diff --git a/goals/G-015-script-subcommand-piped-stdin.md b/goals/G-015-script-subcommand-piped-stdin.md
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@@ -41,6 +41,22 @@ punk_main.tcl's `punk` subcommand case).
 
 ## Approach
 
+- **Decided 2026-07-07: a leaner dedicated app package** (not a mode of
+  app-punkshell). Rationale: the acceptance is defined by absence (no
+  shellfilter stacks, no logging side effects, no interactive fallback) which
+  a package that never loads that machinery guarantees by construction;
+  app-punkshell's load-time behaviour (shellfilter stacks with syslog/file
+  targets writing punkshell_out.log/punkshell_err.log into the caller's cwd,
+  logging threads) is wrong for one-shot calls; and isolation caps the blast
+  radius of shell-path machinery (the 2026-07-06 silent-stdout failure lived
+  in exactly the code reuse would couple to). Duplication mitigation: the
+  substantive shared piece - the definition of the default punk shell
+  module/alias environment - is factored into a shared module-level definition
+  (punk::aliascore as the seed) consumed by both app packages; launcher
+  control flow is deliberately not shared (share definitions via modules, not
+  control flow). This package shape also previews the G-031 registration
+  model (subcommand -> small handler package), as app-tomlish demonstrated.
+
 - `<punkexe> script <file> [<args>...]` - execute the file with conventional
   ::argv0/::argv semantics, exit with its status.
 - `... | <punkexe> script` - read the whole of stdin as the script when no