diff --git a/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/test-wrapper-guard.sh b/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/test-wrapper-guard.sh
index abe0750a..b4304669 100755
--- a/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/test-wrapper-guard.sh
+++ b/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/test-wrapper-guard.sh
@@ -32,7 +32,17 @@ FIXTURES="$TMP/fixtures.tsv"
 {
   printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"git clone https://example.invalid/x ~/wt"}}\tcheckout into $HOME is refused\n'
   printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"git worktree add ~/wt topic"}}\tworktree into $HOME is refused\n'
+  printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"g\\"it\\" clone https://example.invalid/x $HOME/wt"}}\ta double quote inside git does not hide a checkout\n'
+  printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"g'"'"'it'"'"' clone https://example.invalid/x $HOME/wt"}}\ta single quote inside git does not hide a checkout\n'
+  printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"g\\\\it clone https://example.invalid/x $HOME/wt"}}\tan unquoted escape inside git does not hide a checkout\n'
   printf '0\t{"tool_input":{"command":"git clone https://example.invalid/x /src/wt"}}\tcheckout onto a work filesystem is fine\n'
+  # Routing this arm through the shared name site also repaired an over-block it
+  # had carried from the start: the old whole-command regex found `git` INSIDE a
+  # longer word, so these two were refused at every head before this commit.
+  # Same class as mycurl and curl-wrapper, and refusing them is how a guard gets
+  # routed around instead of repaired.
+  printf '0\t{"tool_input":{"command":"mygit clone https://example.invalid/x $HOME/wt"}}\tmygit is a different program and its checkout is not ours\n'
+  printf '0\t{"tool_input":{"command":"gitfoo clone https://example.invalid/x $HOME/wt"}}\tthe name has to end where git ends\n'
   printf '0\t{"tool_input":{"command":"curl -s -X GET https://git.example.invalid/api/v1/repos/a/b/pulls/1"}}\treads are never blocked\n'
   printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"curl -X POST -d @b https://git.example.invalid/api/v1/repos/a/b/pulls/1/reviews"}}\treview write has a wrapper\n'
   printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"curl -X POST -d @b https://git.example.invalid/api/v1/repos/a/b/pulls/1/merge"}}\tmerge write has a wrapper\n'
@@ -323,6 +333,22 @@ FIXTURES="$TMP/fixtures.tsv"
   printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"cu\\"rl\\" --config /tmp/provider-write.cfg"}}\ta quote inside the word does not make it another program\t--config/-K\n'
   printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"cu'"'"'rl'"'"' --config /tmp/provider-write.cfg"}}\tand a single quote inside it is the same word again\t--config/-K\n'
   printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"/usr/bin/cu\\\\rl --config /tmp/provider-write.cfg"}}\tescaping is ordinary word formation, not a disguise\t--config/-K\n'
+  # A backslash is NOT uniformly removed. It is literal inside single quotes,
+  # and inside double quotes when it precedes anything other than $, `, ",
+  # backslash, or newline. These spell a different program and must stay allowed.
+  printf '0\t{"tool_input":{"command":"'"'"'cu\\\\rl'"'"' --config /tmp/provider-write.cfg"}}\ta backslash inside single quotes remains literal\n'
+  printf '0\t{"tool_input":{"command":"\\"cu\\\\rl\\" --config /tmp/provider-write.cfg"}}\ta backslash before r inside double quotes remains literal\n'
+  printf '0\t{"tool_input":{"command":"'"'"'g\\\\it'"'"' clone https://example.invalid/x $HOME/wt"}}\ta literal backslash in a single-quoted non-git name is not a checkout\n'
+  printf '0\t{"tool_input":{"command":"\\"g\\\\it\\" clone https://example.invalid/x $HOME/wt"}}\ta literal backslash in a double-quoted non-git name is not a checkout\n'
+  # The other branch of the same rule: OUTSIDE quotes a backslash escapes the
+  # next character, so an escaped quote is a literal quote IN the name and the
+  # program is not curl. Held separately from the cases above because it is a
+  # different arm of the state machine, and an arm without a fixture is a rule
+  # that is not held.
+  printf '0\t{"tool_input":{"command":"cu\\\\\\"rl\\\\\\" --config /tmp/provider-write.cfg"}}\tan escaped quote is a literal quote in the name\n'
+  # Three quoted segments concatenate into ONE word. This is the shape that
+  # distinguishes quote removal from token separation, so it is worth its own line.
+  printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"\\"cu\\"'"'"'r'"'"'\\"l\\" --config /tmp/provider-write.cfg"}}\tadjacent quoted segments are one word, and that word is curl\t--config/-K\n'
   printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"g\\"h\\" api -X POST repos/a/b/issues -f title=x"}}\tthe CLI name is a word on the same terms\n'
   printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"/usr/bin/g\\\\h api -X POST repos/a/b/issues -f title=x"}}\tincluding when it is escaped behind a path\n'
   # The FLAG is the same recognition problem as the name, and is read the same
diff --git a/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/wrapper-guard.sh b/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/wrapper-guard.sh
index 963d4ead..ac12b449 100755
--- a/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/wrapper-guard.sh
+++ b/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/wrapper-guard.sh
@@ -49,9 +49,9 @@ CMD="$(printf '%s' "$INPUT" | jq -r '.tool_input.command // empty' 2>/dev/null |
 CMD="$(printf '%s' "$CMD" | sed -e ':a' -e 'N' -e '$!ba' -e 's/\\\n//g')"
 
 # A second reading of the SAME command, used by every check below that has to
-# recognize a program by NAME. Quote characters, backslashes and the punctuation
-# of command substitution are DELETED, so a name the shell will resolve is a word
-# here regardless of how it was dressed:
+# recognize a program by NAME. It applies shell word formation without executing
+# expansions, so a name the shell will resolve is a word here regardless of how
+# it was dressed:
 #
 #   "/usr/bin/curl" --config /tmp/req      quoted absolute path
 #   './curl' --config /tmp/req             quoted relative path
@@ -73,10 +73,14 @@ CMD="$(printf '%s' "$CMD" | sed -e ':a' -e 'N' -e '$!ba' -e 's/\\\n//g')"
 # because the whitespace happened to land after a slash — a passing case that
 # established nothing.
 #
-# So the characters are DELETED rather than replaced, which is what quote removal
-# is, and backslashes go with them because escaping is ordinary word formation
-# too. Deletion also handles substitution: `$(which curl)` becomes `which curl`,
-# where the name is a word on its own.
+# Quote removal and escape handling are separate operations. Outside quotes, a
+# backslash escapes the next character. Inside single quotes it is literal.
+# Inside double quotes it escapes only $, `, ", backslash, or newline; before
+# anything else both the backslash and following character remain literal. Quote
+# characters themselves are dropped without splitting the word. The existing
+# substitution flattening remains: unquoted and double-quoted $, (, ), and ` are
+# dropped, so `$(which curl)` becomes `which curl`, where the name is a word on
+# its own.
 #
 # This does NOT try to be a shell. It cannot see a name that is absent from the
 # text — assembled from variables, or reached through a wrapper script that
@@ -89,10 +93,57 @@ CMD="$(printf '%s' "$CMD" | sed -e ':a' -e 'N' -e '$!ba' -e 's/\\\n//g')"
 # these commands inside quotes on a Bash line is refused too. Applying that same
 # rule here keeps the file coherent — the alternative is a guard where the
 # payload arm treats quotes as text and the name arms treat them as armour.
-CMD_NAMES="$(printf '%s' "$CMD" | tr -d '"'"'"'\`()$\\')"
+normalize_command_names() {
+  awk '
+    BEGIN { state = "outside"; out = "" }
+    {
+      if (NR > 1) out = out "\n"
+      for (i = 1; i <= length($0); i++) {
+        c = substr($0, i, 1)
+        if (state == "single") {
+          if (c == "\047") state = "outside"
+          else out = out c
+          continue
+        }
+        if (state == "double") {
+          if (c == "\"") {
+            state = "outside"
+          } else if (c == "\\") {
+            if (i == length($0)) {
+              out = out c
+            } else {
+              nextc = substr($0, i + 1, 1)
+              if (nextc == "$" || nextc == "`" || nextc == "\"" || nextc == "\\") {
+                out = out nextc
+              } else {
+                out = out c nextc
+              }
+              i++
+            }
+          } else if (c != "$" && c != "(" && c != ")" && c != "`") {
+            out = out c
+          }
+          continue
+        }
+        if (c == "\\") {
+          if (i == length($0)) out = out c
+          else { out = out substr($0, i + 1, 1); i++ }
+        } else if (c == "\047") {
+          state = "single"
+        } else if (c == "\"") {
+          state = "double"
+        } else if (c != "$" && c != "(" && c != ")" && c != "`") {
+          out = out c
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    END { printf "%s", out }
+  '
+}
+CMD_NAMES="$(printf '%s' "$CMD" | normalize_command_names)"
 
-# The one place the shape of a program NAME is written down. Both callers below
-# use it, so the next fix to this class lands in a single location instead of
+# The one place the shape of a program NAME is written down. Every name consumer
+# below uses it, so the next fix to this class lands in a single location instead of
 # being applied to whichever arm review happened to probe. The prefix must end
 # at a slash: `mycurl` and `curl-wrapper` are different programs, and blocking
 # them is the over-block that gets a guard routed around instead of repaired.
@@ -197,7 +248,7 @@ if [ "$home_known" -eq 1 ]; then
   home_re="$home_re|$(printf '%s' "$HOME_DIR" | sed 's/[][\.*^$+?(){}|]/\\&/g')"
 fi
 
-if printf '%s' "$CMD" | grep -Eq 'git[^|;&]*(clone|worktree[[:space:]]+add)'; then
+if printf '%s' "$CMD_NAMES" | grep -Eq "${NAME_PREFIX}git[[:space:]]+[^|;&]*(clone([[:space:]]|$)|worktree[[:space:]]+add([[:space:]]|$))"; then
   if [ "$home_known" -eq 0 ]; then
     cat <<EOF
 BLOCKED: this is a checkout, and \$HOME is unset or unusable in this shell.