diff --git a/tools/askuser-answer-parser.mjs b/tools/askuser-answer-parser.mjs
index 3a96152b..7bf0ba51 100644
--- a/tools/askuser-answer-parser.mjs
+++ b/tools/askuser-answer-parser.mjs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env node
+#!/usr/bin/env node
 /**
  * AskUserQuestion answer parsing library (router-gate v4, Stream E).
  *
@@ -53,14 +53,17 @@ const STOP_TOKENS = new Set(STOP_KEYWORDS.filter((k) => !k.includes(' ')));
 /**
  * True if a free-form answer is a stop/abort/cancel intent (S27).
  * Keyword-based; normalizes (E33 invisible strip + ws-collapse + lowercase) first.
+ * Punctuation attached to tokens (e.g. "нет,") is stripped before matching.
  */
 export function isStopAnswer(text) {
   const norm = normalizeAnswer(text);
   if (!norm) return false;
+  const depunct = (s) => s.replace(/[.,;:!?…«»"'()\[\]{}]+/g, ' ').split(/\s+/).filter(Boolean).join(' ');
+  const cleaned = depunct(norm);
   for (const phrase of STOP_PHRASES) {
-    if (norm.includes(normalizeAnswer(phrase))) return true;
+    if (cleaned.includes(depunct(normalizeAnswer(phrase)))) return true;
   }
-  const tokens = norm.split(' ');
+  const tokens = cleaned.split(' ');
   for (const t of tokens) {
     if (STOP_TOKENS.has(t)) return true;
   }
@@ -72,6 +75,7 @@ export function isStopAnswer(text) {
  * @param {string} text
  * @param {{llmJudge?: (text:string)=>Promise<boolean>}} opts
  *   llmJudge default-stub returns false (never escalates). Stream D wires real judge.
+ *   The injected llmJudge receives whitespace-collapsed lowercase text (post-normalizeAnswer), not the raw input.
  * @returns {Promise<boolean>}
  */
 export async function detectStopWithFallback(text, { llmJudge } = {}) {
@@ -149,7 +153,7 @@ export function detectOtherSocialEng(controllerText) {
  */
 export function buildApprovalRecord({ kind, pattern, sessionId, nowMs }) {
   return {
-    kind: String(kind || 'approve_generic'),
+    kind: String(kind ?? 'approve_generic'),
     approved_action_pattern: normalizeCommand(pattern),
     session_id: sessionId || 'unknown',
     approved_at_ms: typeof nowMs === 'number' ? nowMs : Date.now(),
diff --git a/tools/askuser-answer-parser.test.mjs b/tools/askuser-answer-parser.test.mjs
index 3b45259d..012070c2 100644
--- a/tools/askuser-answer-parser.test.mjs
+++ b/tools/askuser-answer-parser.test.mjs
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@ import {
   stripInvisible,
   normalizeAnswer,
   normalizeCommand,
+  STOP_KEYWORDS,
+  isStopAnswer,
+  detectStopWithFallback,
+  parseAskUserResult,
+  matchesApproval,
+  detectOtherSocialEng,
+  buildApprovalRecord,
 } from './askuser-answer-parser.mjs';
 
 describe('askuser-answer-parser / stripInvisible (E33)', () => {
@@ -49,11 +56,6 @@ describe('askuser-answer-parser / normalizeCommand (E34)', () => {
   });
 });
 
-import {
-  STOP_KEYWORDS,
-  isStopAnswer,
-  detectStopWithFallback,
-} from './askuser-answer-parser.mjs';
 
 describe('askuser-answer-parser / STOP_KEYWORDS (S27)', () => {
   it('includes core Russian + English stop tokens', () => {
@@ -98,6 +100,15 @@ describe('askuser-answer-parser / isStopAnswer', () => {
   it('returns false for non-string', () => {
     expect(isStopAnswer(null)).toBe(false);
   });
+
+  it('matches a stop token with a trailing comma', () => {
+    expect(isStopAnswer('нет, это лишнее')).toBe(true);
+    expect(isStopAnswer('стоп.')).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('still matches multi-word phrase without the comma', () => {
+    expect(isStopAnswer('всё поехали назад')).toBe(true);
+  });
 });
 
 describe('askuser-answer-parser / detectStopWithFallback', () => {
@@ -127,12 +138,6 @@ describe('askuser-answer-parser / detectStopWithFallback', () => {
   });
 });
 
-import {
-  parseAskUserResult,
-  matchesApproval,
-  detectOtherSocialEng,
-  buildApprovalRecord,
-} from './askuser-answer-parser.mjs';
 
 describe('askuser-answer-parser / parseAskUserResult', () => {
   it('extracts a single selected answer label', () => {