diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e489348a..78f96b74 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -41,4 +41,8 @@ extend-exclude = [
 
 [tool.pytest.ini_options]
 testpaths = ["tests"]
-pythonpath = ["src", "scripts"]
+# Repo root (".") must be on the path so tests can `import scripts.<mod>`: the
+# scripts package (scripts/__init__.py) is imported as a top-level package by
+# 26 test modules. Without ".", the console-script `pytest` used in CI cannot
+# find it — only `python -m pytest`, which adds the CWD, worked, masking the gap.
+pythonpath = ["src", "scripts", "."]
diff --git a/src/openamp_foundry/cli/main.py b/src/openamp_foundry/cli/main.py
index 1db13a82..aa194839 100644
--- a/src/openamp_foundry/cli/main.py
+++ b/src/openamp_foundry/cli/main.py
@@ -2286,7 +2286,7 @@ def build_parser() -> argparse.ArgumentParser:
     )
     negative_result_parser.set_defaults(func=_run_negative_result_check)
 
-    experiment_priority_parser = subparsers.add_parser(
+    experiment_priority_parser = sub.add_parser(
         "experiment-priority-check",
         help="Validate an experiment priority justification entry",
     )