diff --git a/hookdeck/cli.py b/hookdeck/cli.py
index 6dc1ad5..0dab4b0 100644
--- a/hookdeck/cli.py
+++ b/hookdeck/cli.py
@@ -553,14 +553,28 @@ async def _check_source_verification(api: HookdeckAPI, routes: dict) -> list[Che
         requests = _models(
             await api.list_requests(source_id=source.get("id"), limit=10)
         )
-        unverified = [r for r in requests if not r.get("verified")]
-
-        if unverified:
+        # Only requests that actually carry the field can be judged. Treating
+        # an absent `verified` as false would turn a listing that simply does
+        # not report it into "your source is accepting forgeries" — a false
+        # alarm that sends someone to re-paste a secret that was never wrong.
+        judged = [r for r in requests if "verified" in r]
+        unverified = [r for r in judged if not r["verified"]]
+
+        if requests and not judged:
+            checks.append(
+                Check(
+                    True,
+                    f"source '{name}' should verify as {scheme}, but this "
+                    "Hookdeck response does not report whether its requests "
+                    "were verified — unconfirmed",
+                )
+            )
+        elif unverified:
             checks.append(
                 Check(
                     False,
                     f"source '{name}' should verify as {scheme}, but "
-                    f"{len(unverified)} of its last {len(requests)} requests "
+                    f"{len(unverified)} of its last {len(judged)} requests "
                     "were not verified — its signing secret is missing or does "
                     "not match the sender's.",
                     note=(
@@ -571,11 +585,11 @@ async def _check_source_verification(api: HookdeckAPI, routes: dict) -> list[Che
                     ),
                 )
             )
-        elif requests:
+        elif judged:
             checks.append(
                 Check(
                     True,
-                    f"source '{name}' verified all of its last {len(requests)} "
+                    f"source '{name}' verified all of its last {len(judged)} "
                     f"requests as {scheme}",
                 )
             )
diff --git a/tests/test_cli.py b/tests/test_cli.py
index e175239..099a76f 100644
--- a/tests/test_cli.py
+++ b/tests/test_cli.py
@@ -853,3 +853,63 @@ def test_the_source_is_read_from_the_api_not_from_our_config(
 
     assert cli.hookdeck_command(_ns("doctor")) == 1
     assert "should verify as GITHUB" in capsys.readouterr().out
+
+
+def test_requests_without_a_verified_field_are_unknown_not_failures(
+    doctor_env, fake_api, monkeypatch, capsys
+):
+    # A sibling integration measured `/requests` listings that omit `verified`.
+    # It is present on this project, but if it ever is not, reading a missing
+    # key as false turns "the API did not say" into "your source is accepting
+    # forgeries" — and sends someone to re-paste a secret that was fine.
+    from hookdeck.provision import retryable_status_codes
+
+    monkeypatch.setenv("HOOKDECK_API_KEY", "key")
+    doctor_env.setattr(cli.shutil, "which", lambda _b: "/usr/local/bin/hookdeck")
+    doctor_env.setattr(cli, "_cli_version", lambda _b: "2.4.0")
+    doctor_env.setattr(cli, "_other_hookdeck_binaries", lambda _r: [])
+    fake_api.responses["list_connections"] = {
+        "models": [{"name": "payments", "team_id": "tm_1",
+                    "rules": [{"type": "retry", "count": 10,
+                               "response_status_codes": retryable_status_codes()}]}]
+    }
+    fake_api.responses["list_sources"] = {
+        "models": [{"id": "src_1", "name": "payments", "type": "STRIPE"}]
+    }
+    # Requests exist, but none reports the field.
+    fake_api.responses["list_requests"] = {"models": [{"id": "req_1"}, {"id": "req_2"}]}
+    _configure(doctor_env, secret="s", cli_config_path="",
+               routes={"payments": {"source": "payments", "source_type": "STRIPE"}})
+
+    assert cli.hookdeck_command(_ns("doctor")) == 0  # unknowable, not broken
+    out = capsys.readouterr().out
+    assert "does not report whether its requests were verified" in out
+    assert "were not verified" not in out
+
+
+def test_a_mix_is_judged_only_on_what_reports_itself(
+    doctor_env, fake_api, monkeypatch, capsys
+):
+    from hookdeck.provision import retryable_status_codes
+
+    monkeypatch.setenv("HOOKDECK_API_KEY", "key")
+    doctor_env.setattr(cli.shutil, "which", lambda _b: "/usr/local/bin/hookdeck")
+    doctor_env.setattr(cli, "_cli_version", lambda _b: "2.4.0")
+    doctor_env.setattr(cli, "_other_hookdeck_binaries", lambda _r: [])
+    fake_api.responses["list_connections"] = {
+        "models": [{"name": "payments", "team_id": "tm_1",
+                    "rules": [{"type": "retry", "count": 10,
+                               "response_status_codes": retryable_status_codes()}]}]
+    }
+    fake_api.responses["list_sources"] = {
+        "models": [{"id": "src_1", "name": "payments", "type": "STRIPE"}]
+    }
+    fake_api.responses["list_requests"] = {
+        "models": [{"verified": False}, {"id": "no_field"}, {"verified": True}]
+    }
+    _configure(doctor_env, secret="s", cli_config_path="",
+               routes={"payments": {"source": "payments", "source_type": "STRIPE"}})
+
+    assert cli.hookdeck_command(_ns("doctor")) == 1
+    # Two judged, not three: the one that said nothing is not counted either way.
+    assert "1 of its last 2 requests were not verified" in capsys.readouterr().out