diff --git a/src/application/environment/environmentBuildReport.test.ts b/src/application/environment/environmentBuildReport.test.ts
index a9825c3193..905cb03a11 100644
--- a/src/application/environment/environmentBuildReport.test.ts
+++ b/src/application/environment/environmentBuildReport.test.ts
@@ -389,3 +389,52 @@ it.each([
     skipped: NONE_SKIPPED,
   });
 });
+
+it.each([
+  { text: "password=example", pointers: ["/password"] },
+  { text: "token=a&page=1&token=b", pointers: ["/token", "/token"] },
+  { text: "%70assword=encoded", pointers: ["/password"] },
+  { text: "flag&password=example", pointers: ["/password"] },
+])(
+  "reviews retained form names without a recorded media type: $text",
+  ({ text, pointers }) => {
+    const capture = scenarioCaptureFixture(
+      [
+        {
+          method: "POST",
+          url: "/api/session",
+          status: 200,
+          mediaType: "application/json",
+          body: "{}",
+          requestBody: text,
+        },
+      ],
+      { request_body: true, response_body: true, header_values: true },
+    );
+    expect(
+      scanCredentialNames(scenarioCaptureRecords(capture, "review").records),
+    ).toEqual({
+      count: pointers.length,
+      pointers: pointers.map((pointer) => `record 0 request ${pointer}`),
+      skipped: NONE_SKIPPED,
+    });
+  },
+);
+
+it("keeps JSON interpretation before an untyped form fallback and honors explicit non-form types", () => {
+  const json = record(7, undefined, undefined);
+  const plain = record(8, undefined, undefined);
+  (json.reported as { request: { postData: unknown } }).request.postData = {
+    mimeType: "",
+    text: '{"name":"password=example","token":"actual"}',
+  };
+  (plain.reported as { request: { postData: unknown } }).request.postData = {
+    mimeType: "text/plain",
+    text: "password=example",
+  };
+  expect(scanCredentialNames([json, plain])).toEqual({
+    count: 1,
+    pointers: ["record 7 request /token"],
+    skipped: NONE_SKIPPED,
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/application/environment/environmentBuildReport.ts b/src/application/environment/environmentBuildReport.ts
index 11707bd1ba..5214aac4dc 100644
--- a/src/application/environment/environmentBuildReport.ts
+++ b/src/application/environment/environmentBuildReport.ts
@@ -103,18 +103,21 @@ const parsedBody = (
   if (typeof text !== "string") return undefined;
   if (cut || Buffer.byteLength(text, "utf8") > SCAN_BODY_LIMIT_BYTES)
     return { kind: "skipped" };
-  const format = typeof mimeType === "string" ? mediaTypeEssence(mimeType) : "";
-  if (format === "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
-    return { kind: "form", fields: [...new URLSearchParams(text)] };
+  const format =
+    typeof mimeType === "string" ? mediaTypeEssence(mimeType) : null;
+  const form = format === "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
   const start = text.trimStart()[0];
-  if (start === "{" || start === "[") {
+  if (!form && (start === "{" || start === "[")) {
     try {
       return { kind: "json", value: JSON.parse(text) };
     } catch {
       return undefined;
     }
   }
-  return undefined;
+  // An unclassified capture can still retain form text. Review its potential names without changing Evidence or manifest interpretation.
+  return form || (format === null && text.includes("="))
+    ? { kind: "form", fields: [...new URLSearchParams(text)] }
+    : undefined;
 };
 
 /** Name/value pairs such as HAR headers and query strings. */
diff --git a/src/domain/analysisView/environmentCoverageView.ts b/src/domain/analysisView/environmentCoverageView.ts
index e2a836ec6f..4c5ca4b188 100644
--- a/src/domain/analysisView/environmentCoverageView.ts
+++ b/src/domain/analysisView/environmentCoverageView.ts
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ export const WITHHELD_WRITE_HINTS = {
     "The write's path names no collection or item the capture reads. Read the collection or item it changes.",
   "no-call":
     "No recorded call of this tool was modelled, for example because every call failed. Record a successful call.",
-  "body-unusable": "The request body is not a usable JSON object.",
+  "body-unusable":
+    "The retained request or response cannot be modelled. Record a successful call with a complete supported request and reproducible response.",
   "no-observation":
     "Nothing showed the entity or document this write changed. Read a created entity back by id right after the write; for an update or delete the state must already hold the entity, so read it before the write or record the create that made it.",
   "unexplained-change":