diff --git a/pkg/cmd/command_parity_test.go b/pkg/cmd/command_parity_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ec309412f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/cmd/command_parity_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"io"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/alecthomas/kong"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/block/schemabot/pkg/webhook"
+	"github.com/block/schemabot/pkg/webhook/action"
+)
+
+// prCommandsWithoutCLICommand lists the PR comment commands that deliberately
+// have no CLI command of the same name, each mapped to the CLI capability that
+// covers it. Parity between the two surfaces is of capability, not of spelling,
+// and this table is where a difference in spelling has to be justified.
+var prCommandsWithoutCLICommand = map[string]string{
+	// Kong renders help for the whole CLI itself, so there is no command field
+	// on the CLI struct to match.
+	action.Help: "kong provides the CLI's own --help",
+
+	// The PR's two-step consent for a destructive change is a second command
+	// because a comment has no prompt to answer. On the CLI the same consent is
+	// the answer to apply's interactive prompt, or its --auto-approve flag.
+	action.ApplyConfirm: "consent is apply's confirmation prompt / --auto-approve",
+
+	// Same two-step consent, on the CLI's rollback.
+	action.RollbackConfirm: "consent is rollback's confirmation prompt / --auto-approve",
+}
+
+// Every command a PR comment accepts must be reachable from the CLI, so an
+// operator can still drive a schema change when GitHub is unavailable. A new PR
+// comment command therefore has to ship with either a CLI command of the same
+// name or an entry in prCommandsWithoutCLICommand naming the CLI capability
+// that covers it.
+//
+// The reverse does not hold: the CLI is deliberately a superset, carrying
+// commands (status, logs, storage, serve, and others) that have no reason to be
+// issued from a PR comment.
+//
+// Only the spelling half of that parity is mechanized here: this asserts that a
+// CLI command exists to answer each comment command, not that the two do the
+// same thing. A CLI apply whose behavior drifted from comment apply still
+// passes, so the capability half remains a convention.
+func TestEveryPRCommandHasACLIEquivalent(t *testing.T) {
+	prCommands := webhook.CommandNames()
+	require.NotEmpty(t, prCommands, "webhook registers no PR comment commands")
+
+	cliCommands := cliCommandNames(t)
+	require.NotEmpty(t, cliCommands, "CLI struct exposes no commands")
+
+	for _, name := range prCommands {
+		if _, exempt := prCommandsWithoutCLICommand[name]; exempt {
+			continue
+		}
+		assert.Contains(t, cliCommands, name,
+			"PR comment command %q has no CLI equivalent; add a cmd-tagged field to CLI, "+
+				"or add %q to prCommandsWithoutCLICommand naming the CLI capability that covers it",
+			name, name)
+	}
+}
+
+// The exemption table must not outlive the commands it excuses: a stale entry
+// would silently exempt a command name that is no longer registered, and would
+// go on exempting it if that name were later reused for a different command.
+func TestPRCommandExemptionsNameRegisteredCommands(t *testing.T) {
+	prCommands := webhook.CommandNames()
+	require.NotEmpty(t, prCommands, "webhook registers no PR comment commands")
+
+	for name, reason := range prCommandsWithoutCLICommand {
+		assert.Contains(t, prCommands, name,
+			"prCommandsWithoutCLICommand exempts %q, which is not a registered PR comment command; remove the entry",
+			name)
+		assert.NotEmpty(t, reason,
+			"exemption for %q has no reason; name the CLI capability that covers it", name)
+	}
+}
+
+// cliCommandNames returns the name of every top-level command on the CLI
+// struct. The names come from kong's own model rather than from the struct tags
+// directly, so they are exactly the words the binary accepts: an explicit
+// name: tag where one is set, and kong's derivation from the field name
+// otherwise.
+func cliCommandNames(t *testing.T) []string {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	var cli CLI
+	parser, err := kong.New(&cli,
+		kong.Name("schemabot"),
+		kong.Writers(io.Discard, io.Discard),
+		kong.Vars{"cli_name": "schemabot"},
+	)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	names := make([]string, 0, len(parser.Model.Children))
+	for _, child := range parser.Model.Children {
+		if child.Type == kong.CommandNode {
+			names = append(names, child.Name)
+		}
+	}
+	return names
+}
diff --git a/pkg/webhook/commands.go b/pkg/webhook/commands.go
index 3cbf85cd9..93dde3feb 100644
--- a/pkg/webhook/commands.go
+++ b/pkg/webhook/commands.go
@@ -70,6 +70,22 @@ var commandSpecs = []CommandSpec{
 	{Name: action.RollbackConfirm, RequiresEnv: true, SupportsDeferCutover: true},
 }
 
+// CommandNames returns the command word of every registered PR comment
+// command.
+//
+// Exported so the CLI's own command surface can be checked against it: every
+// command a PR comment accepts has to have a CLI equivalent, because both
+// surfaces converge on the same service methods and the CLI is the fallback
+// when GitHub is unavailable. A fallback that covers only part of the surface
+// is not a fallback.
+func CommandNames() []string {
+	names := make([]string, 0, len(commandSpecs))
+	for _, s := range commandSpecs {
+		names = append(names, s.Name)
+	}
+	return names
+}
+
 // specByName indexes commandSpecs for O(1) lookup by command word.
 var specByName = func() map[string]CommandSpec {
 	m := make(map[string]CommandSpec, len(commandSpecs))