diff --git a/test/codex-invocation-sites.test.ts b/test/codex-invocation-sites.test.ts
index 7faab3322..98c267739 100644
--- a/test/codex-invocation-sites.test.ts
+++ b/test/codex-invocation-sites.test.ts
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ function render(host: string): string[] {
 }
 
 describe('every rendered Codex invocation is classified by the shared validator', () => {
-  const rendered = Object.fromEntries(['claude', 'codex'].map(host => [host, render(host).flatMap(f => codexSites(fs.readFileSync(f, 'utf8'), path.relative(TMP, f)))]));
+  const rendered = Object.fromEntries(['claude', 'codex'].map(host => [host, render(host).flatMap(f => codexSites(fs.readFileSync(f, 'utf8'), path.relative(TMP, f).split(path.sep).join('/')))]));
 
   test('the Claude render has the expected invocation sites', () => {
     const files = new Set(rendered.claude!.map(s => s.file.replace(/^claude\//, '')));
diff --git a/test/investigate-freeze-path.test.ts b/test/investigate-freeze-path.test.ts
index 393bbbf7c..fcd7f1b4a 100644
--- a/test/investigate-freeze-path.test.ts
+++ b/test/investigate-freeze-path.test.ts
@@ -80,9 +80,11 @@ describe('E1: freeze boundary and target share one platform-aware normalization
     ['C:\\dev\\proj\\src\\', 'C:\\dev\\proj\\src-old\\a.py', 'deny'],
     ['C:\\dev\\proj\\src\\', 'D:\\dev\\proj\\src\\a.py', 'deny'],
     ['C:\\dev\\proj\\src\\', 'C:\\dev\\proj\\other\\missing\\a.py', 'deny'],
-    ['\\\\server\\share\\proj\\', '\\\\server\\share\\proj\\a.py', 'allow'],
-    ['\\\\server\\share\\proj\\', '\\\\server\\other\\proj\\a.py', 'deny'],
-    ['\\\\server\\share\\proj\\', '/server/share/proj/a.py', 'deny'],
+    // A reserved .invalid host fails name resolution at once; a single-label
+    // host makes Windows probe the network for ~10 s per filesystem call.
+    ['\\\\server.invalid\\share\\proj\\', '\\\\server.invalid\\share\\proj\\a.py', 'allow'],
+    ['\\\\server.invalid\\share\\proj\\', '\\\\server.invalid\\other\\proj\\a.py', 'deny'],
+    ['\\\\server.invalid\\share\\proj\\', '/server.invalid/share/proj/a.py', 'deny'],
   ])('boundary %s, target %s → %s', (boundary, target, expected) => {
     expect(freezeDecision(boundary, target)).toBe(expected);
   });
@@ -196,10 +198,13 @@ describe('E1: registered hook commands run under cmd.exe and POSIX sh (#2354)',
       for (const [label, argv] of shells) {
         test(`${rel} hook #${i + 1} reaches a decision via ${label}`, () => {
           withInstalledHome((home) => withState(path.join(home, 'frozen'), (env) => {
+            // Claude Code hands cmd.exe its command line verbatim (Node's shell
+            // spawn); MSVC-quoting it would escape the inner quotes cmd.exe reads.
             const r = Bun.spawnSync(argv(home), {
               stdin: Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(input)),
               env: { ...env, HOME: home },
               timeout: 15_000,
+              windowsVerbatimArguments: IS_WIN,
             });
             expect(r.exitCode, r.stderr.toString()).toBe(0);
             expect(decision(r.stdout.toString())).toBe(expected);
diff --git a/test/paid-report-census.test.ts b/test/paid-report-census.test.ts
index b57a0ae74..8f693bc08 100644
--- a/test/paid-report-census.test.ts
+++ b/test/paid-report-census.test.ts
@@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ describe('census attribution from the 2026-10-03 artifacts', () => {
       const qa = junit(dir, 'skill-e2e-qa-workflow');
       fs.writeFileSync(qa, fs.readFileSync(qa, 'utf8').replace(/(<testcase name="qa-fix-loop"[^>]*?) \/>/, '$1><skipped /></testcase>'));
       const cso = junit(dir, 'skill-e2e-cso');
-      fs.writeFileSync(cso, fs.readFileSync(cso, 'utf8').replace('</testsuite>\n</testsuites>',
-        '<testcase name="an unlabeled helper" classname="CSO v3" time="1" file="test/skill-e2e-cso.test.ts" line="9" />\n</testsuite>\n</testsuites>'));
+      fs.writeFileSync(cso, fs.readFileSync(cso, 'utf8').replace(/<\/testsuite>(\r?\n)<\/testsuites>/,
+        '<testcase name="an unlabeled helper" classname="CSO v3" time="1" file="test/skill-e2e-cso.test.ts" line="9" />$1</testsuite>$1</testsuites>'));
     });
     expect(r.status, r.out).toBe(0);
     expect(r.out).toContain('  SKIPPED 1 · INFRA 0 · INCOMPLETE 0 · unattributed 1 · ACTION REQUIRED 0');