diff --git a/bin/claude-md-template.js b/bin/claude-md-template.js
index 8dc4dd2..d20901e 100644
--- a/bin/claude-md-template.js
+++ b/bin/claude-md-template.js
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Describe what to test in natural language and scenarios are generated automatica
 - \`voice_analytics\` — get aggregated transcription analytics
 - \`voice_status\` — check transcription service status and statistics
 - **STT providers:** openai, groq, local (whisper.cpp), whisper-cpp, faster-whisper, vllm, local-ai
-- **Local whisper:** A whisper-cli already on PATH (e.g. `brew install whisper-cpp`) is adopted automatically. On Windows, prebuilt whisper-cli is auto-downloaded from GitHub releases. Otherwise built from source via CMake.
+- **Local whisper:** A whisper-cli already on PATH (e.g. \`brew install whisper-cpp\`) is adopted automatically. On Windows, prebuilt whisper-cli is auto-downloaded from GitHub releases. Otherwise built from source via CMake.
 - **TTS engine:** msedge-tts (Microsoft Edge Read Aloud). Long text is automatically split into sentence chunks with pipelined generation + playback.
 - **TTS config:** \`voice\`, \`edgeRate\`, \`edgePitch\`, \`volume\`, \`chunkThreshold\`, \`fallbackRate\`, \`enabled\` — configurable via dashboard.
 - **TTS fallback chain:** If msedge-tts fails → PowerShell SAPI (Windows/WSL), \`say\` (macOS), espeak-ng/spd-say (Linux).
diff --git a/bin/claude-md-template.test.ts b/bin/claude-md-template.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fd30900
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/claude-md-template.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import { getClaudeMdContent, injectSection, removeSection } from './claude-md-template.js';
+
+// The template is one large template literal — a single unescaped backtick
+// in the markdown body is a syntax error that breaks the whole CLI at import
+// time. Importing the module at all is the core regression guard here.
+describe('claude-md-template', () => {
+  it('produces the managed section with begin/end markers', () => {
+    const content = getClaudeMdContent();
+    expect(content).toContain('<!-- DEVGLIDE:BEGIN');
+    expect(content).toContain('<!-- DEVGLIDE:END');
+  });
+
+  it('documents whisper-cli PATH adoption', () => {
+    expect(getClaudeMdContent()).toContain('brew install whisper-cpp');
+  });
+
+  it('inject then remove round-trips', () => {
+    const existing = '# My instructions\n';
+    const injected = injectSection(existing, getClaudeMdContent());
+    expect(injected).toContain('DEVGLIDE:BEGIN');
+    const removed = removeSection(injected);
+    expect(removed).not.toContain('DEVGLIDE:BEGIN');
+    expect(removed).toContain('# My instructions');
+  });
+});