: string }>;
+    expect(rows).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(rows[0].user_id).toBe(user.id);
+    expect(rows[0].resource).toBe('list_trips');
+    expect(JSON.parse(rows[0].details)).toEqual({ clientId });
+  });
+
+  it('MCP-P14 — tools/list and resource reads write no mcp.tool_call rows', async () => {
+    const { user } = createUser(testDb);
+    const token = generateToken(user.id);
+    const sessionId = await createSession(token);
+    testDb.prepare("DELETE FROM audit_log WHERE action = 'mcp.tool_call'").run();
+
+    const list = await request(app)
+      .post('/mcp')
+      .set('Authorization', `Bearer ${token}`)
+      .set('mcp-session-id', sessionId)
+      .set('Accept', 'application/json, text/event-stream')
+      .send({ jsonrpc: '2.0', method: 'tools/list', id: 2, params: {} });
+    expect(list.status).toBe(200);
+
+    const read = await request(app)
+      .post('/mcp')
+      .set('Authorization', `Bearer ${token}`)
+      .set('mcp-session-id', sessionId)
+      .set('Accept', 'application/json, text/event-stream')
+      .send({ jsonrpc: '2.0', method: 'resources/list', id: 3, params: {} });
+    expect(read.status).toBe(200);
+
+    const rows = testDb.prepare("SELECT id FROM audit_log WHERE action = 'mcp.tool_call'").all();
+    expect(rows).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+
   it('MCP-P10 — /mcp bodies stay raw: an initialize payload over the global 100kb cap succeeds', async () => {
     const { user } = createUser(testDb);
     const big = {
diff --git a/server/tests/unit/mcp/sessionManager.test.ts b/server/tests/unit/mcp/sessionManager.test.ts
index eebd3e39d..b451aaaf4 100644
--- a/server/tests/unit/mcp/sessionManager.test.ts
+++ b/server/tests/unit/mcp/sessionManager.test.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ function makeSession(overrides: Partial<McpSession> = {}): McpSession {
     clientId: null,
     isStaticToken: false,
     lastActivity: Date.now(),
+    lastClientIp: null,
     ...overrides,
   };
 }
diff --git a/server/tests/unit/nest/mcp-transport.service.test.ts b/server/tests/unit/nest/mcp-transport.service.test.ts
index 1972e9927..58014a27c 100644
--- a/server/tests/unit/nest/mcp-transport.service.test.ts
+++ b/server/tests/unit/nest/mcp-transport.service.test.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import type { AuthService } from '../../../src/nest/auth/auth.service';
 import type { TokenService } from '../../../src/nest/tokens/token.service';
 import type { OauthService } from '../../../src/nest/oauth/oauth.service';
 import type { AddonsService } from '../../../src/nest/addons/addons.service';
+import type { AuditService } from '../../../src/nest/audit/audit.service';
 import type { McpRegistryService } from '@trek/nest-mcp';
 import { IS_PUBLIC } from '../../../src/nest/auth/public.decorator';
 
@@ -39,8 +40,9 @@ function makeService(overrides: {
   const tokens = { verifyMcpToken: vi.fn(() => null), ...overrides.tokens } as unknown as TokenService;
   const oauth = { getUserByAccessToken: vi.fn(() => null), ...overrides.oauth } as unknown as OauthService;
   const addons = { isAddonEnabled: vi.fn(() => true), ...overrides.addons } as unknown as AddonsService;
+  const audit = { writeAudit: vi.fn() } as unknown as AuditService;
   const registry = { attach: vi.fn() } as unknown as McpRegistryService;
-  return { svc: new McpTransportService(auth, tokens, oauth, addons, registry), auth, tokens, oauth, addons };
+  return { svc: new McpTransportService(auth, tokens, oauth, addons, audit, registry), auth, tokens, oauth, addons, audit };
 }
 
 beforeEach(() => {