diff --git a/scripts/ab-corpus/__tests__/build-prompt.test.ts b/scripts/ab-corpus/__tests__/build-prompt.test.ts
index f6171648f..1c1ffcfa0 100644
--- a/scripts/ab-corpus/__tests__/build-prompt.test.ts
+++ b/scripts/ab-corpus/__tests__/build-prompt.test.ts
@@ -176,4 +176,24 @@ describe('buildSystemPrompt', () => {
       expect(full - filtered).toBeGreaterThan(500);
     }
   });
+
+  it('T + category preserves Markdown structure across adjacent kept blocks (no fence-heading collision)', () => {
+    // Earlier regex consumed surrounding whitespace too greedily, joining
+    // body1's closing ``` directly to body2's heading like ```### Audit...
+    // and breaking both the code fence and the heading rendering. Codex
+    // stop-time review caught it. Guard against re-introducing the
+    // collision by asserting fence-followed-by-heading never appears
+    // anywhere in the output for any (category, difficulty) combo where
+    // the filter could fire.
+    for (const category of ['mobile', 'dashboard', 'landing'] as const) {
+      for (const difficulty of ['obvious', 'composite'] as const) {
+        const built = buildSystemPrompt('T', { difficulty, category });
+        // Closing fence directly followed by a level-3 heading on the
+        // same line is the corruption signature: ``` and ### must be
+        // separated by at least a newline. The buggy regex produced
+        // `\`\`\`### Audit ...` with no separator at all.
+        expect(built.system).not.toMatch(/```###/);
+      }
+    }
+  });
 });
diff --git a/scripts/ab-corpus/build-prompt.ts b/scripts/ab-corpus/build-prompt.ts
index 2a8a037f8..e720fd5b5 100644
--- a/scripts/ab-corpus/build-prompt.ts
+++ b/scripts/ab-corpus/build-prompt.ts
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ export interface BuildPromptOpts {
  * multi-file splits to maintain per domain) and keeps the diff
  * surgical — adding a tag is two HTML comments, no structural move.
  *
- * Block syntax:
+ * Block syntax (each marker on its own line):
  *
  *   <!-- @domain:mobile -->
  *   ... mobile-only content ...
@@ -118,10 +118,17 @@ export interface BuildPromptOpts {
  * and a block matches if `keep` appears in the list. This is the
  * common case for tools like calendar_grid that legitimately span
  * domains.
+ *
+ * Whitespace contract: the regex consumes ONLY the single newlines
+ * adjoining each marker, not surrounding blank lines. That preserves
+ * the blank-line separator between adjacent kept blocks — without
+ * this, the closing ` ``` ` of one recipe would butt up against the
+ * `### ` heading of the next, breaking markdown structure (caught
+ * by Codex stop-time review).
  */
 function stripNonMatchingDomains(text: string, keep: string): string {
   return text.replace(
-    /<!-- @domain:([a-z,\s]+) -->\s*([\s\S]*?)\s*<!-- \/@domain -->\s*/g,
+    /<!-- @domain:([a-z,\s]+) -->\n([\s\S]*?)\n<!-- \/@domain -->/g,
     (_, tags: string, body: string) => {
       const allowed = tags.split(',').map((t) => t.trim());
       return allowed.includes(keep) ? body : '';