diff --git a/lib/crates/fabro-cli/tests/it/cmd/render_graph.rs b/lib/crates/fabro-cli/tests/it/cmd/render_graph.rs
index 088cec424..e58c0bef7 100644
--- a/lib/crates/fabro-cli/tests/it/cmd/render_graph.rs
+++ b/lib/crates/fabro-cli/tests/it/cmd/render_graph.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+#![expect(
+    clippy::disallowed_methods,
+    reason = "These CLI integration tests intentionally spawn the real fabro binary and stream DOT over stdio to verify the internal render subprocess contract."
+)]
+
 use std::io::Write;
 use std::process::{Command, Stdio};
 
diff --git a/lib/crates/fabro-server/src/server.rs b/lib/crates/fabro-server/src/server.rs
index f08779b90..4865d5ac6 100644
--- a/lib/crates/fabro-server/src/server.rs
+++ b/lib/crates/fabro-server/src/server.rs
@@ -8048,7 +8048,8 @@ slug = "fabro"
     #[cfg(unix)]
     #[tokio::test]
     async fn render_dot_subprocess_returns_protocol_violation_for_garbage_stdout() {
-        let (_dir, script_path) = write_test_executable("#!/bin/sh\nprintf 'garbage'\nexit 0\n");
+        let (_dir, script_path) =
+            write_test_executable("#!/bin/sh\ncat >/dev/null\nprintf 'garbage'\nexit 0\n");
 
         let result = render_dot_subprocess("digraph { a -> b }", Some(&script_path)).await;