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diff --git a/‎frontend/roslyn/OwnSharp.Extractor/Program.cs‎
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diff --git a/‎ownlang/__main__.py‎
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@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@ jobs:
             frontend/roslyn/samples/SemaphoreFieldSample.cs \
             frontend/roslyn/samples/VoidSubscribeSample.cs \
             frontend/roslyn/samples/ReturnedPublisherSample.cs \
+            frontend/roslyn/samples/OwnIgnoreSample.cs \
             -o "$RUNNER_TEMP/facts.json"
           cat "$RUNNER_TEMP/facts.json"
       - name: Check facts through the core
@@ -723,7 +724,35 @@ jobs:
           if echo "$out" | grep -qE "(ScopeUsingService|ClockCachingService)"; then
             echo "FAIL: a correct scope use (used-in-scope, or a cached singleton) was wrongly flagged DI005"; exit 1
           fi
-          echo "OK: real C# -> facts -> OWN001 (subscription + timer + field + Subscribe + pool + local) + OWN014 (static-event region escape) + DI001 (captive dependency) + DI002 (scoped captured weakly) + DI003 (transient IDisposable captured by a singleton) + DI004 (transient IDisposable service-located from the root provider) + DI005 (scoped service cached from a created scope) at the C# location"
+          # issue #209 — inline [OwnIgnore("reason")] per-site suppression (P-004), on an
+          # IDisposable field. Four contrasting shapes in OwnIgnoreSample.cs: the un-annotated
+          # leak, a reason-less [OwnIgnore], and an empty [OwnIgnore("")] all FIRE OWN001; only
+          # [OwnIgnore("reason")] is silent-but-COUNTED (SARIF suppressions), never failing the run.
+          echo "$out" | grep -qE "OwnIgnoreSample\.cs:[0-9]+: error: \[OWN001\].*'UnsuppressedLeak'" \
+            || { echo "FAIL: an un-annotated IDisposable field must raise OWN001"; exit 1; }
+          echo "$out" | grep -qE "\[OWN001\].*'ReasonlessLeak'" \
+            || { echo "FAIL: a reason-less [OwnIgnore] must NOT suppress (OWN001 must still fire)"; exit 1; }
+          echo "$out" | grep -qE "\[OWN001\].*'EmptyReasonLeak'" \
+            || { echo "FAIL: an empty [OwnIgnore(\"\")] reason must NOT suppress (OWN001 must still fire)"; exit 1; }
+          # the suppressed leak is SILENT in the human findings stream...
+          if echo "$out" | grep -q "'SuppressedLeak'"; then
+            echo "FAIL: a [OwnIgnore(\"reason\")] finding must be silent in the human output"; exit 1
+          fi
+          # ...but COUNTED in the run summary (visibility over silence).
+          echo "$out" | grep -qE "[0-9]+ suppressed \(\[OwnIgnore\]\)" \
+            || { echo "FAIL: the suppressed finding must be counted in the summary tally"; exit 1; }
+          # SARIF carries it as a result WITH a `suppressions` array (kind inSource + the
+          # mandatory reason as justification) — a consumer counts it, GitHub shows it
+          # suppressed rather than an open alert, and it never fails the run.
+          python -m ownlang ownir "$RUNNER_TEMP/facts.json" --format sarif > "$RUNNER_TEMP/own.sarif" 2>/dev/null || true
+          jq -e '[.runs[0].results[] | select(.properties.component == "SuppressedLeak")] as $s
+                 | ($s | length) == 1
+                   and ($s[0].suppressions[0].kind == "inSource")
+                   and ($s[0].suppressions[0].justification | contains("owned and disposed by the DI container"))' \
+            "$RUNNER_TEMP/own.sarif" >/dev/null \
+            || { echo "FAIL: SARIF must carry SuppressedLeak once, with an inSource suppressions justification"; \
+                 jq '.runs[0].results[]|{ruleId,component:.properties.component,suppressions}' "$RUNNER_TEMP/own.sarif"; exit 1; }
+          echo "OK: real C# -> facts -> OWN001 (subscription + timer + field + Subscribe + pool + local) + OWN014 (static-event region escape) + DI001 (captive dependency) + DI002 (scoped captured weakly) + DI003 (transient IDisposable captured by a singleton) + DI004 (transient IDisposable service-located from the root provider) + DI005 (scoped service cached from a created scope) + [OwnIgnore] suppression (silent-but-counted, SARIF suppressions) at the C# location"
       - name: Flow-sensitive local IDisposables (--flow-locals, P-016 B0b/B2)
         run: |
           # Path-sensitive flow analysis of local IDisposables — bugs the flat D1
 
@@ -45,30 +45,36 @@ fire on unprovable input.
 |---|---|---|
 | `--severity warning` | **works today** (P-013) | Global: downgrades every error-tier finding for that run to advisory. Per-run, not per-finding — an escape hatch for "show me everything, but don't fail the build yet," not a way to silence one specific site. |
 | `--fail-on-finding` set to off | **works today** (P-013) | Global: findings still print/annotate, but the process/step exit code stays 0. The CLI (`own-check.sh`) is off by default — you must pass the flag to make findings fail the shell. The GitHub Action inverts that for safety: its `fail-on-finding` input defaults to `"true"` (fails the step on a finding), so to get the "annotate but don't fail" behavior in CI you must explicitly set `fail-on-finding: "false"`. |
-| `[OwnIgnore("reason")]` | **designed, not implemented** (P-004) | Inline, per-site suppression attribute — the intended fine-grained escape hatch for a specific subscription/field the checker can't see enough context to clear. Referenced across P-001/P-004/P-010/P-014/P-017 as the standing design; there is no code behind it yet. If you need this today, the honest answer is: you don't have it — file the case so it informs the implementation. |
+| `[OwnIgnore("reason")]` | **works today** on `IDisposable` fields (P-004, #209) | Inline, per-site suppression attribute — the fine-grained escape hatch for a specific site the checker can't see enough context to clear. Put `[OwnIgnore("reason")]` on the field; the finding is then **silent-but-counted** — kept out of the exit code and the human findings stream, but tallied in the run summary and carried in SARIF `suppressions` (`kind: "inSource"`, your reason as the `justification`) so nothing is lost and a consumer can audit it. The **reason is mandatory**: a reason-less `[OwnIgnore]` (or an empty `[OwnIgnore("")]`) does **not** suppress — a suppression is a documented decision, never a silent accept. The attribute is matched by simple name, so you can declare your own `OwnIgnoreAttribute`. Currently reads on `IDisposable` **field** declarations (the clearest attribute site); other sites (subscriptions, timers) are follow-up increments. |
 | Project-wide config (`.ownrc`/`own.toml`) | **draft, not implemented** (P-015) | Per-check-category enable/disable + severity + per-path overrides (e.g. relax a category under `tests/`). Stub status — format (TOML vs INI vs JSON) and enforcement point are still open questions in the proposal. |
 | `corpus/oracle-fp-baseline.txt` | **exists, but not a user-facing suppression tool** | An allowlist the *oracle comparator* (`scripts/oracle_compare.py`, a dev/maintainer tool) uses to keep already-triaged false positives out of the `own-only` bucket on re-runs. It doesn't change what `own-check`/the Action reports — it only keeps the oracle's own triage queue from re-showing confirmed noise. |
 
-So today, honestly: there is no way to suppress **one specific finding** in
-your own repo. The two escape hatches for that (`[OwnIgnore]`, project config)
-are designed and drafted respectively, not shipped. What you have is a global
-severity dial and the extractor's own honest-skip behavior, which is why the
-precision bar above matters as much as the (currently thin) suppression
-surface — the fewer false positives reach you, the less suppression UX has to
-carry.
+So today: you **can** suppress one specific finding with an inline
+`[OwnIgnore("reason")]` on the field it fires on (shipped, #209) — the finding
+goes silent but stays counted (summary tally + SARIF `suppressions`). The
+project-wide counterpart (`.ownrc`/`own.toml`, P-015) is drafted, not shipped.
+Together with the global severity dial and the extractor's own honest-skip
+behavior, that covers per-site and per-run; the per-*category*, per-*path*
+config is the remaining gap. The precision bar above still matters as much as
+the suppression surface — the fewer false positives reach you, the less
+suppression UX has to carry.
 
-## The designed shape (so you know what's coming)
+## The full shape (`[OwnIgnore]` shipped; config still to come)
 
-Precedence, once both land (P-015's draft order):
+Precedence (P-015's draft order — the inline attribute half is shipped, #209;
+the config-file half is still draft):
 
 ```text
 CLI flag  >  inline [OwnIgnore]  >  config file  >  built-in default
 ```
 
-`[OwnIgnore("reason")]` (P-004) is a per-site attribute — the *reason* string
-is mandatory by design, so a suppression is a documented decision, not a
-silent one. Project config (P-015) is the per-category, project-wide
-counterpart — "treat subscriptions as warnings, keep disposables as errors,
+`[OwnIgnore("reason")]` (P-004, **shipped** #209) is a per-site attribute — the
+*reason* string is mandatory by design, so a suppression is a documented
+decision, not a silent one. It is consumed **core-side** (the extractor emits
+the finding fact with the reason marker; the core decides the verdict, keeps it
+out of the exit code, and stamps SARIF `suppressions`), so a suppression is
+counted, never a silent drop. Project config (P-015, draft) is the
+per-category, project-wide counterpart — "treat subscriptions as warnings, keep disposables as errors,
 skip pool checks under `tests/`" — discovered by walking up from the scanned
 path, the same convention as `.editorconfig`/`ruff.toml`. Both are consumed
 **core-side** ([P-013](proposals/P-013-distribution-surface.md)'s "one
 
@@ -3448,6 +3448,39 @@ static bool IsPublicCtor(SyntaxTokenList modifiers)
     return false;
 }
 
+// [OwnIgnore("reason")] per-site suppression (P-004 / issue #209). The reason string is
+// MANDATORY by design — a suppression is a documented decision, not a silent one — so this
+// returns the reason ONLY when the attribute carries a constant, non-empty string first
+// argument; it returns null when the attribute is absent, reason-less (`[OwnIgnore]`), or
+// carries an empty/non-constant reason. A null therefore never suppresses (the finding fires),
+// which is exactly P-004's "never a silent accept" posture. Matched by SIMPLE name
+// (`OwnIgnore` / `OwnIgnoreAttribute`), namespace-agnostic, like the BCL `[SuppressMessage]`
+// convention — so a user may declare their own attribute type; the core (not this frontend) is
+// the sole authority on the resulting verdict (P-013 "one checker"). Uses the SemanticModel's
+// constant folding so a `const`/`nameof` reason resolves, not only a bare string literal.
+static string? OwnIgnoreReason(SyntaxList<AttributeListSyntax> attrLists, SemanticModel model)
+{
+    foreach (var al in attrLists)
+        foreach (var a in al.Attributes)
+        {
+            var simple = a.Name switch
+            {
+                QualifiedNameSyntax q => q.Right.Identifier.Text,
+                SimpleNameSyntax s => s.Identifier.Text,
+                _ => a.Name.ToString(),
+            };
+            if (simple is not ("OwnIgnore" or "OwnIgnoreAttribute"))
+                continue;
+            var arg = a.ArgumentList?.Arguments.FirstOrDefault();
+            if (arg is null)
+                return null;   // reason-less [OwnIgnore] -> does not suppress
+            if (model.GetConstantValue(arg.Expression).Value is string r && r.Length > 0)
+                return r;
+            return null;       // empty / non-constant reason -> does not suppress
+        }
+    return null;
+}
+
 var components = new List<object>();
 // P-016 B0b/B2: per-method flow bodies (only when --flow-locals).
 var flowFunctions = new List<object>();
@@ -3965,14 +3998,31 @@ or ImplicitObjectCreationExpressionSyntax
                     && fieldCtors.Count > 0
                     && fieldCtors.All(c => IsNoOpDisposeWrapper(c, model)))
                     continue;
-                subs.Add(new
-                {
-                    @event = v.Identifier.Text,
-                    line = LineOf(v),
-                    released = disposed.Contains(v.Identifier.Text),
-                    resource = "disposable",
-                    type = tname,
-                });
+                // [OwnIgnore("reason")] on the field declaration (P-004 / #209): emit the
+                // record WITH the reason marker rather than dropping it, so the core can
+                // count the suppression and SARIF carries it in `suppressions` (visibility
+                // over silence). Additive/optional: absent when there is no valid reason, so
+                // an older core ignores it — exactly the source_provenance convention.
+                var ignoreReason = OwnIgnoreReason(fd.AttributeLists, model);
+                if (ignoreReason is not null)
+                    subs.Add(new
+                    {
+                        @event = v.Identifier.Text,
+                        line = LineOf(v),
+                        released = disposed.Contains(v.Identifier.Text),
+                        resource = "disposable",
+                        type = tname,
+                        ignore_reason = ignoreReason,
+                    });
+                else
+                    subs.Add(new
+                    {
+                        @event = v.Identifier.Text,
+                        line = LineOf(v),
+                        released = disposed.Contains(v.Identifier.Text),
+                        resource = "disposable",
+                        type = tname,
+                    });
             }
         }
 
 
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+using System;
+
+namespace Own.Samples;
+
+// Issue #209 — [OwnIgnore("reason")] per-site suppression (P-004), on an IDisposable field.
+// The reason string is MANDATORY by design: a suppression is a documented decision, never a
+// silent one. Three contrasting shapes prove the contract end to end:
+//   - UnsuppressedLeak   : the plain leak, no attribute            -> OWN001 fires (control)
+//   - SuppressedLeak     : same leak + [OwnIgnore("reason")]       -> silent-but-COUNTED
+//                                                                      (SARIF `suppressions`),
+//                                                                      never fails the run
+//   - ReasonlessLeak     : [OwnIgnore] with no reason              -> must NOT suppress (fires)
+//   - EmptyReasonLeak    : [OwnIgnore("")]                         -> must NOT suppress (fires)
+//
+// The attribute is matched by SIMPLE name, so a project may declare its own; this sample
+// declares a local one (two ctors) so all four shapes compile.
+
+[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Field | AttributeTargets.Property
+              | AttributeTargets.Method | AttributeTargets.Class, AllowMultiple = false)]
+public sealed class OwnIgnoreAttribute : Attribute
+{
+    public OwnIgnoreAttribute() { }
+    public OwnIgnoreAttribute(string reason) { Reason = reason; }
+    public string? Reason { get; }
+}
+
+// A plain owned IDisposable — no BCL special-casing, so it is an unambiguous OWN001.
+public sealed class Handle : IDisposable
+{
+    public void Dispose() { }
+}
+
+// CONTROL: a `new`'d IDisposable field never disposed -> OWN001 fires.
+public sealed class UnsuppressedLeak
+{
+    private readonly Handle _h = new Handle();
+}
+
+// SUPPRESSED: the same leak, but a documented [OwnIgnore("reason")] -> silent-but-counted.
+public sealed class SuppressedLeak
+{
+    [OwnIgnore("owned and disposed by the DI container, not by this type")]
+    private readonly Handle _h = new Handle();
+}
+
+// REASON-LESS: [OwnIgnore] carries no reason -> must NOT suppress (never a silent accept).
+public sealed class ReasonlessLeak
+{
+    [OwnIgnore]
+    private readonly Handle _h = new Handle();
+}
+
+// EMPTY REASON: [OwnIgnore("")] is not a documented decision -> must NOT suppress.
+public sealed class EmptyReasonLeak
+{
+    [OwnIgnore("")]
+    private readonly Handle _h = new Handle();
+}
@@ -349,15 +349,22 @@ def cmd_ownir(path: str, fmt: str = "human", severity: str = "error",
     # Advisory findings (OWN050 "leakage analysis skipped", OBL005 "dead protocol
     # rule") are always shown as warnings regardless of --severity, and never
     # affect the exit code — they are coverage/hygiene notes, not verdicts.
-    leaks = [f for f in findings if not f.advisory]
-    notes = [f for f in findings if f.advisory]
-    shown = leaks if verbosity == "quiet" else findings
+    # Inline `[OwnIgnore("reason")]` suppressions (P-004, #209) are counted and carried in
+    # SARIF `suppressions`, but kept OUT of the human findings stream and the exit code —
+    # visibility over silence, without failing the run. Everything else is "active".
+    suppressed = [f for f in findings if f.suppressed]
+    active = [f for f in findings if not f.suppressed]
+    leaks = [f for f in active if not f.advisory]
+    notes = [f for f in active if f.advisory]
+    shown = leaks if verbosity == "quiet" else active
     if fmt == "sarif":
         # SARIF is one document for the whole run (not a line per finding): stdout
         # carries only the JSON; the summary goes to stderr like the other machine
         # formats. build_sarif applies the same per-finding severity policy below.
+        # Suppressed findings ride along (marked with a `suppressions` array) so a
+        # SARIF consumer can count them rather than losing them.
         import json
-        print(json.dumps(build_sarif(shown, severity), indent=2))
+        print(json.dumps(build_sarif(shown + suppressed, severity), indent=2))
     else:
         for f in shown:
             # Severity is the weaker of the host's --severity and the finding's own
@@ -382,6 +389,10 @@ def cmd_ownir(path: str, fmt: str = "human", severity: str = "error",
         note_codes = "/".join(sorted({x.code for x in notes}))
         summary += (f" ({len(notes)} advisory hidden)" if verbosity == "quiet"
                     else f", {len(notes)} advisory ({note_codes})")
+    if suppressed:
+        # counted, never silent: [OwnIgnore] suppressions are tallied here and carried in
+        # SARIF `suppressions`, but they do not print as findings and do not fail the run.
+        summary += f", {len(suppressed)} suppressed ([OwnIgnore])"
     print(summary + ".", file=summary_to)
     if verbosity == "verbose" and findings:
         by_code: dict[str, int] = {}