diff --git a/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/test-wrapper-guard.sh b/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/test-wrapper-guard.sh
index aaaf6587..52dd6d21 100755
--- a/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/test-wrapper-guard.sh
+++ b/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/test-wrapper-guard.sh
@@ -95,6 +95,22 @@ FIXTURES="$TMP/fixtures.tsv"
   # the whole command into code because it contains an unrelated `sh -c` is how
   # this blocked its author a second time.
   printf '0\t{"tool_input":{"command":"docker run --rm alpine sh -c '"'"'echo hi'"'"'\\necho \\"example: curl -d@b https://git.example.invalid/api/v1/repos/a/b/issues/1/comments\\" >> notes.md"}}\tan unrelated shell on another line does not promote quoted prose to code\n'
+  # --- round four. The guard was still reading the command as typed rather than
+  # as the shell will run it: a backslash before a newline is removed before
+  # anything else happens, so the endpoint token can be split across the join.
+  printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"curl -d@b https://git.example.invalid/api/v1/repos/a/b/iss\\\\\\nues/1/comments"}}\ta line continuation inside the endpoint token is still that endpoint\n'
+  printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"curl -d@b https://git.example.invalid/api/v1/repos/a/b/pu\\\\\\nlls/1/reviews"}}\tsame join, review endpoint\n'
+  printf '0\t{"tool_input":{"command":"cat >> notes.md <<EOF\\nwe ran: curl -d@b https://git.example.invalid/api/v1/repos/a/b/iss\\\\\\nues/1/comments\\nEOF"}}\tjoining lines does not turn a document into a command\n'
+  # Transparent prefixes take option VALUES, and the value was a word the list
+  # did not know — so the client went missing again behind an ordinary `sudo -u`.
+  printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"sudo -u root curl -d@b https://git.example.invalid/api/v1/repos/a/b/issues/1/comments"}}\tan option value after a prefix does not hide the client\n'
+  printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"timeout --signal TERM 10 curl -d@b https://git.example.invalid/api/v1/repos/a/b/issues/1/comments"}}\tan option pair plus a duration does not hide the client\n'
+  # ...but only an OPTION and its value are skipped, never any word: in
+  # `xargs echo curl ...` the command is echo and the client is its argument.
+  printf '0\t{"tool_input":{"command":"xargs echo curl -d@b https://git.example.invalid/api/v1/repos/a/b/issues/1/comments"}}\ta client passed as an argument to echo is not a call\n'
+  printf '0\t{"tool_input":{"command":"sudo apt-get install curl"}}\tinstalling the client is not calling it\n'
+  # Execution through another command still opens command position.
+  printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"find . -maxdepth 0 -exec curl -d@b https://git.example.invalid/api/v1/repos/a/b/issues/1/comments ;"}}\tfind -exec runs the client\n'
 } > "$FIXTURES"
 
 fail=0 n=0
diff --git a/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/wrapper-guard.sh b/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/wrapper-guard.sh
index 0250a109..cd539736 100755
--- a/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/wrapper-guard.sh
+++ b/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/wrapper-guard.sh
@@ -35,6 +35,15 @@ INPUT="$(cat)"
 CMD="$(printf '%s' "$INPUT" | jq -r '.tool_input.command // empty' 2>/dev/null || true)"
 [ -z "$CMD" ] && exit 0
 
+# Read the command the SHELL will run, not the text as typed. A backslash before
+# a newline is removed before anything else happens, so
+#   curl -d@b https://host/api/v1/repos/a/b/iss\
+#   ues/1/comments
+# executes the comments endpoint while the literal token `issues` never appears
+# in the text. Every check below — position, URL, body, endpoint — reads the
+# joined form, because that is the command.
+CMD="$(printf '%s' "$CMD" | sed -e ':a' -e 'N' -e '$!ba' -e 's/\\\n//g')"
+
 # Honour the override only when it is set in the command itself or the env.
 case "$CMD" in *MOSAIC_WRAPPER_OVERRIDE=1*) exit 0 ;; esac
 [ "${MOSAIC_WRAPPER_OVERRIDE:-0}" = "1" ] && exit 0
@@ -146,10 +155,18 @@ SKEL="$(printf '%s' "$CMD" | awk -v inv="$SHELL_EXECUTES_DATA" '
 # `timeout 10 curl`, `/usr/bin/curl`. The `env` form matters most, because it is
 # precisely what an agent reaches for to keep a credential out of the global
 # environment — the careful spelling was the invisible one.
-CMD_PREFIX='([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*=[^[:space:]]*|env|command|builtin|exec|nohup|setsid|stdbuf|nice|ionice|sudo|doas|xargs|time|timeout|[0-9]+[smhd]?|-[^[:space:]]+)[[:space:]]+'
+CMD_PREFIX='([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*=[^[:space:]]*|env|command|builtin|exec|nohup|setsid|stdbuf|nice|ionice|sudo|doas|xargs|time|timeout|watch)[[:space:]]+'
+# Their options take values: `sudo -u root curl` hid a live write because `root`
+# was a word the list did not know. What is skipped is an OPTION and at most one
+# value for it — not any word — so `xargs echo curl ...` stays allowed, because
+# there `echo` is the command and curl is its argument. Plus a bare duration,
+# which is `timeout`'s operand.
+PREFIX_OPT='-[^[:space:]]+[[:space:]]+([^-][^[:space:]|;&(){}<>]*[[:space:]]+)?'
+PREFIX_ARG='('"$PREFIX_OPT"'|[0-9]+[smhd]?[[:space:]]+)'
 # A path in front of the client is still the client.
 CLIENT='([^[:space:]]*/)?(curl|wget|httpie|http)'
-CLIENT_AT_CMD_POS='(^|[;&|(){}]|`|\$\()[[:space:]]*('"$CMD_PREFIX"')*'"$CLIENT"'([[:space:]]|$)'
+# `find -exec` opens command position the same way an operator does.
+CLIENT_AT_CMD_POS='(^|[;&|(){}]|`|\$\(|-execdir|-exec)[[:space:]]*('"$CMD_PREFIX"'('"$CMD_PREFIX"'|'"$PREFIX_ARG"')*)?'"$CLIENT"'([[:space:]]|$)'
 
 if printf '%s' "$SKEL" | grep -Eq "$CLIENT_AT_CMD_POS" \
    && printf '%s' "$CMD" | grep -Eq 'https?://'; then