diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index bc3f23d..e4206f0 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -792,6 +792,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "minijinja",
  "mockall",
  "nanoid",
+ "nix",
  "normpath",
  "octocrab",
  "opentelemetry",
@@ -824,6 +825,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tracing-subscriber",
  "url",
  "vergen",
+ "wait-timeout",
  "which",
 ]
 
@@ -2181,6 +2183,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "tempfile",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "nix"
+version = "0.29.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "71e2746dc3a24dd78b3cfcb7be93368c6de9963d30f43a6a73998a9cf4b17b46"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags 2.9.1",
+ "cfg-if",
+ "cfg_aliases",
+ "libc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "normalize-line-endings"
 version = "0.3.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index df17634..07bb8d4 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -80,8 +80,10 @@ which = { version = "8.0", features = ["regex"] }
 assert_cmd = "2.2.0"
 assert_fs = "1.1.3"
 escargot = "0.5.15"
+nix = { version = "0.29", features = ["signal", "process"] }
 predicates = "3.1.4"
 tempfile = "3.27"
+wait-timeout = "0.2"
 
 [build-dependencies]
 anyhow = "1.0.102"
diff --git a/src/bin/scope-intercept.rs b/src/bin/scope-intercept.rs
index db4663c..ad5140b 100644
--- a/src/bin/scope-intercept.rs
+++ b/src/bin/scope-intercept.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ use human_panic::setup_panic;
 use std::env;
 use std::io::Cursor;
 use std::sync::Arc;
+use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, Ordering};
 use tokio::io::BufReader;
+use tokio::signal::unix::{SignalKind, signal};
 use tracing::{Level, enabled, error, info, warn};
 
 /// A wrapper CLI that can be used to capture output from a program, check if there are known errors
@@ -76,6 +78,26 @@ async fn run_command(opts: Cli) -> anyhow::Result<i32> {
     let current_dir = std::env::current_dir()?;
     let path = env::var("PATH").unwrap_or_default();
 
+    // SIGINT/SIGTERM/SIGHUP are delivered to every member of our foreground
+    // process group, including the child, so its own cleanup traps run. We
+    // just need to keep ourselves alive long enough for the child to finish
+    // shutting down — otherwise our captured stdout/stderr pipes close and
+    // the child dies with SIGPIPE before its trap can complete.
+    let interrupted = Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(false));
+    for kind in [
+        SignalKind::interrupt(),
+        SignalKind::terminate(),
+        SignalKind::hangup(),
+    ] {
+        let mut stream = signal(kind)?;
+        let interrupted = interrupted.clone();
+        tokio::spawn(async move {
+            while stream.recv().await.is_some() {
+                interrupted.store(true, Ordering::SeqCst);
+            }
+        });
+    }
+
     let capture = OutputCapture::capture_output(CaptureOpts {
         working_dir: &current_dir,
         args: &command,
@@ -93,6 +115,13 @@ async fn run_command(opts: Cli) -> anyhow::Result<i32> {
         return Ok(exit_code);
     }
 
+    // The user explicitly asked to quit — don't surprise them with
+    // known-error prompts, retry, or bug-report offers. Just propagate the
+    // child's exit code (typically 130 for SIGINT, 143 for SIGTERM).
+    if interrupted.load(Ordering::SeqCst) {
+        return Ok(exit_code);
+    }
+
     error!(target: "user", "Command failed, checking for a known error");
     let found_config = opts.config_options.load_config().await.unwrap_or_else(|e| {
         error!(target: "user", "Unable to load configs from disk: {:?}", e);
diff --git a/tests/scope_intercept.rs b/tests/scope_intercept.rs
index 75a74db..46c63f3 100644
--- a/tests/scope_intercept.rs
+++ b/tests/scope_intercept.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 use assert_fs::fixture::{FileWriteStr, PathChild};
+use nix::sys::signal::{Signal, killpg};
+use nix::unistd::{Pid, setsid};
 use predicates::boolean::PredicateBooleanExt;
 use predicates::prelude::predicate;
+use std::os::unix::process::CommandExt;
+use std::process::Command as StdCommand;
+use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
+use wait_timeout::ChildExt;
 
 #[allow(dead_code)]
 mod common;
@@ -158,3 +164,97 @@ fn test_intercept_no_known_errors_match() {
 
     helper.clean_work_dir();
 }
+
+// When scope-intercept wraps a long-running interactive process (e.g.
+// used as a shebang on a server start script), Ctrl+C must let the
+// child run its own SIGINT trap and exit cleanly. Before this fix,
+// scope-intercept terminated immediately on SIGINT, closing the
+// captured stdout/stderr pipes and killing the child with SIGPIPE
+// before its trap could complete.
+#[test]
+fn test_intercept_forwards_sigint_and_waits_for_child_cleanup() {
+    let helper = ScopeTestHelper::new(
+        "test_intercept_forwards_sigint_and_waits_for_child_cleanup",
+        "empty",
+    );
+
+    let work_dir = helper.work_dir.path().to_path_buf();
+    let cleanup_marker = work_dir.join("cleanup.done");
+    let ready_marker = work_dir.join("ready");
+
+    helper
+        .work_dir
+        .child("trap.sh")
+        .write_str(
+            "#!/bin/bash\n\
+             trap 'echo trapped > cleanup.done; exit 130' INT\n\
+             touch ready\n\
+             # sleep in short increments so the trap fires promptly\n\
+             for _ in $(seq 1 30); do sleep 1; done\n",
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+
+    let intercept_bin = assert_cmd::cargo::cargo_bin("scope-intercept");
+    let mut command = StdCommand::new(intercept_bin);
+    command
+        .current_dir(&work_dir)
+        .env("NO_COLOR", "1")
+        .args(["--", "bash", "trap.sh"]);
+    // Put scope-intercept in its own session/process group so killpg below
+    // hits both it and the wrapped bash, mirroring how a terminal delivers
+    // Ctrl+C to the foreground process group.
+    //
+    // SAFETY: pre_exec runs the closure between fork and exec, so it must
+    // call only async-signal-safe functions. setsid(2) is on the POSIX
+    // async-signal-safe list and touches no shared state in the parent.
+    unsafe {
+        command.pre_exec(|| setsid().map(|_| ()).map_err(std::io::Error::from));
+    }
+    let mut child = command.spawn().expect("failed to spawn scope-intercept");
+
+    // Poll for the ready marker. There's no good cross-process "file
+    // appeared" primitive without bringing in inotify/kqueue, so we
+    // sleep between checks to avoid burning a core.
+    let deadline = Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(5);
+    while !ready_marker.exists() {
+        if Instant::now() > deadline {
+            child.kill().ok();
+            panic!(
+                "trap.sh never wrote ready marker; scope-intercept may not be running the script"
+            );
+        }
+        std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(50));
+    }
+
+    let pgid = Pid::from_raw(child.id() as i32);
+    killpg(pgid, Signal::SIGINT).expect("killpg(pgid, SIGINT) failed");
+
+    // If scope-intercept doesn't shut down within 10s, the bug is back:
+    // it's hanging instead of letting the child run its trap and
+    // propagating the exit.
+    let status = match child
+        .wait_timeout(Duration::from_secs(10))
+        .expect("wait_timeout failed")
+    {
+        Some(status) => status,
+        None => {
+            child.kill().ok();
+            panic!("scope-intercept did not exit within 10s after SIGINT");
+        }
+    };
+
+    assert!(
+        cleanup_marker.exists(),
+        "child SIGINT trap did not run — cleanup.done was never created"
+    );
+    let body = std::fs::read_to_string(&cleanup_marker).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(body.trim(), "trapped");
+
+    assert_eq!(
+        status.code(),
+        Some(130),
+        "scope-intercept should propagate the child's exit code (130 for SIGINT), got {status:?}"
+    );
+
+    helper.clean_work_dir();
+}