diff --git a/.claude/agents/prose-orchestrator.md b/.claude/agents/prose-orchestrator.md
index 95511d0c9..04735107f 100644
--- a/.claude/agents/prose-orchestrator.md
+++ b/.claude/agents/prose-orchestrator.md
@@ -3,12 +3,6 @@ name: prose-orchestrator
 description: Runs one prose-test case end to end — builds the world, dispatches the walker, computes the delta, dispatches the asserter, reruns a failure from a fresh world to confirm it, destroys the world — and returns just the verdict. Dispatched by the /prose-test skill, one per case.
 tools: Bash, Read, Agent
 model: sonnet
-hooks:
-  PostToolUse:
-    - matcher: "Bash"
-      hooks:
-        - type: command
-          command: "node \"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR/tests/prose/lib/record-action.cjs\""
 ---
 
 # Prose Orchestrator
diff --git a/tests/prose/lib/record-action.cjs b/tests/prose/lib/record-action.cjs
index ceb311a59..6681a6a42 100644
--- a/tests/prose/lib/record-action.cjs
+++ b/tests/prose/lib/record-action.cjs
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 
 // The hook that records what prose-test agents actually do.
 //
-// Declared in the frontmatter of prose-walker, prose-orchestrator and
-// prose-asserter, so it fires only while one of them is active. The
+// Declared in the frontmatter of prose-walker and prose-asserter, so it
+// fires only while one of them is active. The
 // agents play no part in it: they cannot forget an entry, summarise one
 // away, or write it late — which is the whole point. Walkers were
 // repeatedly found doing a full walk and reporting only its tail, and
@@ -201,6 +201,13 @@ function main() {
   // every other event is absent from it — resolve it from the transcript.
   const stop = event === 'Stop' || event === 'SubagentStop';
   const traced = stop ? fromTranscript(payload.agent_transcript_path) : null;
+  // The world log is the walker's record. The orchestrator shares this
+  // hook, and its own commands carry world paths in their payloads — the
+  // world it just built, the prompt it just emitted — so without this
+  // gate its rows land in the walker's log ahead of the walk itself,
+  // padding the record and handing the checks substrings no walk ran.
+  if (!agent.includes('walker')) return;
+
   const found = JSON.stringify(payload).match(WORLD);
   const world = found ? found[2].replace(/\\+/g, '') : traced && traced.world;
   if (!world || !fs.existsSync(world)) return;
diff --git a/tests/scripts/test-prose-record-action.cjs b/tests/scripts/test-prose-record-action.cjs
index 172a8cd2a..d865158af 100644
--- a/tests/scripts/test-prose-record-action.cjs
+++ b/tests/scripts/test-prose-record-action.cjs
@@ -164,6 +164,21 @@ describe('prose recorder — tool events', () => {
     assert.ok(row.includes('Usage: engine <command>'), 'and says what came back');
   });
 
+  it('keeps the orchestrator out of the walker\'s record', () => {
+    // The orchestrator's own commands carry world paths — the world it
+    // just built, the prompt it just emitted — and its rows were landing
+    // in the walker's log ahead of the walk itself, padding the record
+    // and handing the checks substrings no walk ran.
+    fire({
+      hook_event_name: 'PostToolUse',
+      tool_name: 'Bash',
+      agent_type: 'prose-orchestrator',
+      tool_input: { command: 'node tests/prose/run.cjs world some-case' },
+      tool_response: { stdout: `{"world":"${world}","case":"some-case"}` },
+    });
+    assert.deepEqual(logLines(), [], 'no orchestrator row reaches the world log');
+  });
+
   it('ignores anything happening outside a world', () => {
     fire({
       hook_event_name: 'PreToolUse',