diff --git a/scripts/agentrun-cli-contract-test.ts b/scripts/agentrun-cli-contract-test.ts
index b4ee5995..602fccca 100644
--- a/scripts/agentrun-cli-contract-test.ts
+++ b/scripts/agentrun-cli-contract-test.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
 import { agentRunHelp } from "./src/agentrun";
 import { rootHelp } from "./src/help";
 
@@ -21,15 +22,30 @@ assertCondition(
 const globalHelp = JSON.stringify(rootHelp());
 
 assertCondition(
-  globalHelp.includes("agentrun v01 control-plane status|trigger-current|refresh|cleanup-runs|cleanup-released-pvs"),
-  "global help must index AgentRun cleanup entrypoints",
+  globalHelp.includes("agentrun v01 queue|sessions|control-plane|git-mirror"),
+  "global help must index AgentRun v0.1 entrypoints",
   rootHelp(),
 );
 
+const agentRunSource = readFileSync("scripts/src/agentrun.ts", "utf8");
+const runtimeJsonFallback = "\"node <<'NODE' || printf '{}\\\\n'\"";
+
+function statusScriptSection(label: string): string {
+  const start = agentRunSource.indexOf(`printf '${label}='`);
+  return start >= 0 ? agentRunSource.slice(start, start + 500) : "";
+}
+
+assertCondition(
+  statusScriptSection("pipelineRunCondition").includes(runtimeJsonFallback)
+    && statusScriptSection("ciSummary").includes(runtimeJsonFallback),
+  "AgentRun control-plane status must degrade empty runtime JSON snippets instead of failing the whole status probe",
+);
+
 console.log(JSON.stringify({
   ok: true,
   checks: [
     "AgentRun command help exposes cleanup-runs and cleanup-released-pvs",
-    "global help indexes AgentRun cleanup entrypoints",
+    "global help indexes AgentRun v0.1 entrypoints",
+    "AgentRun control-plane status degrades empty runtime JSON snippets",
   ],
 }));
diff --git a/scripts/src/agentrun.ts b/scripts/src/agentrun.ts
index ce7ed338..924ee7ca 100644
--- a/scripts/src/agentrun.ts
+++ b/scripts/src/agentrun.ts
@@ -915,7 +915,7 @@ function statusScript(pipelineRun: string | null): string {
     pr.length > 0
       ? [
         `if kubectl -n ${ciNamespace} get pipelinerun ${shQuote(pr)} -o json >/tmp/agentrun-v01-pipelinerun.json 2>/dev/null; then`,
-        "node <<'NODE'",
+        "node <<'NODE' || printf '{}\\n'",
         "const fs = require('node:fs');",
         "const pr = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync('/tmp/agentrun-v01-pipelinerun.json', 'utf8'));",
         "const condition = pr?.status?.conditions?.[0] || {};",
@@ -945,7 +945,7 @@ function statusScript(pipelineRun: string | null): string {
     pr.length > 0
       ? [
         `if kubectl -n ${ciNamespace} get taskrun -l tekton.dev/pipelineRun=${shQuote(pr)} -o json >/tmp/agentrun-v01-taskruns.json 2>/dev/null; then`,
-        "node <<'NODE'",
+        "node <<'NODE' || printf '{}\\n'",
         "const fs = require('node:fs');",
         "const data = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync('/tmp/agentrun-v01-taskruns.json', 'utf8'));",
         "const items = Array.isArray(data.items) ? data.items : [];",