diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ffae234..8273924 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ Notable changes to the Swarm plugin. Format follows
 ## [Unreleased]
 
 ### Fixed
+- The shared test environment now supplies its fixture Git identity to stub
+  subprocesses too, avoiding hostname-based identity detection during commits
+  and reflog writes when user/system Git configuration is disabled (#11).
 - Harvest now reconciles the completed slot's plugin-reported state before
   automatic archive. On Herdr's pane-backed path, a successful merge could
   previously leave the slot marked working and unnecessarily block cleanup.
diff --git a/tests/harness.mjs b/tests/harness.mjs
index f21571c..73286b8 100644
--- a/tests/harness.mjs
+++ b/tests/harness.mjs
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ export const repoRoot = path.resolve(
 // Scripts under test make real commits (WIP, snapshot, merge, revert); the
 // harness env has GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL=/dev/null, so identity must ride in
 // explicitly or every commit-producing path dies on "unable to auto-detect
-// email". Spread into freshEnv overrides by tests that shell out to git.
+// email". Shared by git() and freshEnv(), including Git children of stubs.
 export const gitIdent = {
 	GIT_AUTHOR_NAME: "hs-test",
 	GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL: "hs@test.invalid",
@@ -243,6 +243,7 @@ export function createHarness() {
 			// commit signing from ~/.gitconfig would hang a headless run.
 			GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL: "/dev/null",
 			GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM: "/dev/null",
+			...gitIdent,
 			STUB_LOG: logFile,
 			HERDR_BIN_PATH: path.join(stubDir, "herdr"),
 			HERDR_PLUGIN_ROOT: repoRoot,
diff --git a/tests/harness.test.mjs b/tests/harness.test.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6642094
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/harness.test.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+import { test } from "node:test";
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
+import fs from "node:fs";
+import path from "node:path";
+import { gitIdent, mkdtemp } from "./harness.mjs";
+
+test("freshEnv supplies deterministic identity to real Git descendants despite poisoned parent settings", () => {
+	const config = path.join(mkdtemp("hs-identity-"), "gitconfig");
+	fs.writeFileSync(config, "[user]\nname = Poisoned User\nemail = poisoned@example.invalid\n");
+	const stub = [
+		"set -e",
+		'git -C "$TEST_REPO" commit -q --allow-empty -m child',
+		'git -C "$TEST_REPO" worktree add -q -b identity-child "$TEST_WORKTREE"',
+		'git -C "$TEST_REPO" log -1 --format="%an <%ae>|%cn <%ce>"',
+		'git -C "$TEST_REPO" reflog show identity-child --format="%gn <%ge>"',
+	].join("\n");
+	const result = spawnSync(process.execPath, ["--input-type=module", "-e", `
+		import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+		import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
+		import path from "node:path";
+		import { createHarness, mkdtemp } from ${JSON.stringify(new URL("./harness.mjs", import.meta.url).href)};
+		const h = createHarness();
+		const repo = h.makeRepo();
+		// Fail deterministically when identity is missing, without provoking DNS.
+		h.git(repo, "config", "user.useConfigOnly", "true");
+		h.writeStub("herdr", ${JSON.stringify(stub)});
+		const env = h.freshEnv({
+			TEST_REPO: repo,
+			TEST_WORKTREE: path.join(mkdtemp("hs-identity-wt-"), "slot"),
+		});
+		const child = spawnSync(env.HERDR_BIN_PATH, [], { env, encoding: "utf8", timeout: 10_000 });
+		assert.equal(child.status, 0, child.stderr || child.error?.message);
+		process.stdout.write(child.stdout);
+	`], {
+		encoding: "utf8",
+		timeout: 20_000,
+		env: {
+			...process.env,
+			GIT_AUTHOR_NAME: "Poisoned Author",
+			GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL: "author@example.invalid",
+			GIT_COMMITTER_NAME: "Poisoned Committer",
+			GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL: "committer@example.invalid",
+			GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL: config,
+			GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM: config,
+			GIT_CONFIG_COUNT: "1",
+			GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0: "user.email",
+			GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0: "injected@example.invalid",
+		},
+	});
+	assert.equal(result.status, 0, result.stderr || result.error?.message);
+	const author = `${gitIdent.GIT_AUTHOR_NAME} <${gitIdent.GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL}>`;
+	const committer = `${gitIdent.GIT_COMMITTER_NAME} <${gitIdent.GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL}>`;
+	assert.deepEqual(result.stdout.trim().split("\n"), [`${author}|${committer}`, committer]);
+});