diff --git a/rsworkspace/Cargo.lock b/rsworkspace/Cargo.lock
index 1df6615828..7c2e9ac9d4 100644
--- a/rsworkspace/Cargo.lock
+++ b/rsworkspace/Cargo.lock
@@ -7136,6 +7136,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "hex",
  "hmac 0.13.0",
  "reqwest 0.12.28",
+ "rustls",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
  "sha2 0.11.0",
@@ -7302,6 +7303,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "bytesize",
  "clap",
  "opentelemetry",
+ "rustls",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
  "thiserror 2.0.19",
diff --git a/rsworkspace/Cargo.toml b/rsworkspace/Cargo.toml
index 060a02e97c..3a5b1c08fe 100644
--- a/rsworkspace/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rsworkspace/Cargo.toml
@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ hmac = "=0.13.0"
 jsonwebtoken = { version = "=11.0.0", features = ["rust_crypto"] }
 nats-jwt-rs = "=0.1.1"
 nkeys = { version = "=0.4.5", features = ["xkeys"] }
+rustls = { version = "=0.23.37", default-features = false, features = ["aws-lc-rs", "std"] }
 rustls-pemfile = "=2.2.0"
 rustls-pki-types = { version = "=1.15.1", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
 rustls-webpki = { version = "=0.103.13", default-features = false, features = ["std", "alloc", "ring"] }
diff --git a/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-gateway/Cargo.toml b/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-gateway/Cargo.toml
index 683606c1bc..a72dc64be1 100644
--- a/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-gateway/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-gateway/Cargo.toml
@@ -39,10 +39,11 @@ twilight-model = { workspace = true }
 trogon-nats = { workspace = true }
 trogon-semconv = { workspace = true }
 trogon-service-config = { workspace = true }
-trogon-std = { workspace = true, features = ["clap", "signal", "telemetry-http"] }
+trogon-std = { workspace = true, features = ["clap", "signal", "telemetry-http", "tls"] }
 url = "2.5"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
+rustls = { workspace = true }
 tempfile = { workspace = true }
 time = { workspace = true }
 tower = "0.5"
diff --git a/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-gateway/src/main.rs b/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-gateway/src/main.rs
index 12800fcad0..2906e097d9 100644
--- a/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-gateway/src/main.rs
+++ b/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-gateway/src/main.rs
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ type SourceResult = (&'static str, anyhow::Result<()>);
 #[cfg(not(coverage))]
 #[tokio::main]
 async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    trogon_std::tls::install_default_crypto_provider()?;
+
     let cli = CliArgs::<cli::Cli>::new().parse_args();
     let resolved = config::load_with_overrides(cli.runtime.config.as_deref(), &cli.runtime.nats)?;
 
@@ -219,12 +221,14 @@ async fn serve(resolved: config::ResolvedConfig) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     Ok(())
 }
 
+#[cfg_attr(coverage, allow(dead_code))]
 #[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
 enum NotionVerificationTokenCommandError {
     #[error("notion integration '{0}' is not configured")]
     IntegrationNotConfigured(source_integration_id::SourceIntegrationId),
 }
 
+#[cfg_attr(coverage, allow(dead_code))]
 async fn notion_verification_token<N, J, W>(
     resolved: &config::ResolvedConfig,
     integration: &source_integration_id::SourceIntegrationId,
diff --git a/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-gateway/src/source/slack/socket_mode.rs b/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-gateway/src/source/slack/socket_mode.rs
index dfc1079b78..1dd8a152c7 100644
--- a/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-gateway/src/source/slack/socket_mode.rs
+++ b/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-gateway/src/source/slack/socket_mode.rs
@@ -5,8 +5,10 @@ use futures_util::{Sink, SinkExt, Stream, StreamExt};
 use serde::Deserialize;
 use tokio_tungstenite::tungstenite::{Error as WebSocketError, Message};
 use tracing::{info, warn};
+#[cfg_attr(coverage, allow(unused_imports))]
 use trogon_nats::jetstream::{ClaimCheckPublisher, JetStreamPublisher, ObjectStorePut};
 
+#[cfg_attr(coverage, allow(unused_imports))]
 use super::config::{SlackConfig, SlackSocketModeConfig};
 use super::constants::RECONNECT_MAX_DELAY;
 #[cfg(not(coverage))]
diff --git a/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-gateway/tests/crypto_provider.rs b/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-gateway/tests/crypto_provider.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f1c45dfd69
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-gateway/tests/crypto_provider.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+//! Guards the dependency graph that made every TLS handshake panic at runtime.
+//!
+//! `trogon-gateway` reaches rustls through both provider features: `aws-lc-rs`
+//! via the OTLP exporter and `ring` via async-nats and twilight. rustls refuses
+//! to pick one, so anything building a TLS client panicked instead of
+//! connecting. This fails if the explicit provider install stops happening or a
+//! dependency change reintroduces the ambiguity.
+
+#[test]
+fn tls_clients_build_once_the_provider_is_installed() {
+    assert!(trogon_std::tls::install_default_crypto_provider().is_ok());
+
+    let _ = rustls::ClientConfig::builder();
+}
diff --git a/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-std/Cargo.toml b/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-std/Cargo.toml
index 4d551ddf25..ad0136716c 100644
--- a/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-std/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-std/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ test-support = ["dep:tracing", "dep:tracing-subscriber"]
 clap = ["dep:clap"]
 uuid = ["dep:uuid"]
 signal = ["dep:tokio", "dep:tracing"]
+tls = ["dep:rustls"]
 telemetry-http = [
     "dep:axum",
     "dep:opentelemetry",
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ axum = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 bytesize = "2.3.1"
 clap = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 opentelemetry = { workspace = true, optional = true }
+rustls = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 trogon-semconv = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 serde = { workspace = true }
 serde_json = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-std/src/lib.rs b/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-std/src/lib.rs
index 8847ebdab1..8c4e52b211 100644
--- a/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-std/src/lib.rs
+++ b/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-std/src/lib.rs
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ pub mod signal;
 #[cfg(feature = "telemetry-http")]
 pub mod telemetry;
 pub mod time;
+#[cfg(feature = "tls")]
+pub mod tls;
 #[cfg(feature = "uuid")]
 pub mod uuid;
 
@@ -71,5 +73,7 @@ pub use json::{JsonSerialize, StdJsonSerialize};
 pub use log_capture::{CapturedEvent, CapturedEvents};
 pub use secret_string::{EmptySecretError, SecretString};
 pub use time::{EpochClock, GetElapsed, GetNow, SystemClock};
+#[cfg(feature = "tls")]
+pub use tls::{CryptoProviderAlreadyInstalledError, install_default_crypto_provider};
 #[cfg(feature = "uuid")]
 pub use uuid::{NowV7, UuidV7Generator};
diff --git a/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-std/src/tls.rs b/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-std/src/tls.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e44c58304c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-std/src/tls.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+//! Process-wide TLS provider selection for rustls.
+//!
+//! rustls only derives its process-level [`rustls::crypto::CryptoProvider`] from
+//! crate features when exactly one provider feature is enabled. A dependency
+//! graph that reaches both `aws-lc-rs` and `ring` leaves the choice ambiguous,
+//! and rustls panics on the first handshake rather than guessing. Installing the
+//! provider explicitly removes the dependency on feature unification, so adding
+//! a dependency cannot change which cryptography a binary uses.
+//!
+//! Call [`install_default_crypto_provider`] before the first TLS handshake,
+//! ahead of any client construction or task spawn.
+
+/// A rustls [`rustls::crypto::CryptoProvider`] was already installed for this
+/// process, so the caller has no guarantee which cryptography it now uses.
+#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
+#[error("a rustls CryptoProvider was already installed for this process")]
+pub struct CryptoProviderAlreadyInstalledError;
+
+/// Installs aws-lc-rs as the process-wide rustls
+/// [`rustls::crypto::CryptoProvider`].
+///
+/// Fails rather than accepting whichever provider got there first, so a second
+/// installer cannot silently downgrade the process to different cryptography.
+pub fn install_default_crypto_provider() -> Result<(), CryptoProviderAlreadyInstalledError> {
+    rustls::crypto::aws_lc_rs::default_provider()
+        .install_default()
+        .map_err(|_| CryptoProviderAlreadyInstalledError)
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests;
diff --git a/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-std/src/tls/tests.rs b/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-std/src/tls/tests.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1d90152c62
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rsworkspace/crates/platform/trogon-std/src/tls/tests.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+use super::install_default_crypto_provider;
+use rustls::crypto::CryptoProvider;
+
+#[test]
+fn installs_a_process_wide_provider() {
+    let _ = install_default_crypto_provider();
+
+    assert!(CryptoProvider::get_default().is_some());
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn refuses_to_replace_an_installed_provider() {
+    let _ = install_default_crypto_provider();
+
+    assert!(install_default_crypto_provider().is_err());
+}