diff --git a/lib/src/lib/terminal-state-store.test.ts b/lib/src/lib/terminal-state-store.test.ts
index ca9bb1ec..ede141fc 100644
--- a/lib/src/lib/terminal-state-store.test.ts
+++ b/lib/src/lib/terminal-state-store.test.ts
@@ -218,6 +218,27 @@ describe('terminal command input via rendered buffer', () => {
     expect(getTerminalPaneState('pane').currentCommand?.rawCommandLine).toBe('pnpm build');
   });
 
+  it('detects a cmd.exe prompt (terminator with no trailing space) and titles the command', () => {
+    recordTerminalOutput('pane', 'C:\\Users\\ntwigg>');
+    recordTerminalUserInput('pane', 'claude\r', lineReader('C:\\Users\\ntwigg>claude'));
+
+    expect(getTerminalPaneState('pane').currentCommand?.rawCommandLine).toBe('claude');
+  });
+
+  it('detects a Git Bash two-line prompt (bare `$ ` under a context line)', () => {
+    recordTerminalOutput('pane', 'ntwigg@PC MINGW64 /c/proj (main)\r\n$ ');
+    recordTerminalUserInput('pane', 'claude\r', lineReader('$ claude'));
+
+    expect(getTerminalPaneState('pane').currentCommand?.rawCommandLine).toBe('claude');
+  });
+
+  it('does not treat a bare `$ ` line without preceding context as a prompt', () => {
+    recordTerminalOutput('pane', 'just some output\r\n$ ');
+    recordTerminalUserInput('pane', 'claude\r', lineReader('$ claude'));
+
+    expect(getTerminalPaneState('pane').currentCommand).toBeNull();
+  });
+
   it('does not seed a shape when scrollback ends mid-output', () => {
     seedPromptShapeFromScrollback('pane', 'building ~/app...\r\n[1234/5678] compiling');
     recordTerminalUserInput('pane', 'pnpm build\r', lineReader(`${PROMPT}pnpm build`));
diff --git a/lib/src/lib/terminal-state-store.ts b/lib/src/lib/terminal-state-store.ts
index b060f484..d5fa7822 100644
--- a/lib/src/lib/terminal-state-store.ts
+++ b/lib/src/lib/terminal-state-store.ts
@@ -274,18 +274,44 @@ function detectReturnedShellPrompt(output: string): string | null {
   // prompt may be the whole buffer with no leading newline, so accept that too.
   const newlineIndex = text.lastIndexOf('\n');
   const lastLine = (newlineIndex === -1 ? text : text.slice(newlineIndex + 1)).trimStart();
-  if (lastLine.length < 3 || lastLine.length > 200) return null;
+  if (lastLine.length > 200) return null;
   // PowerShell `PS C:\path>` (with optional trailing space).
   if (/^PS\s+\S.*>\s?$/.test(lastLine)) return lastLine;
+  // cmd.exe `C:\path>` — a drive-letter path ending in `>`, and (unlike every
+  // other shell here) with no trailing space.
+  if (/^[A-Za-z]:\\.*>\s?$/.test(lastLine)) return lastLine;
   // Arrow-style prompts (oh-my-zsh, starship, fish defaults).
   if (/^[➜❯λ]\s+\S/.test(lastLine) && lastLine.endsWith(' ')) return lastLine;
-  // Generic shell prompts: require a path/user context signal AND a trailing
-  // prompt char + space. The context check rejects lines like "step 1: done"
-  // or "loading 95% complete" that happen to end in a punctuation mark.
+  // Multi-line prompts whose final line is just the terminator (e.g. Git Bash's
+  // `$ ` beneath a `user@host MINGW64 /path` line). Accept only when the
+  // preceding non-blank line carries prompt context, so stray output ending in
+  // `$ ` doesn't match.
+  if (/^[$#%]\s*$/.test(lastLine)) {
+    return precedingLineHasPromptContext(text, newlineIndex) ? lastLine : null;
+  }
+  // Generic single-line prompts: require a path/user context signal AND a
+  // trailing prompt char + space. The context check rejects lines like
+  // "step 1: done" or "loading 95% complete".
+  if (lastLine.length < 3) return null;
   if (!/[\/~@:]/.test(lastLine)) return null;
   return /[$#%>]\s$/.test(lastLine) ? lastLine : null;
 }
 
+// Whether the non-blank line preceding `lastNewlineIndex` looks like prompt
+// context (carries a `/`, `~`, `@`, or `:`). Used to validate a bare-terminator
+// final line in a multi-line prompt.
+function precedingLineHasPromptContext(text: string, lastNewlineIndex: number): boolean {
+  let end = lastNewlineIndex;
+  while (end > 0) {
+    const start = text.lastIndexOf('\n', end - 1);
+    const line = text.slice(start + 1, end).trim();
+    if (line) return /[\/~@:]/.test(line);
+    if (start < 0) break;
+    end = start;
+  }
+  return false;
+}
+
 function stripAltScreenSpans(input: string): string {
   // Drop content between alt-screen enter (`\x1b[?1049h`) and exit (`\x1b[?1049l`).
   // Fullscreen TUIs (vim, lazygit, less) render into the alt buffer, which is
diff --git a/lib/src/lib/terminal-state.test.ts b/lib/src/lib/terminal-state.test.ts
index b2f773c0..eed18974 100644
--- a/lib/src/lib/terminal-state.test.ts
+++ b/lib/src/lib/terminal-state.test.ts
@@ -264,6 +264,39 @@ describe('header and grouping derivation', () => {
     });
   });
 
+  it('keeps the command when ConPTY broadcasts a child process path as the title', () => {
+    // pnpm's script shell on Windows is cmd.exe, whose console title (its own
+    // image path) ConPTY relays as OSC 0 — no command meaning, so the detected
+    // command must stand.
+    const pane = reduceTerminalState(
+      runningPane('/repo/app', 'pnpm dev:website'),
+      { type: 'title', title: { title: 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe', source: 'osc0', updatedAt: 2 } },
+    );
+
+    expect(deriveHeader(pane, [pane])).toEqual({
+      primary: 'pnpm dev:website',
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('strips cmd.exe\'s interpreter prefix, leaving the command', () => {
+    // cmd.exe sets its console title to "<path>\cmd.exe - <command>"; show the command.
+    const pane = reduceTerminalState(
+      runningPane('/repo/app', 'pnpm dev:website'),
+      { type: 'title', title: { title: 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe - pnpm dev:website', source: 'osc0', updatedAt: 2 } },
+    );
+
+    expect(deriveHeader(pane, [pane])).toEqual({ primary: 'pnpm dev:website' });
+  });
+
+  it('keeps the command when the title is a bare shell name', () => {
+    const pane = reduceTerminalState(
+      runningPane('/repo/app', 'pnpm dev:website'),
+      { type: 'title', title: { title: 'pwsh', source: 'osc0', updatedAt: 2 } },
+    );
+
+    expect(deriveHeader(pane, [pane])).toEqual({ primary: 'pnpm dev:website' });
+  });
+
   it('ignores stale shell titles from before a command started', () => {
     const pane = reduceTerminalState(
       runningPane('/repo/app', 'lazygit'),
diff --git a/lib/src/lib/terminal-state.ts b/lib/src/lib/terminal-state.ts
index b0c44c6f..abfea280 100644
--- a/lib/src/lib/terminal-state.ts
+++ b/lib/src/lib/terminal-state.ts
@@ -806,14 +806,50 @@ function idleLabel(pane: TerminalPaneState): string {
 
 const HEADER_APP_TITLE_SOURCES: TerminalTitleSource[] = ['osc0', 'osc2', 'osc9'];
 
+// Under Windows ConPTY an OSC 0/2 title is frequently just the child process's
+// image path (e.g. `C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe`, which pnpm's script shell
+// broadcasts) rather than a name the app meaningfully chose — ConPTY relays the
+// console title for every process whether or not it set one. A bare executable
+// path or shell name carries no command information, so we don't let it override
+// the command we detected. Descriptive titles (anything carrying arguments or
+// text, e.g. `lazygit: dormouse` or `README.md - VIM`) are kept.
+const GENERIC_PROCESS_TITLE_NAMES = new Set([
+  'cmd', 'powershell', 'pwsh', 'bash', 'sh', 'zsh', 'fish', 'dash', 'ksh', 'csh', 'tcsh', 'wsl', 'conhost',
+]);
+
+function isGenericProcessTitle(title: string): boolean {
+  const trimmed = title.trim();
+  if (!trimmed) return false;
+  const basename = trimmed.split(/[\\/]/).pop() ?? trimmed;
+  if (/\s/.test(basename)) return false; // carries arguments/description → meaningful
+  if (/\.(?:exe|com|bat|cmd|ps1)$/i.test(basename)) return true; // bare executable path
+  return GENERIC_PROCESS_TITLE_NAMES.has(basename.toLowerCase()); // bare shell/interpreter name
+}
+
+// Reduce a raw OSC title to its meaningful part, or null when there's nothing
+// useful. Drops bare interpreter paths/names, and strips cmd.exe's
+// `<path>\cmd.exe - <command>` prefix (cmd announces its own path alongside the
+// command it's running) so the command shows rather than the interpreter path.
+function meaningfulTerminalTitle(title: string): string | null {
+  const trimmed = title.trim();
+  if (!trimmed || isGenericProcessTitle(trimmed)) return null;
+  const separator = trimmed.indexOf(' - ');
+  if (separator > 0 && isGenericProcessTitle(trimmed.slice(0, separator))) {
+    const rest = trimmed.slice(separator + 3).trim();
+    return rest.length > 0 ? rest : null;
+  }
+  return trimmed;
+}
+
 function terminalTitleForCommand(pane: TerminalPaneState, command: CommandRun): string | null {
   // For finished commands the live `titleCandidates` map may have been overwritten by post-finish
   // events (e.g. the shell resetting OSC 0 to `zsh`), so trust the snapshot taken at commandFinish.
   if (command.finishedAt !== undefined && command.finalTerminalTitle) {
-    const snapshot = command.finalTerminalTitle.title.trim();
+    const snapshot = meaningfulTerminalTitle(command.finalTerminalTitle.title);
     if (snapshot) return snapshot;
   }
-  return findInRunTerminalTitle(pane, command)?.title.trim() || null;
+  const inRun = findInRunTerminalTitle(pane, command)?.title;
+  return inRun ? meaningfulTerminalTitle(inRun) : null;
 }
 
 function snapshotInRunTerminalTitle(