diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c21f4f0c4..afbb9128f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 ### Tests
 - `test/pregate-rust.test.ts` (new, vilano93) covers the crate model, the dependency forms, workspace membership, the cargo summary parser and three end-to-end lane runs. New cases: crates named `evil;touch pwned-by-crate-name` and `evil{files}` never reach the shell (nothing is created, both are unclaimed) while `naïve_crate-2` still runs quoted; `crates/[ab]`, `nested/**/leaf` and `unicode/?` (a 📦 directory) members inherit workspace dependencies; a plain `#[test]` dependent and a `cfg(any(test, feature = "<300 chars>"))` are tests; and a same-named non-member past the size cap is unclaimed rather than run as the member; a hostile members glob, a million unmatched `[` and 100,000 unclosed `#[cfg(` run in a supervised Bun that kills a super-linear version at 30 s. Each failed before its fix.
-- The cargo stand-in now wins PATH lookup everywhere. On windows-free-shard (5) two end-to-end cases failed deterministically because the shim PATH was joined with `:` (Git Bash never saw it) and the runner's real cargo ran against the fixture. On hosts where Bun and cargo share a directory, the lane puts Bun's directory first and the real cargo won the same way. The shim PATH now uses the platform delimiter, adds `cargo.cmd` for Windows lookup, and on POSIX the lane's bash puts the shim first again through `BASH_ENV`.
+- The cargo stand-in now wins PATH lookup everywhere. On windows-free-shard (5) two end-to-end cases failed deterministically because the shim PATH was joined with `:` (Git Bash never saw it) and the runner's real cargo ran against the fixture. On hosts where Bun and cargo share a directory, the lane puts Bun's directory first and the real cargo won the same way. The shim PATH now uses the platform delimiter and Windows' own `Path` key (a second `PATH` key beside it was the one the child ignored), adds `cargo.cmd` for Windows lookup, and on POSIX the lane's bash puts the shim first again through `BASH_ENV`.
 - `test/pregate-selection.test.ts` (vilano93) covers nested pnpm/yarn/vitest/jest packages. Its `pnpm` stand-in gets the same `BASH_ENV` fix: on a host with a real pnpm beside Bun, the end-to-end case installed vitest from the network and came back incomplete.
 
 ### Gate integrity
diff --git a/test/pregate-rust.test.ts b/test/pregate-rust.test.ts
index 4085f3a44..a68c45da9 100644
--- a/test/pregate-rust.test.ts
+++ b/test/pregate-rust.test.ts
@@ -292,7 +292,9 @@ describe('Cargo membership and test detection (port review)', () => {
 });
 
 describe('gstack-pregate on a Rust workspace', () => {
-  const run = (repo: FixtureRepo, env: Record<string, string>) => runBin(repo, 'gstack-pregate', ['--base', 'main', '--allow-repo-commands', '--stage', 'tests', '--only', 'lanes'], env);
+  /** Windows names it `Path`: a second `PATH` key beside it leaves the child's lookup to whichever the OS reads first. */
+  const pathKey = Object.keys(process.env).find(key => key.toLowerCase() === 'path') ?? 'PATH';
+  const run = (repo: FixtureRepo, { PATH, ...env }: Record<string, string>) => runBin(repo, 'gstack-pregate', ['--base', 'main', '--allow-repo-commands', '--stage', 'tests', '--only', 'lanes'], { ...env, [pathKey]: PATH! });
   const log = (out: string) => fs.readFileSync(/log: (\S+)/.exec(out)![1]!, 'utf8');
 
   // Value: protects=the reported case end to end: a touched src file of a workspace crate is not PREGATE_NO_LANE, its crate and the