diff --git a/src/specify_cli/events.py b/src/specify_cli/events.py
index 83da04d4fb..ef298e8cb0 100644
--- a/src/specify_cli/events.py
+++ b/src/specify_cli/events.py
@@ -677,7 +677,16 @@ def _resolve_event_command_argv(
         # subprocess.run(shell=False); invoke via `pwsh -File` (PowerShell 7+),
         # falling back to `powershell -File` (Windows PowerShell) when pwsh is
         # absent (S6). The default Windows script type would otherwise fail.
-        launcher = shutil.which("pwsh") or shutil.which("powershell") or "pwsh"
+        # When NEITHER is on PATH, degrade to "no argv" like every other
+        # failure branch in this resolver (and its documented stdlib mirror,
+        # the generated dispatcher's `_resolve_argv`) — a bare "pwsh" here
+        # would make subprocess.run() raise FileNotFoundError, surfacing as a
+        # confusing "[Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'pwsh'" instead of
+        # the clean "No script found for event command" the caller reports
+        # for a genuinely missing script.
+        launcher = shutil.which("pwsh") or shutil.which("powershell")
+        if not launcher:
+            return None
         return [launcher, "-File", str(script_abs), *rest_args]
 
     # sh: the script is chmod'd executable during install on POSIX. On Windows
diff --git a/tests/integrations/test_events.py b/tests/integrations/test_events.py
index f74aeaaa36..ba6deb12c0 100644
--- a/tests/integrations/test_events.py
+++ b/tests/integrations/test_events.py
@@ -1340,6 +1340,37 @@ def test_ps_variant_prefixed_with_powershell_launcher(self, tmp_path):
         assert argv[1] == "-File"
         assert PurePath(argv[2]).as_posix().endswith(".specify/scripts/powershell/boot.ps1")
 
+    def test_ps_variant_returns_none_when_no_launcher_available(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+        """When NEITHER pwsh nor powershell is on PATH, the resolver must
+        degrade to "no argv" like every other failure branch in this
+        function — not fall back to a bare "pwsh" string, which would make
+        subprocess.run() raise FileNotFoundError instead of the caller's
+        clean "No script found for event command" warning.
+
+        The generated dispatcher's documented stdlib mirror, `_resolve_argv`,
+        already does this correctly (`if not launcher: return None`).
+        """
+        from specify_cli.events import _resolve_event_command_argv
+        import shutil as _shutil
+
+        cmd_dir = tmp_path / ".specify" / "templates" / "commands"
+        cmd_dir.mkdir(parents=True)
+        (cmd_dir / "boot.md").write_text(
+            "---\n"
+            "description: \"Boot\"\n"
+            "scripts:\n"
+            "  ps: scripts/powershell/boot.ps1\n"
+            "---\nBody\n",
+            encoding="utf-8",
+        )
+        ps_dir = tmp_path / ".specify" / "scripts" / "powershell"
+        ps_dir.mkdir(parents=True)
+        (ps_dir / "boot.ps1").write_text("exit 0\n", encoding="utf-8")
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(_shutil, "which", lambda name: None)
+        argv = _resolve_event_command_argv(cmd_dir / "boot.md", tmp_path, None)
+        assert argv is None
+
     def test_run_command_executes_with_project_root_cwd(self, tmp_path):
         """R1: the event command runs with cwd set to the project root, not the
         caller's arbitrary working directory, so project-relative script logic