diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index ef82cbb7..52278707 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ jobs:
             frontend/roslyn/samples/DiCaptiveSample.cs \
             frontend/roslyn/samples/SampleTypes.cs \
             frontend/roslyn/samples/PipeFieldsSample.cs \
+            frontend/roslyn/samples/AppLifetimeSample.cs \
             -o "$RUNNER_TEMP/facts.json"
           cat "$RUNNER_TEMP/facts.json"
       - name: Check facts through the core
@@ -283,6 +284,14 @@ jobs:
           if echo "$out" | grep -q "CleanStaticEventViewModel"; then
             echo "FAIL: an unsubscribed (released) static-event subscription was wrongly reported"; exit 1
           fi
+          # P-004 process-lived-subscriber exemption (mined: ScreenToGif App +
+          # Translator): the WPF `App` singleton hooking the process-lived
+          # AppDomain.UnhandledException promotes nothing, so the static-source region
+          # escape (OWN014) must NOT fire — for both the name-based (`partial class
+          # App`) and base-based (`: Application`) shapes.
+          if echo "$out" | grep -q "AppLifetimeSample.cs"; then
+            echo "FAIL: a process-lived App static-event subscription was wrongly reported (OWN014 FP)"; exit 1
+          fi
           # P-006 DI001 (captive dependency): the registration + constructor graph
           # extracted from DiCaptiveSample.cs feeds ownlang/di.py. A singleton that
           # captures a scoped service — directly, transitively through a transient,
diff --git a/frontend/roslyn/OwnSharp.Extractor/Program.cs b/frontend/roslyn/OwnSharp.Extractor/Program.cs
index e83ee2b9..091baec2 100644
--- a/frontend/roslyn/OwnSharp.Extractor/Program.cs
+++ b/frontend/roslyn/OwnSharp.Extractor/Program.cs
@@ -189,6 +189,37 @@ static bool IsStaticHandler(ExpressionSyntax right, SemanticModel model) =>
     IsHandler(right)
         && model.GetSymbolInfo(right).Symbol is IMethodSymbol { IsStatic: true };
 
+// P-004 process-lived-subscriber exemption: the WPF application object (`App`) is a
+// process-lived singleton — exactly one instance, created at startup, alive until
+// the process exits. Subscribing it to a process-lived static event
+// (`AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException`, `SystemEvents.*`) promotes nothing:
+// its "leaked" lifetime already equals the process. So a static-source region escape
+// (OWN014) raised from inside `App` is a false positive (found mining ScreenToGif
+// and its bundled Translator tool, both flagged on the textbook unhandled-exception
+// hook). Detected syntactically because WPF does not resolve on the Linux runner:
+// either the class derives from `Application` / `System.Windows.Application`, or it
+// is the conventional XAML-split `partial class App` (whose `: Application` lives in
+// the generated `App.g.cs` partial the extractor never sees). Only the STATIC-source
+// escape is suppressed; an instance-field subscription leak inside `App` still fires.
+static bool IsProcessLivedApplication(TypeDeclarationSyntax cls)
+{
+    if (cls.BaseList is { } bl)
+        foreach (var bt in bl.Types)
+        {
+            var n = bt.Type switch
+            {
+                IdentifierNameSyntax id => id.Identifier.Text,
+                QualifiedNameSyntax q => q.Right.Identifier.Text,
+                AliasQualifiedNameSyntax aq => aq.Name.Identifier.Text,
+                _ => null,
+            };
+            if (n is "Application")
+                return true;
+        }
+    return cls.Identifier.Text == "App"
+        && cls.Modifiers.Any(m => m.IsKind(SyntaxKind.PartialKeyword));
+}
+
 // P-004 severity tiering: of the subscriptions that survive the self-owned and
 // static-handler exemptions (and are not timers), how long-lived is the event
 // SOURCE? A static event lives for the whole process, so an undetached handler is
@@ -1906,6 +1937,10 @@ or ImplicitObjectCreationExpressionSyntax
                 && IsTemplatePartFetch(a.Right))
                 selfOwned.Add(tf.Name);
 
+        // Is this class the process-lived WPF application object? Used to drop the
+        // static-source region escape (OWN014) — `App` cannot be over-promoted.
+        var clsIsApp = IsProcessLivedApplication(cls);
+
         var subs = new List<object>();
         foreach (var a in assigns)
         {
@@ -1938,6 +1973,11 @@ or ImplicitObjectCreationExpressionSyntax
                                      : SubscriptionSourceKind(a.Left, ev, model);
                 if (source == "local")
                     continue;
+                // Process-lived subscriber (the WPF `App` singleton): a static-source
+                // subscription promotes nothing — `App` already lives for the whole
+                // process — so the region escape (OWN014) is a false positive.
+                if (source == "static" && clsIsApp)
+                    continue;
                 var released = unsub.Contains($"{a.Left}|{a.Right}")
                     || (isTimer && Receiver(a.Left) is { } recv && stopped.Contains(recv));
                 subs.Add(new
diff --git a/frontend/roslyn/samples/AppLifetimeSample.cs b/frontend/roslyn/samples/AppLifetimeSample.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a7dbe670
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/roslyn/samples/AppLifetimeSample.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+using System;
+using System.Windows;
+
+namespace Own.Samples.WpfApp;
+
+// P-004 process-lived-subscriber exemption (mined from ScreenToGif + its Translator).
+//
+// The WPF application object (`App`) is a process-lived singleton: subscribing it to
+// a process-lived static event (AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException) is the
+// textbook global-exception hook and promotes nothing — App already lives for the
+// whole process. So the static-source region escape (OWN014) must NOT fire on it.
+// Two detection shapes, both must stay SILENT:
+
+// (1) name-based: ScreenToGif's real shape — `partial class App` whose `: Application`
+//     lives in the generated `App.g.cs` partial the extractor never sees (here the
+//     only visible base is IDisposable).
+public partial class App : IDisposable
+{
+    private void App_Startup(object sender, EventArgs e)
+    {
+        AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException += CurrentDomain_UnhandledException;
+    }
+
+    private void CurrentDomain_UnhandledException(object sender, UnhandledExceptionEventArgs e)
+    {
+        Console.WriteLine(e.ExceptionObject);
+    }
+
+    public void Dispose() { }
+}
+
+// (2) base-based: a custom-named application object deriving from `Application`
+//     directly in the .cs (the base stays unresolved on the Linux runner, but the
+//     syntactic base-name detection still applies).
+public class BootstrapApp : Application
+{
+    public void Init()
+    {
+        AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException += OnUnhandled;
+    }
+
+    private void OnUnhandled(object sender, UnhandledExceptionEventArgs e)
+    {
+        Console.WriteLine(e.ExceptionObject);
+    }
+}