diff --git a/crates/ide-agent/src/lib.rs b/crates/ide-agent/src/lib.rs
index af30ddbdb..676eb3036 100644
--- a/crates/ide-agent/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/ide-agent/src/lib.rs
@@ -1937,7 +1937,7 @@ fn permission_title(params: &Value) -> String {
         if let Some(command) = call.pointer("/rawInput/command").and_then(Value::as_str).filter(|c| !c.is_empty()) {
             // Network approvals describe the host rather than approving command execution.
             if !title.is_some_and(|t| t.starts_with("Allow network access to ")) {
-                return format!("Run {command}");
+                return format!("Run {}", shell_script(command).unwrap_or_else(|| command.to_owned()));
             }
         }
         if title.is_none()
@@ -1950,6 +1950,45 @@ fn permission_title(params: &Value) -> String {
     title.unwrap_or("The agent asks for permission").to_owned()
 }
 
+/// The script of a `<shell> -c <quoted script>` command line, when the whole line is exactly that.
+pub(crate) fn shell_script(command: &str) -> Option<String> {
+    let (shell, rest) = command.split_once(' ')?;
+    if !matches!(shell.rsplit('/').next(), Some("sh" | "bash" | "zsh")) {
+        return None;
+    }
+    let quoted = rest.strip_prefix("-lc ").or_else(|| rest.strip_prefix("-c "))?;
+    let mut out = String::new();
+    let mut chars = quoted.chars();
+    // Adjacent quoted words, e.g. 'a'\''b' or "a \"b\"".
+    while let Some(c) = chars.next() {
+        match c {
+            '\'' => loop {
+                match chars.next()? {
+                    '\'' => break,
+                    c => out.push(c),
+                }
+            },
+            '"' => loop {
+                match chars.next()? {
+                    '"' => break,
+                    '\\' => match chars.next()? {
+                        c @ ('"' | '\\' | '$' | '`') => out.push(c),
+                        '\n' => {}
+                        c => {
+                            out.push('\\');
+                            out.push(c);
+                        }
+                    },
+                    c => out.push(c),
+                }
+            },
+            '\\' => out.push(chars.next()?),
+            _ => return None,
+        }
+    }
+    Some(out)
+}
+
 /// The questions a permission request asks, and whether they answer by question index.
 /// The Claude Code adapter carries them as `_meta.questions`, answered as the option id;
 /// Qwen Code (ACP) as `_meta.qwenQuestions`, answered with `answers` keyed by index beside
diff --git a/crates/ide-agent/src/native/codex/translate.rs b/crates/ide-agent/src/native/codex/translate.rs
index 2dc0a4152..006048967 100644
--- a/crates/ide-agent/src/native/codex/translate.rs
+++ b/crates/ide-agent/src/native/codex/translate.rs
@@ -745,50 +745,11 @@ pub(super) fn command_approval_title(params: &Value, item: Option<&Value>) -> St
         .filter(|c| !c.is_empty())
         .or_else(|| item.and_then(|i| i.get("command")).and_then(Value::as_str).filter(|c| !c.is_empty()));
     match command {
-        Some(command) => format!("Run {}", shell_script(command).unwrap_or_else(|| command.to_owned())),
+        Some(command) => format!("Run {}", crate::shell_script(command).unwrap_or_else(|| command.to_owned())),
         None => "Run a command".to_owned(),
     }
 }
 
-/// The script of a `<shell> -c <quoted script>` command line, when the whole line is exactly that.
-fn shell_script(command: &str) -> Option<String> {
-    let (shell, rest) = command.split_once(' ')?;
-    if !matches!(shell.rsplit('/').next(), Some("sh" | "bash" | "zsh")) {
-        return None;
-    }
-    let quoted = rest.strip_prefix("-lc ").or_else(|| rest.strip_prefix("-c "))?;
-    let mut out = String::new();
-    let mut chars = quoted.chars();
-    // Adjacent quoted words, e.g. 'a'\''b' or "a \"b\"".
-    while let Some(c) = chars.next() {
-        match c {
-            '\'' => loop {
-                match chars.next()? {
-                    '\'' => break,
-                    c => out.push(c),
-                }
-            },
-            '"' => loop {
-                match chars.next()? {
-                    '"' => break,
-                    '\\' => match chars.next()? {
-                        c @ ('"' | '\\' | '$' | '`') => out.push(c),
-                        '\n' => {}
-                        c => {
-                            out.push('\\');
-                            out.push(c);
-                        }
-                    },
-                    c => out.push(c),
-                }
-            },
-            '\\' => out.push(chars.next()?),
-            _ => return None,
-        }
-    }
-    Some(out)
-}
-
 /// The ACP title of a file-change approval, from the item it is about.
 pub(super) fn file_approval_title(item: Option<&Value>, cwd: Option<&str>) -> String {
     let changes = item.and_then(|i| i.get("changes")).and_then(Value::as_array).map(Vec::as_slice).unwrap_or_default();
diff --git a/crates/ide-agent/src/tests.rs b/crates/ide-agent/src/tests.rs
index 1ee70c274..fd53447ab 100644
--- a/crates/ide-agent/src/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/ide-agent/src/tests.rs
@@ -17,6 +17,14 @@ fn permission_uses_its_own_command_payload() {
     assert_eq!(permission_title(&request), format!("Run {command}"));
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn permission_shows_the_script_inside_a_shell_wrapper() {
+    let wrapped = r#"/bin/zsh -lc "python3 -c 'import pathlib\np = pathlib.Path(\"a.txt\")'""#;
+    let request = json!({"toolCall": {"toolCallId": "write", "kind": "execute",
+        "title": "Run python3", "rawInput": {"command": wrapped}}});
+    assert_eq!(permission_title(&request), "Run python3 -c 'import pathlib\\np = pathlib.Path(\"a.txt\")'");
+}
+
 /// Says "Hi", edits a file, asks to run a command and reports what it was allowed.
 #[derive(Default)]
 struct FakeAgent {