diff --git a/.github/workflows/project-status-sweep.yml b/.github/workflows/project-status-sweep.yml
index 649c5dc9f..85bdcd39c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/project-status-sweep.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/project-status-sweep.yml
@@ -20,7 +20,13 @@ name: Project status sweep
 #      Repository: Issues, Pull requests, Metadata read. No webhook. Install it
 #      on every repo whose issues or PRs are on the board (today: extenddb).
 #   2. Environment "project-board", deployment branches: main only.
-#      In it: variable PROJECT_APP_CLIENT_ID and secret PROJECT_APP_PRIVATE_KEY.
+#      In it: variable PROJECT_APP_CLIENT_ID. No secret: the App's private key
+#      is in AWS Secrets Manager as JSON {"private_key": "<PEM>"} and is read
+#      at run time through the OIDC role in the steps below, which trusts only
+#      this environment. Build that JSON with
+#      `jq -n --rawfile k app.pem '{private_key: $k}'`, which keeps the PEM's
+#      line breaks. To rotate the key, generate a new one for the App, store
+#      it in the secret, then delete the old key in the App's settings.
 #   3. Board workflows: keep "Item closed" and "Pull request merged" (they set
 #      Done). Turn off every other workflow that sets Status; the sweep warns
 #      while any is on.
@@ -55,11 +61,14 @@ jobs:
     if: github.repository == 'ExtendDB/extenddb'
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     timeout-minutes: 10
-    # Secrets live in this environment, which only main can use.
+    # The OIDC role trusts only this environment, which only main can use.
     # deployment: false keeps that, without a deployment record every run.
     environment:
       name: project-board
       deployment: false
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+      id-token: write   # OIDC role that reads the App key from Secrets Manager
     steps:
       - name: Check out sweep script
         uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
@@ -67,12 +76,27 @@ jobs:
           sparse-checkout: .github/scripts
           persist-credentials: false
 
+      - name: Assume the App-key role via OIDC
+        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e6de054238d6b7531b4efff3b6587d9aade6a06c # v6.2.3
+        with:
+          role-to-assume: arn:aws:iam::975306274793:role/ExtendDBProjectBoardApp
+          role-session-name: extenddb-project-sweep-${{ github.run_id }}
+          role-duration-seconds: 900   # one secret read; the minimum session
+          aws-region: us-east-1
+
+      - name: Read the App private key from Secrets Manager
+        # Masked in the log, line by line as well as whole.
+        uses: aws-actions/aws-secretsmanager-get-secrets@2297f9a879480a9e3af9b293ed15c70caf8e1c88 # v3.0.2
+        with:
+          secret-ids: PROJECT_APP,extenddb/project-board-app
+          parse-json-secrets: true
+
       - name: Mint App token
         id: app-token
         uses: actions/create-github-app-token@64ab729a6294000f5aa4a4bc0b73d1f32bc45510 # v3.3.0
         with:
           client-id: ${{ vars.PROJECT_APP_CLIENT_ID }}
-          private-key: ${{ secrets.PROJECT_APP_PRIVATE_KEY }}
+          private-key: ${{ env.PROJECT_APP_PRIVATE_KEY }}
           # No repositories list: the token covers the repos the App is
           # installed on, so cards from a newly added repo work once it is.
           owner: ExtendDB
@@ -80,6 +104,22 @@ jobs:
           permission-issues: read
           permission-pull-requests: read
 
+      - name: Drop the App key and the AWS credentials from the job environment
+        # Both are exported for every later step. The sweep needs only the
+        # one-hour installation token, so every variable the secrets action
+        # exported (it lists them in SECRETS_LIST_CLEAN_UP) and the credentials
+        # that can read the secret are cleared before the sweep script runs.
+        # A later step can still request an OIDC token; the sweep script is
+        # under the same code-owner review as this file.
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          {
+            jq -r '.[] | . + "="' <<< "${SECRETS_LIST_CLEAN_UP:-[]}"
+            echo "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="
+            echo "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="
+            echo "AWS_SESSION_TOKEN="
+          } >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+
       - name: Sweep board
         uses: actions/github-script@3a2844b7e9c422d3c10d287c895573f7108da1b3 # v9.0.0
         env: