diff --git a/plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json b/plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
index 6017ce9..7cd103f 100644
--- a/plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
+++ b/plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "scribe",
   "description": "Scribe for Claude Code: connects the scribe MCP server, adds the hooks that deliver live project state and relevant records at the right moment, ships the shared client-neutral Scribe skills (using-scribe, writing-plans, reporting-back, systematic-debugging, verification, brainstorming, reusing-code, shape-accounting), and syncs your saved Scribe Processes as skills (/scribe:sync).",
-  "version": "2026.09.14.2234",
+  "version": "2026.09.14.2237",
   "author": {
     "name": "Bryan Van Deusen"
   },
diff --git a/plugin/hooks/scribe_report_check.sh b/plugin/hooks/scribe_report_check.sh
index 72f8a5d..54cf313 100644
--- a/plugin/hooks/scribe_report_check.sh
+++ b/plugin/hooks/scribe_report_check.sh
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ marker="$state_dir/${safe_sid}.blocked"
 # check. Keeps the ordinary turn at one grep. Process substitution, NOT a pipe:
 # under `pipefail`, `grep -q` exiting on the first match kills `tail` with
 # SIGPIPE, and the pipeline then reports failure precisely when it matched.
-grep -q -E '"name":"([^"]*__)?(update|create)_task"' < <(tail -c 2000000 "$transcript" 2>/dev/null) || {
+grep -q -E '"name":[[:space:]]*"([^"]*__)?(update|create)_task"' < <(tail -c 2000000 "$transcript" 2>/dev/null) || {
   rm -f "$marker" 2>/dev/null || true
   exit 0
 }
diff --git a/tests/test_report_check_hook.py b/tests/test_report_check_hook.py
index 2269be9..d401d0f 100644
--- a/tests/test_report_check_hook.py
+++ b/tests/test_report_check_hook.py
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ def _text(text):
 
 def _transcript(tmp_path, lines):
     path = tmp_path / "t.jsonl"
-    path.write_text("\n".join(json.dumps(line) for line in lines) + "\n")
+    # Compact, like the file Claude Code writes ({"name":"…"}, no spaces).
+    path.write_text("\n".join(json.dumps(line, separators=(",", ":")) for line in lines) + "\n")
     return path