diff --git a/scripts/codex-git-hooks/pre-push b/scripts/codex-git-hooks/pre-push
index dfeeab4fd..ff66512a1 100755
--- a/scripts/codex-git-hooks/pre-push
+++ b/scripts/codex-git-hooks/pre-push
@@ -169,9 +169,20 @@ repo_ships_interpreter() {
   top="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null)" || return 1
   top="$(cd -P -- "$top" 2>/dev/null && pwd -P)" || return 1
   [[ -n "$top" && "$real" == "$top/"* ]] || return 1
-  git ls-files --error-unmatch -- "${real#"$top"/}" >/dev/null 2>&1
+  # `:(icase)` because git matches index pathspecs case-sensitively even where
+  # core.ignorecase is set, while the filesystem underneath does not. On macOS's
+  # APFS -- the platform this hook most often runs on -- a committed
+  # `.venv/bin/Python` is what `$venv/bin/python` opens and executes, but a
+  # case-sensitive query for the lowercase name finds nothing in the index and the
+  # guard waves it through. Measured: that spelling ran the planted binary twice.
+  git ls-files --error-unmatch -- ":(icase)${real#"$top"/}" >/dev/null 2>&1
 }
 
+# `-I` isolates the probe: without it Python puts the working directory first on
+# sys.path, so a repository that commits a `pytest.py` in its root gets that file
+# imported -- and executed -- by a check whose only job is to answer whether pytest
+# exists. Measured: a committed pytest.py ran during the probe. Isolation does not
+# hide a real pytest, which lives in the interpreter's own site-packages.
 resolve_pytest() {
   # `${VAR+set}` rather than `-n "${VAR:-}"`, so that a variable set to nothing is
   # still an override: `ECC_PYTEST_CMD=` and `ECC_PYTEST_CMD="   "` now behave
@@ -206,20 +217,20 @@ resolve_pytest() {
         log "  this hook runs on every push in every repository."
         continue
       fi
-      if "$venv/bin/python" -c "import pytest" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+      if "$venv/bin/python" -I -c "import pytest" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
         PYTEST_CMD=("$venv/bin/python" -m pytest)
         return 0
       fi
     fi
   done
   if [[ -f "uv.lock" ]] && command -v uv >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-    if uv run --no-sync python -c "import pytest" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    if uv run --no-sync python -I -c "import pytest" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
       PYTEST_CMD=(uv run --no-sync pytest)
       return 0
     fi
   fi
   if [[ -f "poetry.lock" ]] && command -v poetry >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-    if poetry run python -c "import pytest" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    if poetry run python -I -c "import pytest" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
       PYTEST_CMD=(poetry run pytest)
       return 0
     fi
diff --git a/tests/scripts/codex-hooks.test.js b/tests/scripts/codex-hooks.test.js
index 11f8d0115..1171de52c 100644
--- a/tests/scripts/codex-hooks.test.js
+++ b/tests/scripts/codex-hooks.test.js
@@ -319,6 +319,7 @@ function runHermeticPythonPrePush({
   venvName = null,
   venvExit = 0,
   trackVenv = false,
+  trackedVenvBasename = 'python',
   trackedSymlinkVenv = false,
   pytestCmd = null,
   overrideStub = false,
@@ -340,9 +341,11 @@ function runHermeticPythonPrePush({
   // A tracked venv has to live inside the repository to be trackable at all, and is
   // found by directory-name discovery rather than by VIRTUAL_ENV.
   const venvDir = venvName === null ? null : path.join(trackVenv ? projectDir : tempDir, venvName);
-  const venvPython = venvDir === null ? null : path.join(venvDir, 'bin', 'python');
+  const venvPython = venvDir === null
+    ? null
+    : path.join(venvDir, 'bin', trackVenv ? trackedVenvBasename : 'python');
   if (venvPython !== null) {
-    writeExecutable(venvPython, `#!/bin/sh\n${record}\nif [ "$1" = "-c" ]; then exit 0; fi\nexit ${venvExit}\n`);
+    writeExecutable(venvPython, `#!/bin/sh\n${record}\ncase " $* " in *" -c "*) exit 0 ;; esac\nexit ${venvExit}\n`);
     if (trackVenv) {
       // Staged, not committed: `git ls-files` reads the index, so this is enough to
       // make the file repository-controlled without needing a committer identity.
@@ -414,7 +417,7 @@ if (
     const python = toBashPath(venvPython);
     assert.strictEqual(result.status, 0, `${result.stdout}\n${result.stderr}`);
     assert.deepStrictEqual(calls, [
-      `${python}|-c import pytest`,
+      `${python}|-I -c import pytest`,
       `${python}|-m pytest -q`,
     ], JSON.stringify({ calls, python, stdout: result.stdout, stderr: result.stderr }, null, 2));
   })
@@ -433,6 +436,26 @@ if (
   passed++;
 else failed++;
 
+// A case-folded spelling, because macOS resolves `$venv/bin/python` to a committed
+// `Python` while git matches index pathspecs case-sensitively. Skipped where the
+// filesystem is case-sensitive and the two names cannot collide.
+if (fs.existsSync(__filename.toUpperCase()) || fs.existsSync(__filename.toLowerCase())) {
+  if (
+    test('pre-push refuses a tracked interpreter committed under a folded case', () => {
+      const { result, calls } = runHermeticPythonPrePush({
+        venvName: '.venv',
+        trackVenv: true,
+        trackedVenvBasename: 'Python',
+      });
+      assert.strictEqual(result.status, 0, `${result.stdout}\n${result.stderr}`);
+      assert.deepStrictEqual(calls, [], JSON.stringify(calls));
+      assert.match(result.stdout, /the repository ships it/);
+    })
+  )
+    passed++;
+  else failed++;
+}
+
 if (
   test('pre-push refuses a tracked interpreter reached through a committed symlink', () => {
     const { result, calls } = runHermeticPythonPrePush({ trackedSymlinkVenv: true });