diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0daaa22..bf01853 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,12 +3,20 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
-## [0.10.7] - 2025-09-22
+## [0.10.7] - 2025-10-24
+
+### Tests
+- Added regression coverage for long classifier needles to exercise the
+  heap-allocation fallback.
 
 ### Changed
 - Added an owning `From<AppError>` conversion for `ErrorResponse` and updated the
   Axum adapter to use it, eliminating redundant clones when building HTTP error
   bodies.
+ - Precomputed lowercase Turnkey classifier needles with a stack-backed buffer
+  to remove repeated transformations while keeping the common zero-allocation
+  path for short patterns.
+
 
 ## [0.10.6] - 2025-09-21
 
diff --git a/src/turnkey/classifier.rs b/src/turnkey/classifier.rs
index f9a2d93..747f76e 100644
--- a/src/turnkey/classifier.rs
+++ b/src/turnkey/classifier.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
 use super::domain::TurnkeyErrorKind;
 
+const STACK_NEEDLE_INLINE_CAP: usize = 64;
+
 /// Heuristic classifier for raw SDK/provider messages (ASCII case-insensitive).
 ///
-/// This helper **does not allocate**; it performs case-insensitive `contains`
-/// checks over the input string to map common upstream texts to stable kinds.
+/// This helper keeps allocations to a minimum; it performs case-insensitive
+/// `contains` checks over the input string to map common upstream texts to
+/// stable kinds while reusing stack buffers for the short ASCII patterns we
+/// match.
 ///
 /// The classifier is intentionally minimal; providers can and will change
 /// messages. Prefer returning structured errors from adapters whenever
@@ -55,20 +59,41 @@ pub fn classify_turnkey_error(msg: &str) -> TurnkeyErrorKind {
 }
 
 /// Returns true if `haystack` contains `needle` ignoring ASCII case.
-/// Performs the search without allocating.
+///
+/// The search avoids heap allocations for needles up to
+/// `STACK_NEEDLE_INLINE_CAP` bytes by reusing a stack buffer. Longer needles
+/// allocate once to store their lowercased representation.
 #[inline]
 fn contains_nocase(haystack: &str, needle: &str) -> bool {
     // Fast path: empty needle always matches.
     if needle.is_empty() {
         return true;
     }
-    // Walk haystack windows and compare ASCII case-insensitively.
-    haystack.as_bytes().windows(needle.len()).any(|w| {
-        w.iter()
-            .copied()
-            .map(ascii_lower)
-            .eq(needle.as_bytes().iter().copied().map(ascii_lower))
-    })
+    let haystack_bytes = haystack.as_bytes();
+    let needle_bytes = needle.as_bytes();
+
+    let search = |needle_lower: &[u8]| {
+        haystack_bytes.windows(needle_lower.len()).any(|window| {
+            window
+                .iter()
+                .zip(needle_lower.iter())
+                .all(|(hay, lower_needle)| ascii_lower(*hay) == *lower_needle)
+        })
+    };
+
+    if needle_bytes.len() <= STACK_NEEDLE_INLINE_CAP {
+        let mut inline = [0u8; STACK_NEEDLE_INLINE_CAP];
+        for (idx, byte) in needle_bytes.iter().enumerate() {
+            inline[idx] = ascii_lower(*byte);
+        }
+        search(&inline[..needle_bytes.len()])
+    } else {
+        let mut lowercased = Vec::with_capacity(needle_bytes.len());
+        for byte in needle_bytes {
+            lowercased.push(ascii_lower(*byte));
+        }
+        search(lowercased.as_slice())
+    }
 }
 
 /// Check whether `haystack` contains any of the `needles` (ASCII
@@ -90,10 +115,17 @@ pub(super) mod internal_tests {
     use super::*;
 
     #[test]
-    fn contains_nocase_works_without_alloc() {
+    fn contains_nocase_matches_ascii_case_insensitively() {
         assert!(contains_nocase("ABCdef", "cDe"));
         assert!(contains_any_nocase("hello world", &["nope", "WORLD"]));
         assert!(!contains_nocase("rustacean", "python"));
         assert!(contains_nocase("", ""));
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn contains_nocase_handles_long_needles() {
+        let haystack = "prefixed".to_owned() + &"A".repeat(128) + "suffix";
+        let needle = "a".repeat(128);
+        assert!(contains_nocase(&haystack, &needle));
+    }
 }