diff --git a/src/cli/index.ts b/src/cli/index.ts
index 26cfb8eea49..2a8921a2cdb 100644
--- a/src/cli/index.ts
+++ b/src/cli/index.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import { reportCliError } from './format'
 import { printHelp } from './help'
 import type { RuntimeClient } from './runtime-client'
 import { COMMAND_SPECS } from './specs'
+import { resolveOrchestrationCliExecutable } from './runtime/orchestration-recovery-command'
 
 export { COMMAND_SPECS } from './specs'
 export { buildCurrentWorktreeSelector, normalizeWorktreeSelector } from './selectors'
@@ -149,7 +150,9 @@ export async function main(
           undefined,
           undefined,
           remotePairingCode,
-          remoteEnvironment
+          remoteEnvironment,
+          resolveOrchestrationCliExecutable(),
+          argv
         )
         return client
       },
diff --git a/src/cli/orchestration-mutation-recovery.test.ts b/src/cli/orchestration-mutation-recovery.test.ts
index ca2b6cca0af..2acd3496241 100644
--- a/src/cli/orchestration-mutation-recovery.test.ts
+++ b/src/cli/orchestration-mutation-recovery.test.ts
@@ -36,9 +36,13 @@ describe('orchestration mutation recovery', () => {
         workerDeathInferred: false
       }
     })
-    expect(result.message.indexOf('worker-show')).toBeLessThan(
-      result.message.indexOf('exact original')
+    expect(result.message.indexOf('orca orchestration worker-show')).toBeLessThan(
+      result.message.indexOf('orca orchestration worker-start')
     )
+    expect((result.data as { nextSteps?: string[] }).nextSteps).toEqual([
+      'Run orca orchestration worker-show --dispatch dispatch_1 --json before retrying.',
+      'Run orca orchestration worker-start --task task_1 --retry-request request_1.'
+    ])
   })
 
   it('does not invent a dispatch for an old-client-shaped error', () => {
@@ -59,4 +63,52 @@ describe('orchestration mutation recovery', () => {
     expect((result.data as Record<string, unknown>).recovery).not.toHaveProperty('dispatchId')
     expect(result.message).not.toContain('worker death')
   })
+
+  it('renders the exact executable and safely quotes original arguments', () => {
+    const result = orchestrationMutationRecoveryError(
+      new RuntimeClientError('runtime_timeout', 'request timed out', {
+        orchestrationRequestId: 'request_3',
+        dispatchId: 'dispatch_3',
+        originalCommand: [
+          'orca-dev',
+          'orchestration',
+          'worker-start',
+          '--task',
+          'task 3',
+          '--comment',
+          'literal $(do-not-run)'
+        ]
+      })
+    ) as RuntimeClientError
+
+    expect((result.data as { nextSteps?: string[] }).nextSteps).toEqual([
+      'Run orca-dev orchestration worker-show --dispatch dispatch_3 --json before retrying.',
+      "Run orca-dev orchestration worker-start --task 'task 3' --comment 'literal $(do-not-run)' --retry-request request_3."
+    ])
+    expect(result.message).toContain("'literal $(do-not-run)'")
+  })
+
+  it('parses legacy command text without losing quoted arguments', () => {
+    const result = orchestrationMutationRecoveryError(
+      new RuntimeClientError('runtime_timeout', 'request timed out', {
+        orchestrationRequestId: 'request_4',
+        originalCommand:
+          'orca-ide orchestration worker-stop --dispatch dispatch_4 --comment "quoted value"'
+      })
+    ) as RuntimeClientError
+
+    expect(
+      (result.data as { recovery?: { retryCommand?: string[] } }).recovery?.retryCommand
+    ).toEqual([
+      'orca-ide',
+      'orchestration',
+      'worker-stop',
+      '--dispatch',
+      'dispatch_4',
+      '--comment',
+      'quoted value',
+      '--retry-request',
+      'request_4'
+    ])
+  })
 })
diff --git a/src/cli/orchestration-mutation-recovery.ts b/src/cli/orchestration-mutation-recovery.ts
index 62d6dd625c0..e3fae18aa8c 100644
--- a/src/cli/orchestration-mutation-recovery.ts
+++ b/src/cli/orchestration-mutation-recovery.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { RuntimeClientError } from './runtime-client'
+import { resolveOrchestrationCliExecutable } from './runtime/orchestration-recovery-command'
 
 export function orchestrationMutationRecoveryError(error: unknown): unknown {
   if (!(error instanceof RuntimeClientError) || !isUnknownMutationOutcomeCode(error.code)) {
@@ -14,8 +15,9 @@ export function orchestrationMutationRecoveryError(error: unknown): unknown {
   const retryCommand = originalCommand
     ? [...originalCommand, '--retry-request', requestId]
     : undefined
+  const executable = originalCommand?.[0] ?? resolveOrchestrationCliExecutable()
   const queryCommand = dispatchId
-    ? ['orca', 'orchestration', 'worker-show', '--dispatch', dispatchId, '--json']
+    ? [executable, 'orchestration', 'worker-show', '--dispatch', dispatchId, '--json']
     : undefined
   const recovery = {
     orchestrationRequestId: requestId,
@@ -27,10 +29,10 @@ export function orchestrationMutationRecoveryError(error: unknown): unknown {
     workerDeathInferred: false
   }
   const retryStep = retryCommand
-    ? `Then re-issue the exact original command with --retry-request ${requestId}.`
-    : `Recovery is blocked until the exact original command is available; if it is, re-issue it with --retry-request ${requestId}.`
+    ? `Run ${renderCommand(retryCommand)}.`
+    : 'Recovery is blocked until the exact original command is available; no retry command was emitted.'
   const nextSteps = queryCommand
-    ? [`Run ${queryCommand.join(' ')} before retrying.`, retryStep]
+    ? [`Run ${renderCommand(queryCommand)} before retrying.`, retryStep]
     : [retryStep]
   const message = [
     stripUnsafeRetryAdvice(error.message, requestId),
@@ -69,11 +71,75 @@ function commandParts(value: unknown): string[] | undefined {
     return [...value]
   }
   if (typeof value === 'string' && value.length > 0) {
-    return value.trim().split(/\s+/)
+    return parseCommandLine(value)
   }
   return undefined
 }
 
+function parseCommandLine(value: string): string[] | undefined {
+  const parts: string[] = []
+  let part = ''
+  let quote: "'" | '"' | undefined
+  let tokenStarted = false
+  for (let index = 0; index < value.length; index += 1) {
+    const character = value[index]
+    if (quote === "'") {
+      if (character === "'") {
+        quote = undefined
+      } else {
+        part += character
+      }
+      tokenStarted = true
+      continue
+    }
+    if (quote === '"') {
+      if (character === '"') {
+        quote = undefined
+      } else if (character === '\\' && ['"', '\\'].includes(value[index + 1] ?? '')) {
+        part += value[++index]
+      } else {
+        part += character
+      }
+      tokenStarted = true
+      continue
+    }
+    if (character === "'" || character === '"') {
+      quote = character
+      tokenStarted = true
+    } else if (/\s/.test(character)) {
+      if (tokenStarted) {
+        parts.push(part)
+        part = ''
+        tokenStarted = false
+      }
+    } else if (character === '\\' && [' ', '\\', "'", '"'].includes(value[index + 1] ?? '')) {
+      part += value[++index]
+      tokenStarted = true
+    } else {
+      part += character
+      tokenStarted = true
+    }
+  }
+  if (quote !== undefined) {
+    return undefined
+  }
+  if (tokenStarted) {
+    parts.push(part)
+  }
+  return parts.length > 0 ? parts : undefined
+}
+
+function renderCommand(command: readonly string[]): string {
+  return command.map(shellQuote).join(' ')
+}
+
+function shellQuote(value: string): string {
+  if (/^[A-Za-z0-9_./:@%+=,-]+$/.test(value)) {
+    return value
+  }
+  return `'${value.replaceAll("'", "'\\\"'\\\"'")}'`
+}
+
 function stripUnsafeRetryAdvice(message: string, requestId: string): string {
   return message
     .replace(' Restart Orca and try again.', '')
diff --git a/src/cli/runtime/client.ts b/src/cli/runtime/client.ts
index 8cd322462dd..183101f4ea1 100644
--- a/src/cli/runtime/client.ts
+++ b/src/cli/runtime/client.ts
@@ -20,7 +20,10 @@ import { RemoteRuntimeCompatGate } from './remote-runtime-compat-gate'
 import { createOrchestrationCompatibilityEnvelope } from './orchestration-compatibility-envelope'
 import { getTimeoutMsParam, isWaitingCheck } from './runtime-request-timeout'
 import { resolveWorkerStartClientTimeoutMs } from '../../shared/orchestration-timing-budgets'
-import { buildOrchestrationRecoveryCommand } from './orchestration-recovery-command'
+import {
+  buildOrchestrationRecoveryCommand,
+  resolveOrchestrationCliExecutable
+} from './orchestration-recovery-command'
 
 // Why: for long-poll methods the caller's method-level
 // `params.timeoutMs` is the inner waiter budget; we extend the client-side
@@ -42,6 +45,8 @@ export class RuntimeClient {
   private readonly requestTimeoutMs: number
   private readonly remotePairing: PairingOffer | null
   private readonly environmentSelector: string | null
+  private readonly cliExecutable: string
+  private readonly originalArgs: readonly string[] | undefined
   private readonly remoteCompat: RemoteRuntimeCompatGate
   private orchestrationContractCheck: Promise<void> | null = null
   private readonly orchestrationCompatibility = createOrchestrationCompatibilityEnvelope(
@@ -55,11 +60,15 @@ export class RuntimeClient {
     userDataPath = getDefaultUserDataPath(),
     requestTimeoutMs = 60_000,
     remotePairingCode = process.env.ORCA_PAIRING_CODE ?? process.env.ORCA_REMOTE_PAIRING ?? null,
-    environmentSelector = process.env.ORCA_ENVIRONMENT ?? null
+    environmentSelector = process.env.ORCA_ENVIRONMENT ?? null,
+    cliExecutable = resolveOrchestrationCliExecutable(),
+    originalArgs?: readonly string[]
   ) {
     this.userDataPath = userDataPath
     this.requestTimeoutMs = requestTimeoutMs
     this.environmentSelector = environmentSelector
+    this.cliExecutable = cliExecutable
+    this.originalArgs = originalArgs ? [...originalArgs] : undefined
     this.remotePairing = resolveRemotePairing(userDataPath, remotePairingCode, environmentSelector)
     this.remoteCompat = new RemoteRuntimeCompatGate(userDataPath, environmentSelector)
   }
@@ -82,7 +91,7 @@ export class RuntimeClient {
       ? (options?.orchestrationRequestId ?? randomUUID())
       : undefined
     const originalCommand = orchestrationMutation
-      ? buildOrchestrationRecoveryCommand(method, params)
+      ? buildOrchestrationRecoveryCommand(method, params, this.cliExecutable, this.originalArgs)
       : undefined
     const compatibilityEnvelope = method.startsWith('orchestration.')
       ? {
@@ -272,10 +281,7 @@ function attachMutationRecovery(
     {
       ...(error.data && typeof error.data === 'object' ? error.data : {}),
       orchestrationRequestId: requestId,
-      ...(originalCommand &&
-      !(error.data && typeof error.data === 'object' && 'originalCommand' in error.data)
-        ? { originalCommand }
-        : {})
+      ...(originalCommand ? { originalCommand } : {})
     }
   )
 }
diff --git a/src/cli/runtime/orchestration-recovery-command.test.ts b/src/cli/runtime/orchestration-recovery-command.test.ts
index 134ab618bd8..62adde1ebd6 100644
--- a/src/cli/runtime/orchestration-recovery-command.test.ts
+++ b/src/cli/runtime/orchestration-recovery-command.test.ts
@@ -1,16 +1,37 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
-import { buildOrchestrationRecoveryCommand } from './orchestration-recovery-command'
+import {
+  buildOrchestrationRecoveryCommand,
+  resolveOrchestrationCliExecutable
+} from './orchestration-recovery-command'
 
 describe('orchestration recovery command identity', () => {
+  it('resolves dev, packaged, and execution-host CLI names without rewriting them', () => {
+    expect(resolveOrchestrationCliExecutable({ ORCA_CLI_COMMAND: 'orca-dev' }, 'darwin')).toBe(
+      'orca-dev'
+    )
+    expect(resolveOrchestrationCliExecutable({ ORCA_CLI_COMMAND: 'orca-ide' }, 'win32')).toBe(
+      'orca-ide'
+    )
+    expect(resolveOrchestrationCliExecutable({ ORCA_DEV_REPO_ROOT: '/repo' }, 'darwin')).toBe(
+      'orca-dev'
+    )
+    expect(resolveOrchestrationCliExecutable({}, 'linux')).toBe('orca-ide')
+    expect(resolveOrchestrationCliExecutable({}, 'darwin')).toBe('orca')
+  })
+
   it('reconstructs the keyed worker-start command from its RPC params', () => {
     expect(
-      buildOrchestrationRecoveryCommand('orchestration.workerStart', {
-        task: 'task_1',
-        on: 'windows',
-        worktree: 'new-top-level',
-        timeoutMs: 90_000,
-        devMode: false
-      })
+      buildOrchestrationRecoveryCommand(
+        'orchestration.workerStart',
+        {
+          task: 'task_1',
+          on: 'windows',
+          worktree: 'new-top-level',
+          timeoutMs: 90_000,
+          devMode: false
+        },
+        'orca'
+      )
     ).toEqual([
       'orca',
       'orchestration',
@@ -26,6 +47,42 @@ describe('orchestration recovery command identity', () => {
     ])
   })
 
+  it('preserves the selected executable and raw command arguments', () => {
+    expect(
+      buildOrchestrationRecoveryCommand(
+        'orchestration.workerStart',
+        { task: 'task_1' },
+        'orca-dev',
+        [
+          'orchestration',
+          'worker-start',
+          '--task',
+          'task_1',
+          '--comment',
+          'literal $(do-not-run) "quoted"',
+          '--json'
+        ]
+      )
+    ).toEqual([
+      'orca-dev',
+      'orchestration',
+      'worker-start',
+      '--task',
+      'task_1',
+      '--comment',
+      'literal $(do-not-run) "quoted"',
+      '--json'
+    ])
+  })
+
+  it('supports the explicit executable-first form', () => {
+    expect(
+      buildOrchestrationRecoveryCommand('orca-ide', 'orchestration.workerStop', {
+        dispatch: 'dispatch_1'
+      })
+    ).toEqual(['orca-ide', 'orchestration', 'worker-stop', '--dispatch', 'dispatch_1'])
+  })
+
   it('does not fabricate identity for unsupported mutations or malformed params', () => {
     expect(buildOrchestrationRecoveryCommand('orchestration.send', {})).toBeUndefined()
     expect(buildOrchestrationRecoveryCommand('orchestration.workerStart', null)).toBeUndefined()
diff --git a/src/cli/runtime/orchestration-recovery-command.ts b/src/cli/runtime/orchestration-recovery-command.ts
index 5cf6ecb054e..6ddb893de8b 100644
--- a/src/cli/runtime/orchestration-recovery-command.ts
+++ b/src/cli/runtime/orchestration-recovery-command.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,43 @@
+export function resolveOrchestrationCliExecutable(
+  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv = process.env,
+  platform: NodeJS.Platform = process.platform
+): string {
+  const configured = env.ORCA_CLI_COMMAND?.trim()
+  if (configured) {
+    return configured
+  }
+  if (env.ORCA_DEV_REPO_ROOT) {
+    return 'orca-dev'
+  }
+  return platform === 'linux' ? 'orca-ide' : 'orca'
+}
+
 export function buildOrchestrationRecoveryCommand(
   method: string,
-  params: unknown
+  params: unknown,
+  executable?: string,
+  originalArgs?: readonly string[]
+): string[] | undefined
+export function buildOrchestrationRecoveryCommand(
+  executable: string,
+  method: string,
+  params: unknown,
+  originalArgs?: readonly string[]
+): string[] | undefined
+export function buildOrchestrationRecoveryCommand(
+  methodOrExecutable: string,
+  paramsOrMethod: unknown,
+  executableOrParams?: string | unknown,
+  originalArgs?: readonly string[]
 ): string[] | undefined {
+  const legacyOrder = typeof paramsOrMethod === 'string' && executableOrParams !== undefined
+  const method = (legacyOrder ? paramsOrMethod : methodOrExecutable) as string
+  const params = legacyOrder ? executableOrParams : paramsOrMethod
+  const executable = legacyOrder
+    ? methodOrExecutable
+    : typeof executableOrParams === 'string'
+      ? executableOrParams
+      : resolveOrchestrationCliExecutable()
   const command =
     method === 'orchestration.workerStart'
       ? 'worker-start'
@@ -20,7 +56,10 @@ export function buildOrchestrationRecoveryCommand(
   if (typeof record[requiredKey] !== 'string' || record[requiredKey].length === 0) {
     return undefined
   }
-  const args = ['orca', 'orchestration', command]
+  if (originalArgs && originalArgs.length > 0) {
+    return [executable, ...withoutRetryRequest(originalArgs)]
+  }
+  const args = [executable, 'orchestration', command]
   for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(record)) {
     if (value === undefined || value === null || value === false) {
       continue
@@ -34,3 +73,19 @@ export function buildOrchestrationRecoveryCommand(
   }
   return args
 }
+
+function withoutRetryRequest(args: readonly string[]): string[] {
+  const result: string[] = []
+  for (let index = 0; index < args.length; index += 1) {
+    const arg = args[index]
+    if (arg === '--retry-request') {
+      index += 1
+      continue
+    }
+    if (arg.startsWith('--retry-request=')) {
+      continue
+    }
+    result.push(arg)
+  }
+  return result
+}