diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9c94308..d2a132f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -129,13 +129,14 @@ invocation graph, so a second pass cannot creep back in unnoticed.
 `script/fmt-check` remains as a standalone entrypoint for asking the formatting
 question on its own, without docker and without the rest of lint. It is not the
 last formatting path on the host — `script/fmt` writes with the host prettier,
-and `package.json` exposes `fmt` and `fmt-check` as direct prettier calls — it is
-the one of them that the check graph could plausibly have reached, and nothing
-reaches it: neither `script/check` nor `script/precommit` calls it, so it never
-contributes to their verdicts. Its own verdict cannot drift from the container's: prettier is pinned
-to an exact version, installed from `yarn.lock` under `--frozen-lockfile` in
-both places, and reads `.gitignore` as its default ignore file — which is why
-`.dockerignore` deliberately keeps `.gitignore` in the build context.
+and `package.json` exposes `fmt` and `fmt-check` as direct prettier calls — it
+is the one of them that the check graph could plausibly have reached, and
+nothing reaches it: neither `script/check` nor `script/precommit` calls it, so
+it never contributes to their verdicts. Its own verdict cannot drift from the
+container's: prettier is pinned to an exact version, installed from `yarn.lock`
+under `--frozen-lockfile` in both places, and reads `.gitignore` as its default
+ignore file — which is why `.dockerignore` deliberately keeps `.gitignore` in
+the build context.
 
 Lint happens in exactly one place in that graph, which constrains the rest of
 the build. `script/check` calls `script/lint`, so `make check` cannot run inside
diff --git a/test/packaging/lint-once.test.ts b/test/packaging/lint-once.test.ts
index 7b2c4bf..da99f02 100644
--- a/test/packaging/lint-once.test.ts
+++ b/test/packaging/lint-once.test.ts
@@ -1094,6 +1094,43 @@ describe("the resolver reads what the shell would run", () => {
         ]);
     });
 
+    // The false green this file exists to prevent, in the one shape it still
+    // had: `script/lint` chaining a second `docker build` after the lint image
+    // built prettier twice and counted once, because a single `test` and a
+    // single `exec` over the line produced exactly one edge and resolved it to
+    // the first file named. That is the same failure as the original duplicate
+    // pass — two invocations, one verdict — reached through the walker instead
+    // of through the repo.
+    it("follows both docker builds when one line chains two", () => {
+        expect(
+            edgesOf(
+                'docker build --build-arg LINT_EPOCH="$(date +%s)" -f Dockerfile.lint . && docker build -f Dockerfile.extra .',
+            ),
+        ).toEqual(["docker:Dockerfile.lint", "docker:Dockerfile.extra"]);
+    });
+
+    // The other half: a flag search over the whole line reads a *later*
+    // command's `-f` as the build's own. A bare `docker build .` followed by
+    // `cp -f` resolved to `Dockerfile.lint`, which both counts an invocation
+    // that never happens and drops the `Dockerfile` edge — the half of the CI
+    // graph the second entrypoint exists to cover. Each separator that bounds
+    // an invocation is pinned, since the bounding is a split rather than a
+    // shell parse and dropping one of them would be silent.
+    it("does not read a later command's -f as the build's", () => {
+        expect(
+            edgesOf("docker build . && cp -f Dockerfile.lint /tmp/x"),
+        ).toEqual(["docker:Dockerfile"]);
+        expect(
+            edgesOf("docker build . || cp -f Dockerfile.lint /tmp/x"),
+        ).toEqual(["docker:Dockerfile"]);
+        expect(
+            edgesOf("docker build . ; cp -f Dockerfile.lint /tmp/x"),
+        ).toEqual(["docker:Dockerfile"]);
+        expect(edgesOf("docker build . | tee -f Dockerfile.lint")).toEqual([
+            "docker:Dockerfile",
+        ]);
+    });
+
     // This exact-equality assertion is also the block-scalar guard, which is
     // not obvious from its name: a `run: |` step resolves to the bare `|`,
     // which reaches nothing, so the prettier count would stay 1 no matter what