diff --git a/src/shared/git-credential-guard-provenance.test.ts b/src/shared/git-credential-guard-provenance.test.ts
index 11ee6c35d14..8b288d11d09 100644
--- a/src/shared/git-credential-guard-provenance.test.ts
+++ b/src/shared/git-credential-guard-provenance.test.ts
@@ -98,6 +98,26 @@ describe('restoreUnguardedGitCredentialEnv marker handling', () => {
     expect(env.GIT_CONFIG_KEY_1).toBe('credential.guiPrompt')
   })
 
+  // The guard forwards only its scalars and the indexed-config protocol into
+  // WSLENV -- never the askpass names. Removing a name the guard never added
+  // strips the user's own WSL forwarding, which is the leak's mirror image.
+  it('keeps a WSLENV name the guard never forwards, even when it appeared after the guard', () => {
+    const saved = takeGitCredentialGuardEnv()
+    try {
+      const env: Record<string, string> = { WSLENV: 'MY_VAR/u' }
+      const pre = captureGitCredentialGuardPreGuardState(env)
+      Object.assign(env, gitCredentialPromptGuardEnv(env, 'win32') as Record<string, string>)
+      recordGitCredentialGuardProvenance(env, pre, { appendedConfig: true, forwardToWsl: true })
+      // The user forwards their own askpass into WSL from inside the guarded pane.
+      env.WSLENV = `${env.WSLENV}:GIT_ASKPASS/p`
+
+      expect(restoreUnguardedGitCredentialEnv(env)).toBe(true)
+      expect(env.WSLENV).toBe('MY_VAR/u:GIT_ASKPASS/p')
+    } finally {
+      restoreGitCredentialGuardEnv(saved)
+    }
+  })
+
   // A marker that names no config base did not append config, so nothing indexed
   // in this environment is Orca's — including a pair that looks exactly like ours.
   it('never removes indexed config when the marker claims no config base', () => {
diff --git a/src/shared/git-credential-guard-provenance.ts b/src/shared/git-credential-guard-provenance.ts
index 71537f40b38..1b61e5fb85d 100644
--- a/src/shared/git-credential-guard-provenance.ts
+++ b/src/shared/git-credential-guard-provenance.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import {
   GIT_CREDENTIAL_GUARD_CONFIG_ENTRIES,
+  GIT_CREDENTIAL_GUARD_WSLENV_SCALAR_KEYS,
   readValidGitConfigEnvCount
 } from './git-credential-prompt-env'
 import { addWslEnvKeys } from './wsl-env'
@@ -187,9 +188,11 @@ function restoreWslEnv(env: Record<string, string>, state: RestoreState): void {
       if (priorNames.has(name)) {
         return true
       }
+      // Why: the guard never forwards the askpass names, so a WSLENV token it
+      // never added is the user's even when it postdates the pre-guard snapshot.
       return !(
         name === TERMINAL_GIT_CREDENTIAL_GUARD_RESTORE_ENV ||
-        (SCALAR_KEYS as readonly string[]).includes(name) ||
+        (GIT_CREDENTIAL_GUARD_WSLENV_SCALAR_KEYS as readonly string[]).includes(name) ||
         GIT_CONFIG_PROTOCOL_KEY_RE.test(name)
       )
     })
diff --git a/src/shared/git-credential-prompt-env.ts b/src/shared/git-credential-prompt-env.ts
index f2f266cd1e6..ac3e9eac8c4 100644
--- a/src/shared/git-credential-prompt-env.ts
+++ b/src/shared/git-credential-prompt-env.ts
@@ -89,6 +89,15 @@ export const GIT_CREDENTIAL_GUARD_CONFIG_ENTRIES = [
   ['credential.guiPrompt', 'false']
 ] as const satisfies readonly (readonly [key: string, value: string])[]
 
+/**
+ * The scalar guard variables the guard forwards into WSL. Provenance reads it so
+ * restoration removes exactly the names the guard adds to WSLENV and no others.
+ */
+export const GIT_CREDENTIAL_GUARD_WSLENV_SCALAR_KEYS = [
+  'GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT',
+  'GCM_INTERACTIVE'
+] as const
+
 /**
  * Disable interactive Git credential UI while preserving cached credentials
  * and caller-provided askpass programs.
@@ -115,7 +124,7 @@ export function gitCredentialPromptGuardEnv(
       readValidGitConfigEnvCount(next) === null
         ? []
         : Object.keys(next).filter((key) => GIT_CONFIG_WSLENV_KEY_RE.test(key))
-    addWslEnvKeys(next, ['GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT', 'GCM_INTERACTIVE', ...configKeys])
+    addWslEnvKeys(next, [...GIT_CREDENTIAL_GUARD_WSLENV_SCALAR_KEYS, ...configKeys])
   }
   return next
 }