diff --git a/packages/utils/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/utils/CHANGELOG.md
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@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 - Fixed postmortem signal and fatal shutdown exits being intercepted by temporary `process.exit` guards during extension startup ([#6488](https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi/issues/6488)).
 - Corrected Windows shell resolution errors to identify the active global, project, overlay, or runtime source for `shellPath` instead of directing every user to the retired `settings.json` file ([#6579](https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi/issues/6579)).
 - Contained timed-out child lifecycle rejections so `ptree` callers cannot leak an unhandled `TimeoutError` after settling ([#6635](https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi/issues/6635)).
+- Fixed an invalid configured `shellPath` being silently masked whenever an earlier caller had already resolved a shell in the same process; the guidance error now surfaces regardless of cache state.
 
 ## [17.0.9] - 2026-07-23