diff --git a/docs/architecture.md b/docs/architecture.md
index 6d041d7..93b5b02 100644
--- a/docs/architecture.md
+++ b/docs/architecture.md
@@ -149,6 +149,25 @@ per-request failures are excluded at their own scope by the cooldown store.
 Normal label lookup reads the in-memory snapshot and performs no SQL.
 Routing and usage records are written asynchronously after a decision.
 
+The request body cannot add a path either. On every alias the failover loop
+serves (`dispatch`, `free`, `jev`, and direct free models), the body a provider
+receives is the caller's restricted to the standard chat-completions fields in
+`caller_fields.CALLER_FIELDS`, with `model` replaced by the target being
+attempted. Every other field is dropped before the upstream call, without
+error, as most gateways do. That includes OpenRouter's `models` fallback list,
+`route`, `plugins`, `preset` and `provider`, because each can select or add a
+model the pinned revision never named, or the cost gate never weighed, under
+the operator's credential. Function tools are forwarded; a `tools` entry or a
+`tool_choice` of any other type is refused with 400 (`reason: unsupported_tool`).
+Such a tool is a server tool that runs upstream: `openrouter:fusion` runs a
+panel of its own. The refusal is recorded as a routing event with outcome
+`invalid_request`, under the caller's identity and the request's revision, and
+the response carries the event's `request_id`, so a refused request appears in
+`/admin/events` beside every other routing decision. Fusion builds its backend
+body from the same allowlist and refuses caller `tools`, `tool_choice` and
+`plugins` outright, also with a 400 and a routing event. Jev Router refuses
+rather than drops every field outside its own allowlist (see Jev Router).
+
 `/health` is the only ungated endpoint and answers liveness only —
 `{"status": "ok", "service": "cerberus"}` — which is what a container or
 orchestrator probe needs. Operational diagnostics (config version and checksum,
diff --git a/src/cerberus/app.py b/src/cerberus/app.py
index 203d780..915a86a 100644
--- a/src/cerberus/app.py
+++ b/src/cerberus/app.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 from cerberus.jev_router import JevRouterBackend, OpenRouterJevRouterBackend, jev_router_dispatch
 from cerberus.registry import CerberusConfig, ConfigDocument, load_config_document
 from cerberus.registry.schema import Alias, Candidate
-from cerberus.router.dispatch import dispatch, shadow_decision_event, unauthorized_event
+from cerberus.router.dispatch import dispatch, invalid_request_event, shadow_decision_event, unauthorized_event
 from cerberus.state import InMemoryCooldownStore, SqliteCooldownStore
 from cerberus.telemetry import TelemetryEmitter
 
@@ -946,15 +946,25 @@ async def chat_completions(request: Request) -> JSONResponse | StreamingResponse
             # fusion rejects caller tools outright (fusion_dispatch) and
             # jev-router refuses anything outside its own allowlist
             # (jev_router_dispatch), each with a routing event; elsewhere only
-            # function tools are forwarded
+            # function tools are forwarded, and refusing one is a routing
+            # decision too, so it is recorded the same way
             server_tools = non_function_tools(body)
             if server_tools:
+                refused = invalid_request_event(
+                    alias_name=alias_name,
+                    mode=alias.mode,
+                    identity=context.name if context else None,
+                    config_version=document.version,
+                    config_checksum=document.checksum,
+                )
+                telemetry.emit(refused)
                 return JSONResponse(
                     status_code=400,
                     content={
                         "error": {
                             "message": f"Only function tools are accepted; got {', '.join(sorted(set(server_tools)))}",
                             "reason": "unsupported_tool",
+                            "request_id": refused.request_id,
                         }
                     },
                 )
diff --git a/src/cerberus/router/dispatch.py b/src/cerberus/router/dispatch.py
index 1de4414..141ebde 100644
--- a/src/cerberus/router/dispatch.py
+++ b/src/cerberus/router/dispatch.py
@@ -162,6 +162,33 @@ def unauthorized_event(
     )
 
 
+def invalid_request_event(
+    *,
+    alias_name: str,
+    mode: str,
+    identity: str | None,
+    config_version: str | None = None,
+    config_checksum: str | None = None,
+) -> RoutingEvent:
+    """A request refused for its own content (400) before any upstream call."""
+    return _event(
+        request_id=str(uuid.uuid4()),
+        alias=alias_name,
+        mode=mode,
+        target=None,
+        attempts=[],
+        http_status=400,
+        outcome="invalid_request",
+        started_at=time.perf_counter(),
+        usage=None,
+        streaming=False,
+        fallback=False,
+        identity=identity,
+        config_version=config_version,
+        config_checksum=config_checksum,
+    )
+
+
 def shadow_decision_event(
     *,
     document: ConfigDocument,
diff --git a/tests/test_caller_fields.py b/tests/test_caller_fields.py
index acf4ca0..1b622bc 100644
--- a/tests/test_caller_fields.py
+++ b/tests/test_caller_fields.py
@@ -14,7 +14,10 @@
 from cerberus.app import create_app
 from cerberus.caller_fields import caller_body, non_function_tools
 from cerberus.fusion.backend import FusionRequest, OpenRouterFusionBackend
+from cerberus.registry import load_config_document
 from tests.test_app import call, make_config
+from tests.test_control import ok_upstream, write_config
+from tests.test_fusion_dispatch import AUTH, DISPATCH_REQ, Capture, client_for, fusion_raw
 
 MESSAGES = [{"role": "user", "content": "hi"}]
 
@@ -83,6 +86,43 @@ async def upstream(request):
     assert seen == []
 
 
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "extra",
+    [
+        {"tools": [{"type": "openrouter:fusion", "parameters": {"analysis_models": ["paid/model"]}}]},
+        {"tool_choice": {"type": "openrouter:fusion"}},
+    ],
+    ids=["tools", "tool_choice"],
+)
+async def test_server_tool_refusal_is_a_routing_event(monkeypatch, tmp_path, extra):
+    """The refusal is recorded like every other routing decision, under the
+    caller's identity, and the response names the event's request id."""
+
+    monkeypatch.setenv("OPENROUTER_API_KEY", "or-key")
+    monkeypatch.setenv("CB_KEY_DEV", "cb-dev")
+    monkeypatch.setenv("CB_KEY_DISPATCH", "cb-dispatch")
+    doc = load_config_document(write_config(tmp_path, "v.yaml", fusion_raw()), validate_credentials=False)
+    upstream = Capture(ok_upstream)
+    app = create_app(doc, http_transport=httpx.MockTransport(upstream))
+    async with app.router.lifespan_context(app):
+        async with client_for(app) as client:
+            response = await client.post("/v1/chat/completions", json={**DISPATCH_REQ, **extra}, headers=AUTH)
+            events = (await client.get("/admin/events")).json()["events"]
+
+    assert response.status_code == 400
+    error = response.json()["error"]
+    assert error["reason"] == "unsupported_tool"
+    assert upstream.requests == []
+    assert len(events) == 1
+    event = events[0]
+    assert (event["outcome"], event["http_status"]) == ("invalid_request", 400)
+    assert (event["alias"], event["mode"], event["identity"]) == ("cerberus/dispatch-dev", "dispatch", "dev")
+    assert event["request_id"] == error["request_id"]
+    assert event["attempt_count"] == 0 and event["provider"] is None and event["model"] is None
+    assert event["config_version"] == doc.version and event["config_checksum"] == doc.checksum
+
+
 def test_fusion_body_drops_provider_extensions():
     request = FusionRequest(
         body={"messages": MESSAGES, "models": ["paid/model"], "provider": {"order": ["x"]}, "route": "fallback"},