diff --git a/.githooks/pre-push b/.githooks/pre-push
index 212a5eba998..73b9011cd90 100755
--- a/.githooks/pre-push
+++ b/.githooks/pre-push
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Agent-only ship gate (humans: no-op). See scripts/agent-pre-push.mjs.
 # Draft / no PR: free agent push. Ready PR: vp check + typecheck + tests.
-# Publish: pnpm pr:ready (not raw gh pr ready). Agent gh shim: .tools/bin/gh.
+# Publish: pnpm pr:ready, or raw `gh pr ready` — the shim runs the same gate first.
 #
 # Humans: SKIP_AGENT_PREPUSH=1 git push
 # Agents: never SKIP_AGENT_PREPUSH / never --no-verify
@@ -9,4 +9,8 @@
 for name in $(git rev-parse --local-env-vars); do
   unset "$name"
 done
-pnpm exec node scripts/agent-pre-push.mjs
+# Plain `node`, not `pnpm exec node`: pnpm runs a dependency-status check first
+# and will try to purge node_modules when the lockfile moved (a rebase does it),
+# which aborts without a TTY — the hook then fails with a pnpm error instead of
+# anything about the gate. The gate puts node_modules/.bin on PATH itself.
+node scripts/agent-pre-push.mjs