diff --git a/scripts/verify_corpus.py b/scripts/verify_corpus.py
index 9ac8550..af30fd6 100644
--- a/scripts/verify_corpus.py
+++ b/scripts/verify_corpus.py
@@ -444,10 +444,16 @@ def validate(root: Path) -> list[dict[str, str]]:
                 problems.append(
                     issue(CRITERIA[0], "giant_fixture_too_small", relative, str(len(content)), "regenerate a fixture of at least 1,000,000 bytes")
                 )
-        for label, pattern in SECRET_PATTERNS.items():
+        for pattern in SECRET_PATTERNS.values():
             if pattern.search(content):
                 problems.append(
-                    issue(CRITERIA[0], "possible_secret_in_fixture", relative, label, "replace the content with an unmistakably synthetic non-secret value")
+                    issue(
+                        CRITERIA[0],
+                        "possible_secret_in_fixture",
+                        relative,
+                        "Sensitive pattern detected; fixture bytes and category withheld",
+                        "replace the content with an unmistakably synthetic non-secret value",
+                    )
                 )
         for label, pattern in PII_PATTERNS.items():
             if pattern.search(content):
diff --git a/tests/test_corpus.py b/tests/test_corpus.py
index db249b4..cb0f169 100644
--- a/tests/test_corpus.py
+++ b/tests/test_corpus.py
@@ -173,9 +173,19 @@ def test_secret_privacy_and_unsafe_content_scans_fail_closed(self) -> None:
         fixture["byte_count"] = path.stat().st_size
         fixture["sha256"] = hashlib.sha256(path.read_bytes()).hexdigest()
         self.write_manifest(root, manifest)
-        codes = self.codes(root)
+        problems = VERIFY.validate(root)
+        codes = {problem["code"] for problem in problems}
         self.assertIn("possible_secret_in_fixture", codes)
         self.assertIn("possible_pii_in_fixture", codes)
+        secret_messages = {
+            problem["message"]
+            for problem in problems
+            if problem["code"] == "possible_secret_in_fixture"
+        }
+        self.assertEqual(
+            {"Sensitive pattern detected; fixture bytes and category withheld"},
+            secret_messages,
+        )
 
     def test_giant_json_and_jsonl_are_both_present(self) -> None:
         manifest = self.load_manifest(ROOT)