diff --git a/src/shared/shipit-liveness.test.ts b/src/shared/shipit-liveness.test.ts
index 57aeb72086f..c5703c73161 100644
--- a/src/shared/shipit-liveness.test.ts
+++ b/src/shared/shipit-liveness.test.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import { getShipItLivenessForBundle } from './shipit-liveness'
 
 const BUNDLE = '/Applications/Orca.app'
 const SHIPIT = `${BUNDLE}/Contents/Frameworks/Squirrel.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ShipIt`
+const SHIPIT_FRAMEWORK_ROOT = `${BUNDLE}/Contents/Frameworks/Squirrel.framework/Resources/ShipIt`
 
 const psOutput = (...lines: string[]): void => {
   runProcessSyncMock.mockReturnValue({
@@ -37,6 +38,11 @@ describe('isShipItRunningForBundle', () => {
     expect(getShipItLivenessForBundle(BUNDLE)).toBe('live')
   })
 
+  it('matches the framework-root resource path used by production ShipIt launches', () => {
+    psOutput(`${SHIPIT_FRAMEWORK_ROOT} com.stablyai.orca.ShipIt /tmp/state.plist`)
+    expect(getShipItLivenessForBundle(BUNDLE)).toBe('live')
+  })
+
   it('ignores a process that merely mentions the path', () => {
     // A substring match would count a grep, an editor, or this probe's own shell.
     psOutput(`/usr/bin/grep -r ${SHIPIT} /Users/someone/notes`)
diff --git a/src/shared/shipit-liveness.ts b/src/shared/shipit-liveness.ts
index c0c4cefe528..7a9134be3ff 100644
--- a/src/shared/shipit-liveness.ts
+++ b/src/shared/shipit-liveness.ts
@@ -27,16 +27,22 @@ export function getShipItLivenessForBundle(bundlePath: string): ShipItLiveness {
   // Why the full path and not a bare name: a `ps` match on any command line *mentioning* the
   // bundle would count unrelated processes (a grep, an editor, this very check's own shell) and
   // hold the gate closed forever.
-  const shipItPath = join(
-    resolvedBundlePath,
-    'Contents',
-    'Frameworks',
-    'Squirrel.framework',
-    'Versions',
-    'A',
-    'Resources',
-    'ShipIt'
-  )
+  // Squirrel.Mac has shipped both the framework's versioned resource path and its
+  // framework-root symlink as argv[0] across releases. Keep both explicit so we
+  // recognize the real installer without broadening the process-table match.
+  const shipItPaths = [
+    join(
+      resolvedBundlePath,
+      'Contents',
+      'Frameworks',
+      'Squirrel.framework',
+      'Versions',
+      'A',
+      'Resources',
+      'ShipIt'
+    ),
+    join(resolvedBundlePath, 'Contents', 'Frameworks', 'Squirrel.framework', 'Resources', 'ShipIt')
+  ]
   try {
     const result = runProcessSync({
       program: '/bin/ps',
@@ -51,11 +57,13 @@ export function getShipItLivenessForBundle(bundlePath: string): ShipItLiveness {
     // be a separator stops `.../ShipIt-other` from counting as `.../ShipIt`.
     const running = result.stdout.split('\n').some((line) => {
       const argv0Line = line.trimStart()
-      if (!argv0Line.startsWith(shipItPath)) {
-        return false
-      }
-      const next = argv0Line.charAt(shipItPath.length)
-      return next === '' || next === ' '
+      return shipItPaths.some((shipItPath) => {
+        if (!argv0Line.startsWith(shipItPath)) {
+          return false
+        }
+        const next = argv0Line.charAt(shipItPath.length)
+        return next === '' || next === ' '
+      })
     })
     return running ? 'live' : 'exited'
   } catch {