diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f5810d5308..003363ff40 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,15 @@ this file. The format follows Keep a Changelog, and versioned releases follow
 Semantic Versioning where the repository publishes a release.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
+- Fix a pre-existing SIGPIPE (exit 141) flake in
+  `tests/test_opencode_required_verdict_regression.py::test_scheduler_wake_reuses_trusted_receipt_predicate`.
+  The test's fake `gh` fixture never drained the JSON piped into it via `--input -` for the
+  dispatches call; under `set -euo pipefail`, the pipeline's writer (`jq`) could be killed by
+  `SIGPIPE` whenever the fake reader exited before `jq` finished writing. Reproduced at roughly a
+  13-60% failure rate over repeated runs in complete isolation (not merely under full-suite load,
+  though full-suite load made it more likely) and eliminated (20-30/20-30 clean runs each
+  verification round) by draining stdin (`cat >/dev/null`) before the fixture writes its own
+  output. Test-only change; no production code touched.
 - Avoid redundant merge-scheduler wakes when the trusted receipt predicate
   already finds a substantive exact-head OpenCode verdict. Missing, stale, or
   fallback-only evidence still dispatches review work, while receipt lookup or
diff --git a/tests/test_opencode_required_verdict_regression.py b/tests/test_opencode_required_verdict_regression.py
index 8f8047ff10..0e5d30805b 100644
--- a/tests/test_opencode_required_verdict_regression.py
+++ b/tests/test_opencode_required_verdict_regression.py
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ def test_scheduler_wake_reuses_trusted_receipt_predicate(
 elif [[ "$*" == *"/pulls/7/reviews"* ]]; then
   printf '[%s]' "$FAKE_REVIEWS"
 elif [[ "$*" == *"repos/ContextualWisdomLab/.github/dispatches"* ]]; then
+  cat >/dev/null
   printf 'dispatch\n' >>"$DISPATCH_CALLS"
 fi
 """,