diff --git a/internal/store/postgres/migrations/20260830100000_create_user_consents.down.sql b/internal/store/postgres/migrations/20260830100000_create_user_consents.down.sql
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+DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS trg_user_consents_prevent_delete ON user_consents;
+DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS trg_user_consents_prevent_update ON user_consents;
+
+DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS prevent_user_consent_deletes();
+DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS prevent_user_consent_updates();
+
+DROP INDEX IF EXISTS uq_user_consents_signup;
+
+-- a BEFORE DELETE trigger fires per row and does not block DROP TABLE.
+DROP TABLE IF EXISTS user_consents;
diff --git a/internal/store/postgres/migrations/20260830100000_create_user_consents.up.sql b/internal/store/postgres/migrations/20260830100000_create_user_consents.up.sql
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+-- One consent record per consent act, listing the documents it covers.
+-- See docs/rfcs/0002-explicit-consent-at-signup.md, "Storage".
+CREATE TABLE user_consents (
+    id            UUID PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT uuid_generate_v7(),
+    -- no FK to users(id): Delete is a hard DELETE, so CASCADE would drop these
+    -- records with the account and RESTRICT would block deleting it at all.
+    user_id       UUID        NOT NULL,
+    user_email    TEXT        NOT NULL, -- denormalized so the record outlives the user row.
+    documents     JSONB       NOT NULL, -- [{id, title, version, url}, ...], copied from config at write time.
+    source        TEXT        NOT NULL DEFAULT 'signup',
+    auth_strategy TEXT,
+    ip_address    TEXT,                 -- TEXT and nullable, not INET: it comes from a request header.
+    consented_at  TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL, -- when the user accepted, not when the row was written.
+    created_at    TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT NOW(),
+
+    CONSTRAINT documents_not_empty CHECK (
+        jsonb_typeof(documents) = 'array' AND jsonb_array_length(documents) > 0
+    )
+);
+
+-- At most one signup consent per user: nothing repairs a record, so a second
+-- write is a bug and should fail rather than leave two rows disagreeing.
+CREATE UNIQUE INDEX uq_user_consents_signup
+    ON user_consents(user_id) WHERE source = 'signup';
+
+-- Following 20250904105226_add_audit_records_immutability.up.sql, which guards
+-- UPDATE. DELETE is guarded too: a deleted record leaves a user who looks like
+-- they never consented.
+CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION prevent_user_consent_updates()
+  RETURNS TRIGGER AS $$
+BEGIN
+      RAISE EXCEPTION 'user_consents cannot be updated to maintain consent integrity'
+          USING ERRCODE = '45000',  -- User-defined error (Postgres convention: user-defined error codes are in the 45000-45999 range)
+              DETAIL = 'Consent records are immutable once created';
+END;
+  $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;
+
+CREATE TRIGGER trg_user_consents_prevent_update
+    BEFORE UPDATE ON user_consents
+    FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE FUNCTION prevent_user_consent_updates();
+
+COMMENT ON TRIGGER trg_user_consents_prevent_update ON user_consents IS
+    'Enforces immutability of consent records by preventing any UPDATE operation.';
+
+CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION prevent_user_consent_deletes()
+  RETURNS TRIGGER AS $$
+BEGIN
+      RAISE EXCEPTION 'user_consents cannot be deleted to maintain consent integrity'
+          USING ERRCODE = '45000',  -- User-defined error (Postgres convention: user-defined error codes are in the 45000-45999 range)
+              DETAIL = 'Consent records must outlive the user they describe';
+END;
+  $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;
+
+CREATE TRIGGER trg_user_consents_prevent_delete
+    BEFORE DELETE ON user_consents
+    FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE FUNCTION prevent_user_consent_deletes();
+
+COMMENT ON TRIGGER trg_user_consents_prevent_delete ON user_consents IS
+    'Enforces immutability of consent records by preventing any DELETE operation.';