diff --git a/bin/gstack-memory-ingest.ts b/bin/gstack-memory-ingest.ts
index 88fdbc7e4..967101050 100644
--- a/bin/gstack-memory-ingest.ts
+++ b/bin/gstack-memory-ingest.ts
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ Options:
   --all-history        Walk transcripts older than 90 days too.
   --sources <list>     Comma-separated subset: ${ALL_TYPES.join(",")}
   --limit <N>          Stop after N pages written (smoke testing).
-  --no-write           Skip gbrain put_page calls (still updates state file).
+  --no-write           Skip gbrain put calls (still updates state file).
                        Used by tests + dry runs without actual ingest.
   --scan-secrets       Opt-in per-file gitleaks scan during prepare. Off by
                        default; gstack-brain-sync already gates the git-push
@@ -1061,7 +1061,7 @@ async function probeMode(args: CliArgs): Promise<ProbeReport> {
   }
 
   // Per ED2: ~25-35 min for ~11.7K transcripts = ~150ms/page synchronous
-  // (gitleaks + render + put_page + embedding). Scale linearly.
+  // (gitleaks + render + put + embedding). Scale linearly.
   const estimateMinutes = Math.max(1, Math.round((newCount + updatedCount) * 0.15 / 60));
 
   return {
@@ -1374,7 +1374,7 @@ async function ingestPass(args: CliArgs): Promise<BulkResult> {
   if (args.noWrite) {
     // --no-write: skip the gbrain import call but still record state for
     // prepared pages (treat them as ingested for dedup purposes). Matches
-    // the prior contract from --help: "Skip gbrain put_page calls (still
+    // the prior contract from --help: "Skip gbrain put calls (still
     // updates state file)".
     const nowIso = new Date().toISOString();
     for (const p of prep.prepared) {
diff --git a/test/memory-ingest-no-put_page.test.ts b/test/memory-ingest-no-put_page.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..95985b854
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/memory-ingest-no-put_page.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+/**
+ * Regression pin for #1346: gstack-memory-ingest must never call the
+ * `gbrain put_page` subcommand (renamed to `put` in gbrain v0.18+).
+ *
+ * The original bug shipped a literal `"put_page"` in execFileSync args,
+ * crashing every transcript ingest against modern gbrain. The fix migrated
+ * the per-file path to `gbrain put <slug>` and later to the batch
+ * `gbrain import <dir>` runner. This test pins both surfaces: source code
+ * must not contain `put_page` outside comments, and any future contributor
+ * adding it back trips the build.
+ */
+
+import { describe, it, expect } from "bun:test";
+import { readFileSync } from "fs";
+import { join } from "path";
+
+const SOURCE_PATH = join(import.meta.dir, "..", "bin", "gstack-memory-ingest.ts");
+
+/**
+ * Strip line comments (`// ...`) and block comments (`/* ... *​/`) from TS
+ * source so the regression check only inspects executable code. Naive but
+ * sufficient — we don't need full TS parsing, just to ignore the
+ * documentation/changelog mentions of the old subcommand name.
+ *
+ * Order matters: strip block comments first (they may span multiple lines
+ * and contain `//`), then line comments. String-literal awareness is
+ * intentionally skipped — if anyone writes "put_page" inside an active
+ * string they want the test to fail.
+ */
+function stripComments(src: string): string {
+  // Block comments — non-greedy across newlines.
+  const noBlock = src.replace(/\/\*[\s\S]*?\*\//g, "");
+  // Line comments — strip from `//` to end of line.
+  return noBlock.replace(/\/\/[^\n]*/g, "");
+}
+
+describe("gstack-memory-ingest — no put_page in active code (regression for #1346)", () => {
+  it("source file does not call the renamed gbrain put_page subcommand", () => {
+    const src = readFileSync(SOURCE_PATH, "utf-8");
+    const stripped = stripComments(src);
+    expect(stripped).not.toContain("put_page");
+  });
+
+  it("source file does call the canonical gbrain put subcommand or gbrain import", () => {
+    // Sanity check that the file actually uses one of the supported page-write
+    // verbs — guards against accidentally removing all gbrain calls and having
+    // the negative test above pass for the wrong reason.
+    const src = readFileSync(SOURCE_PATH, "utf-8");
+    const stripped = stripComments(src);
+    const callsPut = /\bgbrain\s+put\b/.test(stripped) || /["']put["']/.test(stripped);
+    const callsImport = /\bimport\b/.test(stripped); // `gbrain import` runner
+    expect(callsPut || callsImport).toBe(true);
+  });
+});