diff --git a/scripts/src/decision-center.ts b/scripts/src/decision-center.ts
index 5054fde8..d5766550 100644
--- a/scripts/src/decision-center.ts
+++ b/scripts/src/decision-center.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
 import { resolve } from "node:path";
 import { type UniDeskConfig, repoRoot } from "./config";
 import { runCommand } from "./command";
+import { resolveCliChildJsonCommandResult } from "./cli-child-json-recovery";
 import { coreInternalFetch } from "./microservices";
 import { capture, compactCapture, parseJsonOutput, shQuote } from "./platform-infra-ops-library";
 
@@ -659,11 +660,24 @@ console.log(output);
       stderrTail: result.stderr.slice(-1000),
     };
   }
-  const jsonLine = result.stdout.trim().split("\n").reverse().find((line) => line.trim().startsWith("{"));
-  if (jsonLine === undefined) {
-    return { ok: false, status: 502, error: "NC01 decision-center k8s proxy returned no JSON", stdoutTail: result.stdout.slice(-1000), stderrTail: result.stderr.slice(-1000) };
-  }
-  return JSON.parse(jsonLine) as unknown;
+  const resolved = resolveCliChildJsonCommandResult({
+    result,
+    requestedStdoutType: "NC01 decision-center k8s proxy JSON",
+    acceptParsed: (value) => typeof value.ok === "boolean" && typeof value.status === "number",
+  });
+  if (resolved.parsed !== null) return resolved.parsed;
+  return {
+    ok: false,
+    status: 502,
+    error: "NC01 decision-center k8s proxy returned unparseable JSON",
+    transport: {
+      exitCode: result.exitCode,
+      timedOut: result.timedOut,
+      stdoutBytes: Buffer.byteLength(result.stdout),
+      stderrBytes: Buffer.byteLength(result.stderr),
+    },
+    diagnostics: resolved.diagnostics,
+  };
 }
 
 async function decisionProxyAsync(