diff --git a/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/test-wrapper-guard.sh b/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/test-wrapper-guard.sh
index 68e24467..a280e41a 100755
--- a/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/test-wrapper-guard.sh
+++ b/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/test-wrapper-guard.sh
@@ -314,6 +314,29 @@ FIXTURES="$TMP/fixtures.tsv"
   printf '0\t{"tool_input":{"command":"mygh api -X POST repos/a/b/issues -f title=x"}}\tmygh is not gh, and the scope gate must not over-admit either\n'
   printf '0\t{"tool_input":{"command":"/usr/bin/gh api repos/a/b/issues"}}\ta read through an absolute path is still a read\n'
 
+  # Quotes and backslashes INSIDE the word. The previous repair replaced quote
+  # characters with whitespace, which is token separation and not quote removal:
+  # a shell removes a quote without splitting the word around it, so `cu"rl"` is
+  # one word naming curl while whitespace made it two words naming neither.
+  # `"/usr/bin/curl"` passed under that version only because the inserted space
+  # happened to land after a slash, which established nothing.
+  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'
+  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
+  # way. No review raised this one; the name was simply the easier half to reach.
+  printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"curl --con\\"fig\\" /tmp/provider-write.cfg"}}\tone word spelling --config is still --config\t--config/-K\n'
+
+  # The unreadable-endpoint arm is the THIRD name consumer. It kept a private
+  # bare-name copy of the scope gate's regex, so a caller could be admitted by
+  # the repaired gate and then go unrecognized by the fail-closed refinement —
+  # a gate and its own refinement disagreeing about who the caller is.
+  printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"/usr/bin/gh api -X POST repos/a/b/$EP -f title=x"}}\ta path-qualified CLI with an assembled endpoint is still unreadable\n'
+  printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"g\\"h\\" api -X POST repos/a/b/$EP -f title=x"}}\tand so is a quoted one, which is where the two halves disagreed\n'
+  printf '0\t{"tool_input":{"command":"mygh api -X POST repos/a/b/$EP -f title=x"}}\tmygh is still not gh, in the refinement as well as the gate\n'
+
   # Percent-encoded endpoints. Not hypothetical: /issues/1174 and /iss%%75es/1174
   # both returned HTTP 200 with the same object from the live forge, so the
   # encoded spelling IS the wrapped endpoint and the literal comparison below it
diff --git a/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/wrapper-guard.sh b/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/wrapper-guard.sh
index bd826a94..963d4ead 100755
--- a/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/wrapper-guard.sh
+++ b/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/wrapper-guard.sh
@@ -48,25 +48,35 @@ CMD="$(printf '%s' "$INPUT" | jq -r '.tool_input.command // empty' 2>/dev/null |
 # joined form, because that is the command.
 CMD="$(printf '%s' "$CMD" | sed -e ':a' -e 'N' -e '$!ba' -e 's/\\\n//g')"
 
-# A second reading of the SAME command, used only by the two checks below that
-# have to recognize a program by name. Quote characters and the punctuation of
-# command substitution become whitespace, so a name that the shell will resolve
-# is a word here regardless of how it was dressed:
+# 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:
 #
 #   "/usr/bin/curl" --config /tmp/req      quoted absolute path
 #   './curl' --config /tmp/req             quoted relative path
 #   $(which curl) --config /tmp/req        command substitution
 #   `which curl` --config /tmp/req         the older spelling of the same thing
 #   /usr/bin/gh api -X POST repos/a/b/...  absolute path to a provider CLI
+#   cu"rl" --config /tmp/req               quotes INSIDE the word
+#   /usr/bin/cu\rl --config /tmp/req       a backslash inside the word
+#   g"h" api -X POST repos/a/b/...         the same, in the provider-CLI name
 #
-# All five executed the real program and all five returned ALLOW from the two
-# name checks, at this file's previous head and the one before it. The first
-# repair of this class matched curl as a basename and stopped there, which fixed
-# the unquoted spelling only: the check still modelled ONE TEXTUAL PRESENTATION
-# of a shell word rather than the word itself, so adding two quote characters
-# restored the bypass, and the same defect sat untouched in the provider-CLI arm
-# the whole time. Recognizing a name is either done after quote removal or it is
-# caller-name parsing wearing a longer regex.
+# Every one of them executed the real program and every one returned ALLOW, at
+# each of this file's three previous heads. The repairs went bare word, then
+# unquoted basename, then quotes-as-separators; each fixed a PRESENTATION and
+# left the class, and the third is worth spelling out because it is the subtlest
+# and it was mine: replacing quote characters with whitespace is token
+# SEPARATION, not quote removal. A shell removes a quote WITHOUT splitting the
+# word around it, so `cu"rl"` is one word naming curl, while whitespace made it
+# two words naming neither. `"/usr/bin/curl"` blocked under that version only
+# because the whitespace happened to land after a slash — a passing case that
+# established nothing.
+#
+# So the characters are DELETED rather than replaced, which is what quote removal
+# is, and backslashes go with them because escaping is ordinary word formation
+# too. Deletion also handles substitution: `$(which curl)` becomes `which curl`,
+# where the name is a word on its own.
 #
 # 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
@@ -79,8 +89,7 @@ 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' "$CMD" | tr '"'"'"'\`()' '     ')"
-CMD_NAMES="$(printf '%s' "$CMD_NAMES" | sed 's/\$/ /g')"
+CMD_NAMES="$(printf '%s' "$CMD" | tr -d '"'"'"'\`()$\\')"
 
 # 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
@@ -340,8 +349,12 @@ fi
 # command text at all. That is a limit of inspecting a command string rather
 # than a defect this pattern can close, and it is stated rather than left for
 # the next reader to find.
+# The FLAG is read from $CMD_NAMES too. It is the same recognition problem as
+# the name — `--con"fig"` is one word spelling --config — and no review has
+# raised it yet only because the name was the easier half to reach. Reading both
+# halves the same way is the point of having one normalization.
 if printf '%s' "$CMD_NAMES" | grep -Eq "${NAME_PREFIX}curl([[:space:]]|$)" \
-   && printf '%s' "$CMD" | grep -Eq -- '(^|[[:space:]])(-[A-Za-z]*K([[:space:]=]|$|[^[:space:]])|--config([[:space:]=]|$))'; then
+   && printf '%s' "$CMD_NAMES" | grep -Eq -- '(^|[[:space:]])(-[A-Za-z]*K([[:space:]=]|$|[^[:space:]])|--config([[:space:]=]|$))'; then
   cat <<EOF
 BLOCKED: curl invocation whose request is supplied from a --config/-K file.
 
@@ -648,9 +661,31 @@ edit — that one is a real wrapper gap, and the override exists for it." ;;
        && printf '%s' "$CMD" | grep -Eq "$FORGE"; then unreadable=1; fi
     printf '%s' "$CMD" | grep -Eq \
       "$URLTOK($FORGE$URLTOK"'[$`]'"|"'[$`]'"$URLTOK$FORGE)" && unreadable=1
-    printf '%s' "$CMD" | grep -Eq \
-      '(^|[[:space:]|;&(])(gh|tea|glab|hub)[[:space:]]+api([[:space:]]+(--|--?[A-Za-z][A-Za-z-]*)([[:space:]]+[^-[:space:]][^[:space:]]*)?)*[[:space:]]+[^-[:space:]][^[:space:]]*[$`]' \
-      && unreadable=1
+    # THIRD name consumer, and the one that proves the point about a single
+    # site: while the scope gate above was repaired for path- and quote-dressed
+    # provider CLIs, this fail-closed refinement kept its own bare-name copy of
+    # the same regex against raw $CMD. A caller could therefore enter the scope
+    # gate through the fixed check and then fail to be recognized by the arm
+    # that refuses unreadable endpoints — name recognition differing between a
+    # gate and its own refinement, which is the defect one layer downstream.
+    # It reads $CMD_NAMES through $NAME_PREFIX like every other name check.
+    #
+    # The endpoint tail still asks $CMD, deliberately: this arm fires on an
+    # endpoint the guard CANNOT READ, and the expansion markers that make it
+    # unreadable are exactly the characters $CMD_NAMES removes. Reading the tail
+    # from the normalized copy would erase the evidence the check exists to find.
+    #
+    # The tail carries NO name of its own. Leaving one there was the same defect
+    # a third time in the same edit — the name gate would recognize `g"h" api`
+    # while the tail still demanded the undressed spelling, so the two halves
+    # disagreed about the same caller and the refinement failed open. Each half
+    # now asks exactly one question: the name gate asks WHO, from the normalized
+    # copy; the tail asks whether the ENDPOINT is readable, from the raw text.
+    if printf '%s' "$CMD_NAMES" | grep -Eq "${NAME_PREFIX}(gh|tea|glab|hub)[[:space:]]+api([[:space:]]|$)" \
+       && printf '%s' "$CMD" | grep -Eq \
+      '(^|[[:space:]])api([[:space:]]+(--|--?[A-Za-z][A-Za-z-]*)([[:space:]]+[^-[:space:]][^[:space:]]*)?)*[[:space:]]+[^-[:space:]][^[:space:]]*[$`]'; then
+      unreadable=1
+    fi
 
     if [ -z "$endpoint" ] && [ "$unreadable" -eq 1 ]; then
       cat <<EOF