diff --git a/bin/tarbuckle b/bin/tarbuckle
index 32ebe34..f914146 100755
--- a/bin/tarbuckle
+++ b/bin/tarbuckle
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@
 #
 #   ! tarbuckle              call him by name; he answers at length
 #   ! tarbuckle what now     ask him something
+#   ! tarbuckle "opinion?"   a QUESTION MARK must be quoted, or dropped
+#
+# ⚠ zsh expands `?`, `*` and `[` as globs before this script is ever reached, so an
+# unquoted `tarbuckle opinion?` dies at "no matches found" in the shell. Three ways
+# past it, in order of least fuss: drop the `?`, quote the phrase, or rely on the
+# `alias tarbuckle='noglob tarbuckle'` in shell/.zshrc — which only helps if the
+# calling shell is interactive, since that is the only kind that reads .zshrc.
 #   ! tarbuckle mute         silence the utterances; he stays in the room
 #   ! tarbuckle off          remove him entirely
 #   ! tarbuckle on           bring him back
@@ -31,6 +38,6 @@ PY
     r="$HOME/.claude/state/tarbuckle-rejects.jsonl"
     [ -f "$r" ] && echo "silences: $(wc -l < "$r" | tr -d ' ') logged (net rejections + timeouts)" || true
     ;;
-  --help|-h) sed -n '2,14p' "$0" | sed 's/^# \{0,1\}//' ;;
+  --help|-h) sed -n '2,22p' "$0" | sed 's/^# \{0,1\}//' ;;
   *) exec python3 "$S/tarbuckle-invoke.py" "$@" ;;
 esac
diff --git a/shell/.zshrc b/shell/.zshrc
index 01edaf0..07c634b 100644
--- a/shell/.zshrc
+++ b/shell/.zshrc
@@ -205,4 +205,11 @@ typeset -U path PATH
 # - Each section has clear purpose and boundaries
 # - Graceful degradation when tools are missing  
 # - Performance considerations for different use cases
-# - Modular structure for maintainability
\ No newline at end of file
+# - Modular structure for maintainability
+
+# Tarbuckle — call him by name with an actual question.
+# zsh treats `?` (and `*`, `[`) as globs, so `tarbuckle opinion?` dies at
+# "no matches found" before the wrapper is ever reached. noglob suspends filename
+# generation for this command only. Not `unsetopt nomatch`, which would change how
+# every command in the shell behaves to fix one of them.
+alias tarbuckle='noglob tarbuckle'