diff --git a/functions/__fish_real_command.fish b/functions/__fish_real_command.fish
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..743c7b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/functions/__fish_real_command.fish
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# Copyright (C) 2026 Rootiest
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
+
+# SYNOPSIS
+#   __fish_real_command <name>
+#
+# DESCRIPTION
+#   Resolves the real on-disk binary for <name>, skipping any of this
+#   config's own generated wrapper shims. The PTY-logging wrappers we drop
+#   in ~/.local/bin (paru, yay) shadow the real binary on PATH; this walks
+#   every PATH match in order and returns the first one that is NOT one of
+#   our wrappers, identified by the "# <name>-wrapper-version:" marker line.
+#
+#   This intentionally never returns one of our own wrappers, so callers
+#   that embed the result in a generated wrapper cannot create a shim that
+#   recurses into itself.
+#
+# ARGUMENTS
+#   name  Command name to resolve (e.g. paru, yay)
+#
+# RETURNS
+#   0  Real binary path printed to stdout
+#   1  No non-wrapper binary found on PATH (nothing printed)
+#
+# EXAMPLE
+#   set -l real (__fish_real_command paru)   # -> /usr/bin/paru, not the shim
+function __fish_real_command --argument-names name
+    for p in (command -sa $name)
+        # -I: binary files (real ELF binaries) count as no-match and are
+        # returned; only our text wrapper scripts carry the marker and skip.
+        grep -qsIF -- "# $name-wrapper-version:" $p; and continue
+        echo $p
+        return 0
+    end
+    return 1
+end
diff --git a/functions/_fish_deps_status.fish b/functions/_fish_deps_status.fish
index 4ed2882..20532cd 100644
--- a/functions/_fish_deps_status.fish
+++ b/functions/_fish_deps_status.fish
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ function _fish_deps_status
             end
             set_color green; echo -n " ✓ "; set_color normal
             echo -n "$bin "
-            set_color brblack; echo "(Found at "(command -s $bin)")"; set_color normal
+            set_color brblack; echo "(Found at "(__fish_real_command $bin)")"; set_color normal
         else if test "$tier" = rec
             set_color yellow; echo -n " ⚠ "; set_color normal
             echo -n "$bin "