diff --git a/internal/agents/claudecode/hooks.go b/internal/agents/claudecode/hooks.go
index 5fb6b9aee..8956e211b 100644
--- a/internal/agents/claudecode/hooks.go
+++ b/internal/agents/claudecode/hooks.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"regexp"
 	"slices"
 	"strings"
 
@@ -142,8 +143,21 @@ func ResolveHookCommand(w io.Writer) string {
 // than Windows-guarded — any backslash in an unquoted shell command is
 // a bug regardless of OS, and a real Unix binary path never contains
 // one as a separator.
+//
+// The normalized path is then single-quoted when it contains a character
+// a shell would interpret (space, tab, or any of `$"'&|;()` etc.). A
+// normal install path — /opt/homebrew/bin/gortex — is emitted unchanged;
+// a space would otherwise word-split the command and a `$var`/backtick
+// would expand at hook-fire time. A bare word from the PATH fallback is
+// already a simple token and needs no quoting.
+var shellSafePathToken = regexp.MustCompile(`^[A-Za-z0-9_./:+-]+$`)
+
 func shellSafeHookBinary(path string) string {
-	return strings.ReplaceAll(path, "\\", "/")
+	path = strings.ReplaceAll(path, "\\", "/")
+	if !shellSafePathToken.MatchString(path) {
+		return "'" + strings.ReplaceAll(path, "'", `'\''`) + "'"
+	}
+	return path
 }
 
 // HookCommandPathIsEphemeral reports whether cmd's binary path lives
diff --git a/internal/agents/claudecode/hooks_test.go b/internal/agents/claudecode/hooks_test.go
index 514000eea..56ec45add 100644
--- a/internal/agents/claudecode/hooks_test.go
+++ b/internal/agents/claudecode/hooks_test.go
@@ -221,6 +221,8 @@ func TestShellSafeHookBinary(t *testing.T) {
 		{"unixAbsolute", "/opt/homebrew/bin/gortex", "/opt/homebrew/bin/gortex"},
 		{"bareName", "gortex", "gortex"},
 		{"forwardSlashesUnchanged", "C:/Users/me/gortex.exe", "C:/Users/me/gortex.exe"},
+		{"spaceInPath", "/opt/homebrew/bin/gortex beta/gortex.exe", "'/opt/homebrew/bin/gortex beta/gortex.exe'"},
+		{"dollarInPath", "/opt/$(whoami)/gortex", "'/opt/$(whoami)/gortex'"},
 	}
 	for _, tc := range cases {
 		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {