Recursive audits are elegant, but they’re also the sort of thing that turns a clean system into a maze of hidden back‑doors if you let them run unchecked. Think of each call as a breadcrumb that could be dropped in the wrong place, and you’ll end up with a stack overflow or, worse, a blind spot where a rogue dependency slips through. A safer approach is to pull the layers apart incrementally, verify each module in isolation, and keep the recursion depth bounded. That way you can audit the whole thing without creating a new vector of attack.