diff --git a/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/test-wrapper-guard.sh b/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/test-wrapper-guard.sh
index 97270be1..aaaf6587 100755
--- a/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/test-wrapper-guard.sh
+++ b/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/test-wrapper-guard.sh
@@ -74,6 +74,27 @@ FIXTURES="$TMP/fixtures.tsv"
   printf '0\t{"tool_input":{"command":"cat >> notes.md <<EOF\\nwe ran: curl -d@b https://git.example.invalid/api/v1/repos/a/b/issues\\nEOF"}}\ta heredoc body is data, not code\n'
   # ...but quotes stop being data the moment something executes them.
   printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"bash -c \\"curl -d@b https://git.example.invalid/api/v1/repos/a/b/pulls/1/merge\\""}}\tbash -c makes the quoted text code again\n'
+  # --- round three. The skeleton was right about position and wrong about which
+  # words hold it. A word in front of a command does not displace the command:
+  # each of these four is a real write that the bare-name match could not see.
+  printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"env GITEA_TOKEN=$T curl -d@b https://git.example.invalid/api/v1/repos/a/b/issues/1/comments"}}\tenv VAR=... in front of the client is still the client\n'
+  printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"command curl -d@b https://git.example.invalid/api/v1/repos/a/b/issues/1/comments"}}\tcommand in front of the client is still the client\n'
+  printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"timeout 10 curl -d@b https://git.example.invalid/api/v1/repos/a/b/issues/1/comments"}}\ttimeout N in front of the client is still the client\n'
+  printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"/usr/bin/curl -d@b https://git.example.invalid/api/v1/repos/a/b/issues/1/comments"}}\tan absolute path to the client is still the client\n'
+  # ...and the prefix list must stay a list of prefixes. `echo` is not one.
+  printf '0\t{"tool_input":{"command":"echo timeout 10 curl -d@b https://git.example.invalid/api/v1/repos/a/b/issues/1/comments >> notes.md"}}\tnaming a command after echo is not running it\n'
+  # A shell standing between quoted data and execution makes that data code,
+  # and the pipe is the form agents actually use. Filing it as data allowed the
+  # call to vanish from the skeleton while still running.
+  printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"printf '"'"'%%s\\\\n'"'"' '"'"'curl -d@b https://git.example.invalid/api/v1/repos/a/b/issues/1/comments'"'"' | sh"}}\tquoted code piped to a shell is code\n'
+  printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"cat <<EOF | sh\\ncurl -d@b https://git.example.invalid/api/v1/repos/a/b/issues/1/comments\\nEOF"}}\ta heredoc piped to a shell is code\n'
+  printf '2\t{"tool_input":{"command":"sh -s <<EOF\\ncurl -d@b https://git.example.invalid/api/v1/repos/a/b/issues/1/comments\\nEOF"}}\tsh -s reads its script from the heredoc\n'
+  # ...but a pipe to anything that is not a shell leaves the data as data.
+  printf '0\t{"tool_input":{"command":"grep -R \\"curl -d@b https://git.example.invalid/api/v1/repos/a/b/issues/1/comments\\" docs/ | wc -l"}}\tpiping an example to wc is not executing it\n'
+  # ...and a shell on ONE line does not execute a string on another. Switching
+  # 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'
 } > "$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 ab26c75b..0250a109 100755
--- a/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/wrapper-guard.sh
+++ b/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/wrapper-guard.sh
@@ -106,23 +106,50 @@ fi
 # skeleton would be blind to them.
 #
 # The exception is the reason quotes are data at all: if something is about to
-# EXECUTE the quoted text (`bash -c`, `sh <<EOF`, `eval`), then the quotes hold
-# code and the skeleton is the full text again.
-if printf '%s' "$CMD" | grep -Eq '(^|[[:space:]])((ba|z)?sh[[:space:]]+-c|(ba|z)?sh[[:space:]]*<<|eval[[:space:]])'; then
-  # Quotes become command separators rather than disappearing: in `bash -c
-  # "curl ..."` the client IS at command position, just one interpreter down.
-  SKEL="$(printf '%s' "$CMD" | tr "\"'" ';;')"
-else
-  # Heredoc bodies first (line-oriented), then quoted spans (span-oriented).
-  SKEL="$(printf '%s' "$CMD" | awk '
-    { if (hd != "") { if ($0 == hd) hd=""; next }
-      if (match($0, /<<-?[[:space:]]*'"'"'?"?[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*/)) {
-        t = substr($0, RSTART, RLENGTH); sub(/^<<-?[[:space:]]*['"'"'"]?/, "", t); hd = t
-      }
-      print }' | sed "s/'[^']*'//g; s/\"[^\"]*\"//g")"
-fi
+# EXECUTE the quoted text, then the quotes hold code and the skeleton is the
+# full text again. The first version of this list named only `bash -c`, `sh <<`
+# and `eval`, and review immediately produced the spellings it did not know:
+#   printf '%s\n' 'curl -d@b .../comments' | sh
+#   cat <<EOF | sh
+#   sh -s <<EOF
+# Each one executes; each one had its client filed away as data. So the test is
+# not "which invocation form did I think of" but "does a shell stand between
+# this data and execution" — including the pipe, which is the common form.
+SHELL_EXECUTES_DATA='(^|[[:space:]|;&(])((ba|z)?sh|dash)([[:space:]]+-[a-z]*[cs]([[:space:]]|$)|[[:space:]]*<<)'
+SHELL_EXECUTES_DATA="$SHELL_EXECUTES_DATA"'|(^|[[:space:]|;&(])eval([[:space:]]|$)'
+SHELL_EXECUTES_DATA="$SHELL_EXECUTES_DATA"'|\|[[:space:]]*((ba|z)?sh|dash)([[:space:]]|$)'
 
-CLIENT_AT_CMD_POS='(^|[;&|(){}]|`|\$\()[[:space:]]*([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*=[^[:space:]]*[[:space:]]+)*(curl|wget|httpie|http)([[:space:]]|$)'
+# That decision is made PER LINE, not for the whole command. The first version
+# switched globally, and it blocked its author again within the hour: a script
+# whose only shell invocation was an unrelated `docker run ... sh -c 'echo hi'`
+# had every OTHER quoted span on every other line promoted to code with it.
+# A shell on one line does not execute a string on another, and a guard that
+# says otherwise is back to blocking ordinary work.
+SKEL="$(printf '%s' "$CMD" | awk -v inv="$SHELL_EXECUTES_DATA" '
+  function ascode(s) { gsub(/["\047]/, ";", s); return s }   # quotes separate
+  function asdata(s) { gsub(/\047[^\047]*\047/, "", s); gsub(/"[^"]*"/, "", s); return s }
+  {
+    # Inside a heredoc: the body is code only if the line that OPENED it fed a
+    # shell (`cat <<EOF | sh`, `sh -s <<EOF`). Otherwise it is a document.
+    if (hd != "") { if ($0 == hd) { hd=""; next }
+                    if (hdcode) print ascode($0); next }
+    if (match($0, /<<-?[[:space:]]*\047?"?[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*/)) {
+      t = substr($0, RSTART, RLENGTH); sub(/^<<-?[[:space:]]*[\047"]?/, "", t)
+      hd = t; hdcode = ($0 ~ inv)
+    }
+    print ($0 ~ inv) ? ascode($0) : asdata($0)
+  }')"
+
+# Command position is not "the first word is literally `curl`". A word can sit
+# in front of a command without displacing it, and review found four ordinary
+# ones hiding a real write: `env GITEA_TOKEN=$T curl`, `command curl`,
+# `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:]]+'
+# 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:]]|$)'
 
 if printf '%s' "$SKEL" | grep -Eq "$CLIENT_AT_CMD_POS" \
    && printf '%s' "$CMD" | grep -Eq 'https?://'; then