diff --git a/docs/development/agent-workflow.md b/docs/development/agent-workflow.md
index 1f6a857ae..5a44a2f1d 100644
--- a/docs/development/agent-workflow.md
+++ b/docs/development/agent-workflow.md
@@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ from package exemptions. Recognized extensionless guidance names (including AGEN
 CLAUDE, INSTRUCTIONS, README, CONTRIBUTING and SECURITY, case-insensitively) are excluded in package subpaths too. URL-encoded
 paths do not receive package exemptions. TypeScript configuration is parsed as JSONC.
 Declared packages also permit safe subpaths; exact aliases stay exact.
-Federated handles in the @user@host form are prose, not imports.
+Federated handles in the @user@host form are prose, not imports; trailing closing
+punctuation is ignored, but extra at-signs do not qualify for that exemption.
 Exact declared packages remain exempt after version normalization.
 Declared package mentions may include a version (including semver comparators and wildcard ranges) or dist-tag qualifier.
 Qualifier handling includes unscoped names; terminal sentence punctuation is
diff --git a/tools/skills/validate-agent-guidance.mjs b/tools/skills/validate-agent-guidance.mjs
index 0b8169546..5c4f93b5c 100644
--- a/tools/skills/validate-agent-guidance.mjs
+++ b/tools/skills/validate-agent-guidance.mjs
@@ -227,8 +227,8 @@ export async function validateAgentGuidance({ rootDir }) {
                 const token = match[1];
                 if (isPackageMention(token)) continue;
                 if (
-                    /^[\w.-]+@(?:[a-z\d](?:[a-z\d-]*[a-z\d])?\.)+[a-z]{2,}[.,;!?]?$/iu.test(
-                        token
+                    /^[\w.-]+@(?:[a-z\d](?:[a-z\d-]*[a-z\d])?\.)+[a-z]{2,}$/iu.test(
+                        token.replace(/[.,;:!?\)\]\}"'”’]+$/gu, '')
                     )
                 )
                     continue;
diff --git a/tools/skills/validate-agent-guidance.test.mjs b/tools/skills/validate-agent-guidance.test.mjs
index 8bfd3c2fd..be1360d8c 100644
--- a/tools/skills/validate-agent-guidance.test.mjs
+++ b/tools/skills/validate-agent-guidance.test.mjs
@@ -1747,3 +1747,23 @@ test('srcdoc SVG use keeps its own anchors', async (t) => {
         []
     );
 });
+
+for (const suffix of [').', '];', '”']) {
+    test(`federated handle accepts closing punctuation: ${suffix}`, async (t) => {
+        assert.deepEqual(
+            await diagnostics(t, {
+                'AGENTS.md': 'Contact (@alice@example.social' + suffix,
+            }),
+            []
+        );
+    });
+}
+test('multiple at-signs cannot disguise an adjacent document import', async (t) => {
+    assert.ok(
+        (
+            await diagnostics(t, {
+                'CLAUDE.md': '@AGENTS.md\n\n@guide.md@alice@example.social',
+            })
+        ).some((message) => message.includes('additional or inline'))
+    );
+});