diff --git a/desktop/README.md b/desktop/README.md
index 02e793a4766..f0891529b8d 100644
--- a/desktop/README.md
+++ b/desktop/README.md
@@ -60,6 +60,13 @@ bun run prepare-widget
 bunx tauri build --ci --bundles app,dmg
 ```
 
+Without the signing key, disable updater artifacts or the bundler errors out
+(`A public key has been found, but no private key`):
+
+```sh
+bunx tauri build --ci --bundles app,dmg --config '{"bundle":{"createUpdaterArtifacts":false}}'
+```
+
 Release signing is supplied through environment variables:
 
 ```sh
diff --git a/src/adapters/codebuddy/scaffold-guard.ts b/src/adapters/codebuddy/scaffold-guard.ts
index 707f90ae1c0..6f913233e1e 100644
--- a/src/adapters/codebuddy/scaffold-guard.ts
+++ b/src/adapters/codebuddy/scaffold-guard.ts
@@ -28,9 +28,28 @@ interface ScanResult {
   lineStart: boolean;
 }
 
+// Probe with ASCII-only case folding rather than toLowerCase(): Unicode lowercasing can expand
+// a code point (İ, ʼn, ligatures), shifting folded-text offsets away from `text` positions and
+// silently disabling detection. `expected` must already be lowercase.
+function asciiFold(code: number): number {
+  return code >= 0x41 && code <= 0x5a ? code + 0x20 : code;
+}
+
+function startsWithFolded(text: string, index: number, expected: string): boolean {
+  if (index + expected.length > text.length) return false;
+  for (let i = 0; i < expected.length; i++) {
+    if (asciiFold(text.charCodeAt(index + i)) !== expected.charCodeAt(i)) return false;
+  }
+  return true;
+}
+
 function prefixAtEnd(text: string, at: number, expected: string): boolean {
-  const rest = text.slice(at).toLowerCase();
-  return rest.length < expected.length && expected.startsWith(rest);
+  const remaining = text.length - at;
+  if (remaining > expected.length) return false;
+  for (let i = 0; i < remaining; i++) {
+    if (asciiFold(text.charCodeAt(at + i)) !== expected.charCodeAt(i)) return false;
+  }
+  return true;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -65,8 +84,7 @@ function scan(
       }
 
       if (!fence) {
-        const lowered = text.slice(index).toLowerCase();
-        if (lowered.startsWith(DSML_CALLS_LINE)) {
+        if (startsWithFolded(text, index, DSML_CALLS_LINE)) {
           const afterCalls = index + DSML_CALLS_LINE.length;
           let invokeAt = -1;
           if (text[afterCalls] === "\n") invokeAt = afterCalls + 1;
@@ -76,12 +94,11 @@ function scan(
           }
 
           if (invokeAt >= 0) {
-            const invokeRest = text.slice(invokeAt).toLowerCase();
-            const invokeNameStart = invokeRest[DSML_INVOKE_PREFIX.length];
-            if (invokeRest.startsWith(DSML_INVOKE_PREFIX) && invokeNameStart && !/[\s"]/.test(invokeNameStart)) {
+            const invokeNameStart = text[invokeAt + DSML_INVOKE_PREFIX.length];
+            if (startsWithFolded(text, invokeAt, DSML_INVOKE_PREFIX) && invokeNameStart && !/[\s"]/.test(invokeNameStart)) {
               return { safe: text.slice(0, index), held: "", fail: true, fence, lineStart };
             }
-            if (invokeRest.length === 0 || DSML_INVOKE_PREFIX.startsWith(invokeRest)) {
+            if (invokeAt === text.length || prefixAtEnd(text, invokeAt, DSML_INVOKE_PREFIX)) {
               return { safe: text.slice(0, index), held: text.slice(index), fail: false, fence, lineStart };
             }
           }
diff --git a/tests/providers/codebuddy-adapter.test.ts b/tests/providers/codebuddy-adapter.test.ts
index f68322752c5..f7c0be7a25d 100644
--- a/tests/providers/codebuddy-adapter.test.ts
+++ b/tests/providers/codebuddy-adapter.test.ts
@@ -378,6 +378,39 @@ describe("codebuddy runTurn streams a headless turn", () => {
     ]);
   });
 
+  test("scans a large multiline delta in time linear in its length", () => {
+    const run = (lines: number): { events: AdapterEvent[]; elapsed: number } => {
+      const events: AdapterEvent[] = [];
+      const guarded = guardCodeBuddyScaffolding(event => events.push(event));
+      const answer = "a\n".repeat(lines);
+      const startedAt = performance.now();
+      guarded({ type: "text_delta", text: answer });
+      return { events, elapsed: performance.now() - startedAt };
+    };
+
+    const baseline = run(40_000);
+    const scaled = run(160_000);
+
+    // Four times the input must stay near 4x cost; a scan re-walking its suffix could not fit.
+    expect(scaled.elapsed).toBeLessThan(Math.max(baseline.elapsed * 8, 250));
+    expect(baseline.events).toEqual([{ type: "text_delta", text: "a\n".repeat(40_000) }]);
+    expect(scaled.events).toEqual([{ type: "text_delta", text: "a\n".repeat(160_000) }]);
+  });
+
+  test("still refuses scaffolding after a code point that expands when lowercased", () => {
+    const events: AdapterEvent[] = [];
+    const guarded = guardCodeBuddyScaffolding(event => events.push(event));
+
+    // İ (U+0130) lowercases to two code units, so folded-text offsets no longer match `text`.
+    guarded({
+      type: "text_delta",
+      text: "note İ here\n<｜｜DSML｜｜ calls>\n<｜｜DSML｜｜ invoke name=\"exec\">private-body",
+    });
+
+    expect(events.at(-1)).toEqual(expect.objectContaining({ type: "error", code: "vendor_scaffold_detected" }));
+    expect(JSON.stringify(events)).not.toContain("private-body");
+  });
+
   test("delivers quoted and inline-code DSML literals unchanged", () => {
     const events: AdapterEvent[] = [];
     const guarded = guardCodeBuddyScaffolding(event => events.push(event));