diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 52a98cc..2c59ac9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -135,13 +135,19 @@ uv run plugrl-run-env-client mujoco-v1 --num-envs 1 --num-episodes 600 \
 Run the `dummy-v1` environment with custom parameters:
 
 ```bash
-# Run 100 episodes with 'debug' logging level
-uv run plugrl-run-env-client dummy-v1 --num-episodes 100 --log-level debug
+# Run 100 episodes
+uv run plugrl-run-env-client dummy-v1 --num-episodes 100
 
 # Run with custom environment settings (64x64 image, 4-dim action space)
 uv run plugrl-run-env-client dummy-v1 --env.img-width 64 --env.img-height 64 --env.action-dim 4
 ```
 
+This example used to carry `--log-level debug`, which the env client has never
+had - the flag exists on `plugrl-run-server`, and the line was copied from
+there. There is no verbosity flag on this side. `tests/test_documented_commands.py`
+now runs every command on this page through the parser, which is how that was
+found.
+
 ### Get More Help
 
 To see all available options for a specific environment:
diff --git a/tests/test_documented_commands.py b/tests/test_documented_commands.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2253d6b
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+++ b/tests/test_documented_commands.py
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+"""Every env-client command in the README must survive its own parser.
+
+An adversarial audit found flags documented on the project's site that do not
+exist at all - `--num-workers` for what is really `--num-procs`,
+`--use-real-time` and `--fps` for nothing, and `--use-env-lock` for
+`--runner.use-env-lock`. They had been there since the pages were written,
+because documentation is not executed.
+
+This executes the README's commands, as far as the parser. Parsing is a floor
+rather than a guarantee: a flag can parse and still be ignored. It is the floor
+that was missing.
+
+Environments behind an optional extra are reported as skipped, decided from the
+registry rather than from the error text, so a genuine parse failure can never
+be mistaken for a missing extra.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import pathlib
+import re
+import shlex
+import sys
+
+import pytest
+
+README = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] / "README.md"
+
+
+def _bash_blocks(text: str) -> list[str]:
+    return re.findall(r"```(?:bash|sh|console)\n(.*?)```", text, re.S)
+
+
+def _commands(text: str) -> list[str]:
+    out: list[str] = []
+    for block in _bash_blocks(text):
+        joined = re.sub(r"\\s*\n\s*", " ", block)
+        for line in joined.splitlines():
+            line = line.strip()
+            if not line or line.startswith("#"):
+                continue
+            # The README writes invocations three ways, and one block is a
+            # usage sketch with a placeholder rather than a command.
+            if not re.match(
+                r"^(uv run )?(plugrl-run-env-client|python -m plugrl_env_client\.cli)",
+                line,
+            ):
+                continue
+            if "<" in line or ">" in line or "[OPTIONS]" in line:
+                continue
+            out.append(line)
+    return out
+
+
+def _args(command: str) -> list[str]:
+    parts = shlex.split(command)
+    if parts[0] == "uv":  # uv run plugrl-run-env-client ...
+        parts = parts[2:]
+    if parts[0] == "python":  # python -m plugrl_env_client.cli ...
+        return parts[3:]
+    return parts[1:]
+
+
+COMMANDS = _commands(README.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+
+
+def test_the_readme_contains_commands_to_check():
+    """A regex that silently matched nothing would make every test below pass."""
+    assert len(COMMANDS) >= 3, f"only found {len(COMMANDS)} commands in {README}"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("command", COMMANDS, ids=lambda c: c[:60])
+def test_documented_command_parses(command, monkeypatch, capsys):
+    args = _args(command)
+    if "--help" in args:
+        pytest.skip("--help exits by design")
+
+    import plugrl_env_client.envs  # noqa: F401 - registers the env modules
+    from plugrl_env_client.cli import cli
+    from plugrl_env_client.utils.registration import REGISTERED_ENV_CONFIGS
+
+    # tyro renders the subcommand from the registry key, lowercased: the
+    # registry holds "MuJoCo-v1" and the README writes "mujoco-v1".
+    registered = {k.lower() for k in REGISTERED_ENV_CONFIGS}
+    if args and not args[0].startswith("-") and args[0].lower() not in registered:
+        pytest.skip(f"env '{args[0]}' needs an extra this install lacks")
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(sys, "argv", ["prog", *args])
+    try:
+        cli()
+    except SystemExit as exc:
+        out = capsys.readouterr()
+        tail = (out.out + out.err)[-1500:]
+        pytest.fail(
+            f"README command failed to parse (exit {exc.code}):\n  {command}\n\n{tail}"
+        )