diff --git a/apps/pwa/src/lib/apikey.mjs b/apps/pwa/src/lib/apikey.mjs
index 86d2481..6426f59 100644
--- a/apps/pwa/src/lib/apikey.mjs
+++ b/apps/pwa/src/lib/apikey.mjs
@@ -30,7 +30,13 @@ export const revokeApiKey = (userId, keyId) =>
   run(`DELETE FROM api_keys WHERE id = ? AND user_id = ?`, [keyId, userId]);
 
 // Pull the Bearer token off a request.
+//
+// The scheme name is matched case-insensitively: RFC 7235 §2.1 says the
+// auth-scheme is case-insensitive, so a conformant client is free to send
+// `authorization: bearer mck_…`. Requiring the exact string "Bearer " turned
+// those away with a 401 that looks like a bad key. Only the scheme is matched
+// loosely — the token itself is still taken byte-exact.
 export function bearer(req) {
   const h = req.get("authorization") || "";
-  return h.startsWith("Bearer ") ? h.slice(7).trim() : null;
+  return /^Bearer /i.test(h) ? h.slice(7).trim() : null;
 }
diff --git a/apps/pwa/test/apikey-bearer-scheme.test.mjs b/apps/pwa/test/apikey-bearer-scheme.test.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..07e06bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/pwa/test/apikey-bearer-scheme.test.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+// The Authorization scheme name is case-insensitive (RFC 7235 §2.1), so
+// `authorization: bearer <key>` is a valid way to present a moshcode API key.
+// These boot the real routers against a throwaway libsql file database and
+// check that the API-key endpoints accept the scheme in any casing, while
+// still rejecting a wrong key, a missing header, and a different scheme.
+//
+// They skip cleanly when the PWA dependencies are not installed (a fresh repo
+// clone only has the root CLI deps), so the root `npm test` stays green either
+// way. Run `npm install` in apps/pwa to enable them.
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import fs from "node:fs";
+import { mkdtempSync } from "node:fs";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import path from "node:path";
+import { createRequire } from "node:module";
+import test from "node:test";
+
+const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
+let deps = null;
+try {
+  deps = { express: require("express"), cookieParser: require("cookie-parser") };
+} catch {
+  deps = null; // pwa dependencies not installed — tests below skip
+}
+
+// Point the app at a throwaway database BEFORE importing its modules (config
+// reads the environment once, at import time).
+const workdir = mkdtempSync(path.join(tmpdir(), "moshcode-pwa-test-"));
+process.env.DATABASE_URL = `file:${path.join(workdir, "test.db")}`;
+process.env.SESSION_SECRET = "test-secret";
+
+async function boot() {
+  const { migrate } = await import("../src/migrate.mjs");
+  await migrate();
+  const { run, get, db } = await import("../src/db.mjs");
+  const { sessionMiddleware, csrfGuard } = await import("../src/lib/session.mjs");
+  const { cliRouter } = await import("../src/routes/cli.mjs");
+  const { approvalsRouter } = await import("../src/routes/approvals.mjs");
+  const { createApiKey } = await import("../src/lib/apikey.mjs");
+
+  const app = deps.express();
+  app.use(deps.express.json({ verify: (req, _res, buf) => { req.rawBody = buf.toString("utf8"); } }));
+  app.use(deps.express.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
+  app.use(deps.cookieParser());
+  app.use(sessionMiddleware);
+  app.use(csrfGuard);
+  app.use(cliRouter);
+  app.use(approvalsRouter);
+  const server = await new Promise((resolve) => {
+    const s = app.listen(0, "127.0.0.1", () => resolve(s));
+  });
+  const base = `http://127.0.0.1:${server.address().port}`;
+
+  await run(`INSERT OR REPLACE INTO users (id, email, display_name, created_at) VALUES ('u1','a@b.c','demo',1)`);
+  const { plaintext } = await createApiKey("u1", "test");
+
+  // `headers` is passed through verbatim so each test controls the exact
+  // scheme casing that goes on the wire.
+  const me = (headers) => fetch(`${base}/api/me`, { headers })
+    .then(async (res) => ({ status: res.status, body: await res.json() }));
+  const ingest = (headers) => fetch(`${base}/api/approvals`, {
+    method: "POST",
+    headers: { "content-type": "application/json", ...headers },
+    body: JSON.stringify({ message: "ship it?", kind: "notify" }),
+  }).then(async (res) => ({ status: res.status, body: await res.json() }));
+
+  return { run, get, db, server, key: plaintext, me, ingest };
+}
+
+// One shared app/db for the whole file (db.mjs is a module-level singleton —
+// closing it between tests would break the next boot).
+let booted = null;
+const app = () => (booted ||= boot());
+
+test.after(() => {
+  if (!booted) return;
+  booted.then(({ server, db }) => { server.close(); db.close?.(); })
+    .finally(() => { try { fs.rmSync(workdir, { recursive: true, force: true }); } catch { /* noop */ } });
+});
+
+test("api/me: the canonical `Bearer` scheme authenticates", { skip: !deps && "apps/pwa deps not installed" }, async () => {
+  const { key, me } = await app();
+
+  const res = await me({ authorization: `Bearer ${key}` });
+  assert.equal(res.status, 200);
+  assert.equal(res.body.id, "u1");
+});
+
+test("api/me: a lowercase `bearer` scheme authenticates the same key", { skip: !deps && "apps/pwa deps not installed" }, async () => {
+  const { key, me } = await app();
+
+  const res = await me({ authorization: `bearer ${key}` });
+  assert.equal(res.status, 200, "RFC 7235 §2.1: the scheme name is case-insensitive");
+  assert.equal(res.body.id, "u1");
+});
+
+test("api/me: an uppercase `BEARER` scheme authenticates the same key", { skip: !deps && "apps/pwa deps not installed" }, async () => {
+  const { key, me } = await app();
+
+  const res = await me({ authorization: `BEARER ${key}` });
+  assert.equal(res.status, 200);
+  assert.equal(res.body.id, "u1");
+});
+
+test("api/approvals: ingest accepts a lowercase `bearer` scheme", { skip: !deps && "apps/pwa deps not installed" }, async () => {
+  const { key, ingest } = await app();
+
+  const res = await ingest({ authorization: `bearer ${key}` });
+  assert.equal(res.status, 201);
+  assert.ok(res.body.id, "ingest must create an approval");
+});
+
+test("api/me: a wrong key is still rejected in any casing", { skip: !deps && "apps/pwa deps not installed" }, async () => {
+  const { me } = await app();
+
+  for (const scheme of ["Bearer", "bearer", "BEARER"]) {
+    const res = await me({ authorization: `${scheme} mck_not-a-real-key` });
+    assert.equal(res.status, 401, `${scheme} with a bad key must 401`);
+  }
+});
+
+test("api/me: a missing or non-Bearer Authorization header is rejected", { skip: !deps && "apps/pwa deps not installed" }, async () => {
+  const { key, me } = await app();
+
+  assert.equal((await me({})).status, 401, "no header must 401");
+  assert.equal((await me({ authorization: `Basic ${key}` })).status, 401, "a different scheme must 401");
+  assert.equal((await me({ authorization: key })).status, 401, "a bare token with no scheme must 401");
+  assert.equal((await me({ authorization: `Bearer${key}` })).status, 401, "no space after the scheme must 401");
+});