diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/ci-deploy.yml b/.gitea/workflows/ci-deploy.yml
index 11670b4..86c18ac 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/ci-deploy.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/ci-deploy.yml
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ jobs:
           cache: 'npm'
           cache-dependency-path: job-tracker-ui/package-lock.json
 
+      - name: Test repository safety scripts
+        # Standard-library only and plan-only: this validates the synthetic benchmark harness
+        # without contacting Ollama, pulling a model, or requiring package installation.
+        run: python3 scripts/test-ollama-evaluation.py
+
       - name: Build backend
         run: dotnet build JobTrackerApi/JobTrackerApi.csproj --configuration Release
 
diff --git a/scripts/run-ollama-evaluation.py b/scripts/run-ollama-evaluation.py
index 84aeecc..77474c4 100644
--- a/scripts/run-ollama-evaluation.py
+++ b/scripts/run-ollama-evaluation.py
@@ -40,6 +40,22 @@ TASK_INSTRUCTIONS = {
 }
 
 
+class NoRedirectHandler(urllib.request.HTTPRedirectHandler):
+    """Keep a validated Ollama origin from redirecting a request elsewhere."""
+
+    def redirect_request(self, req, fp, code, msg, headers, newurl):  # noqa: ANN001
+        return None
+
+
+def build_http_opener() -> urllib.request.OpenerDirector:
+    # Do not inherit HTTP(S)_PROXY from the operator shell and never follow redirects. The
+    # explicitly validated loopback/private origin is the only network boundary this tool may use.
+    return urllib.request.build_opener(urllib.request.ProxyHandler({}), NoRedirectHandler())
+
+
+HTTP_OPENER = build_http_opener()
+
+
 def sha256_text(value: str) -> str:
     return hashlib.sha256(value.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()
 
@@ -115,7 +131,7 @@ def request_json(base_url: str, path: str, payload: dict[str, Any] | None = None
         headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"},
         method="GET" if data is None else "POST",
     )
-    with urllib.request.urlopen(request, timeout=timeout) as response:
+    with HTTP_OPENER.open(request, timeout=timeout) as response:
         return json.loads(response.read().decode("utf-8"))
 
 
@@ -130,7 +146,7 @@ def stream_generate(base_url: str, payload: dict[str, Any], timeout: float) -> t
     first_token_at: float | None = None
     parts: list[str] = []
     final: dict[str, Any] = {}
-    with urllib.request.urlopen(request, timeout=timeout) as response:
+    with HTTP_OPENER.open(request, timeout=timeout) as response:
         for raw_line in response:
             if not raw_line.strip():
                 continue
diff --git a/scripts/test-ollama-evaluation.py b/scripts/test-ollama-evaluation.py
index f4ec890..396fd08 100644
--- a/scripts/test-ollama-evaluation.py
+++ b/scripts/test-ollama-evaluation.py
@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ import importlib.util
 import json
 import tempfile
 import unittest
+import urllib.request
 from pathlib import Path
+from unittest import mock
 
 
 SCRIPT = Path(__file__).with_name("run-ollama-evaluation.py")
@@ -54,6 +56,13 @@ class OllamaEvaluationTests(unittest.TestCase):
             MODULE.validate_base_url("http://ollama:11434", True)
         self.assertEqual("http://192.168.1.20:11434", MODULE.validate_base_url("http://192.168.1.20:11434", True))
 
+    def test_http_opener_disables_proxies_and_redirects(self):
+        with mock.patch.object(urllib.request, "getproxies", side_effect=AssertionError("proxy discovery must stay disabled")):
+            opener = MODULE.build_http_opener()
+        self.assertFalse(any(isinstance(handler, urllib.request.ProxyHandler) for handler in opener.handlers))
+        self.assertTrue(any(isinstance(handler, MODULE.NoRedirectHandler) for handler in MODULE.HTTP_OPENER.handlers))
+        self.assertIsNone(MODULE.NoRedirectHandler().redirect_request(None, None, 302, "Found", {}, "http://example.invalid"))
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()