diff --git a/instadata/cli/app.py b/instadata/cli/app.py
index 70a6374..af16fb0 100644
--- a/instadata/cli/app.py
+++ b/instadata/cli/app.py
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
 
 [cyan]instadata whoami nasa --json[/cyan]
 
-Run [cyan]instagram COMMAND --help[/cyan] for a command's own options.
+Run [cyan]instadata COMMAND --help[/cyan] for a command's own options.
 """
 
 app = typer.Typer(
@@ -113,9 +113,14 @@ def _examples(*lines: str) -> str:
 
 
 def _version(value: bool) -> None:
-    """Print the version and exit, as an eager ``--version`` callback."""
+    """Print the version and exit, as an eager ``--version`` callback.
+
+    Plain ``print``, not the rich console: rich's highlighter colourises a
+    version string into ``\x1b[1;36m0.1\x1b[0m.\x1b[1;36m0\x1b[0m``, so
+    ``VERSION=$(instadata --version)`` would capture escape codes.
+    """
     if value:
-        console.print(__version__)
+        print(__version__)
         raise typer.Exit()
 
 
@@ -250,6 +255,16 @@ def execute(coro: Any) -> Any:
         _fail(exc)
 
 
+def emit_json(payload: Any) -> None:
+    """Write a machine-readable JSON document to stdout.
+
+    Plain ``print``, not ``console.print_json``: rich syntax-highlights JSON,
+    and under a colour-forcing terminal the escape codes make the output fail
+    to parse. ``--json`` exists to be piped, so it stays bytes-exact.
+    """
+    print(orjson.dumps(payload, option=orjson.OPT_INDENT_2).decode())
+
+
 def run(coro: Any, *, as_json: bool) -> None:
     """Run a scrape coroutine and render its report."""
     render(execute(coro), as_json=as_json)
@@ -269,7 +284,7 @@ def render(report: ScrapeReport, *, as_json: bool) -> None:
             "completed": report.completed,
             "failures": report.failures,
         }
-        console.print_json(orjson.dumps(payload).decode())
+        emit_json(payload)
         return
 
     table = Table(title=f"@{report.username}", show_header=False, box=None)
@@ -518,7 +533,7 @@ async def job() -> dict[str, Any]:
     payload = execute(job())
 
     if as_json:
-        console.print_json(orjson.dumps(payload).decode())
+        emit_json(payload)
         return
     table = Table(show_header=False, box=None)
     for key in ("user_id", "username", "full_name", "is_private", "media_count", "follower_count"):
diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
index 4158097..e63270c 100644
--- a/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/conftest.py
@@ -173,6 +173,22 @@ async def aclose(self) -> None:
         """No-op."""
 
 
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def _deterministic_rich_output(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
+    """Render help text plainly, whatever the surrounding environment.
+
+    rich enables colour when it detects CI, and typer styles option names, so
+    ``--proxy`` stops being a contiguous substring of the rendered help — the
+    assertions pass on a developer's machine and fail in GitHub Actions. Pin
+    colour off and the width wide so what the tests read is what the code
+    produced, not what the terminal happened to do to it.
+    """
+    monkeypatch.setenv("NO_COLOR", "1")
+    monkeypatch.setenv("TERM", "dumb")
+    monkeypatch.setenv("COLUMNS", "200")
+    monkeypatch.delenv("FORCE_COLOR", raising=False)
+
+
 @pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
 def _no_leaked_log_sinks() -> Any:
     """Drop any sink a test installed via ``configure_logging``.
diff --git a/tests/test_cli.py b/tests/test_cli.py
index 05aef0f..b1c447d 100644
--- a/tests/test_cli.py
+++ b/tests/test_cli.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import re
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any
 
@@ -20,6 +21,18 @@
 
 runner = CliRunner()
 
+_ANSI = re.compile(r"\x1b\[[0-9;]*m")
+
+
+def help_text(*args: str) -> str:
+    """Rendered help with styling removed.
+
+    rich colours option names when it detects a CI terminal, which splits
+    ``--proxy`` with escape sequences and breaks a plain substring check. The
+    tests care what the help says, not how the terminal painted it.
+    """
+    return _ANSI.sub("", runner.invoke(app, [*args, "--help"]).stdout)
+
 
 class FakeScraper:
     """Stand-in for :class:`InstagramScraper` recording how it was called."""
@@ -180,12 +193,12 @@ def test_highlights_command(self) -> None:
         assert FakeScraper.calls[0][1]["highlights"] is True
 
     def test_help_lists_every_command(self) -> None:
-        result = runner.invoke(app, ["--help"])
+        out = help_text()
         for command in ("profile", "post", "reel", "story", "highlights", "whoami"):
-            assert command in result.stdout
+            assert command in out
 
     def test_root_help_covers_capabilities_auth_and_examples(self) -> None:
-        out = runner.invoke(app, ["--help"]).stdout
+        out = help_text()
         for expected in (
             "What it downloads",
             "Session requirements",
@@ -199,20 +212,20 @@ def test_root_help_covers_capabilities_auth_and_examples(self) -> None:
     def test_help_documents_incremental_behaviour_and_its_escape_hatches(self) -> None:
         # This help went stale once already: it still described the pre-archive
         # design after the walk had been made incremental.
-        root = runner.invoke(app, ["--help"]).stdout
+        root = help_text()
         assert "Incremental" in root
         assert "metadata.jsonl" in root
         assert "--full" in root
         assert "--no-metadata" in root
 
-        profile_help = runner.invoke(app, ["profile", "--help"]).stdout
+        profile_help = help_text("profile")
         assert "--full" in profile_help
         assert "nothing new" in profile_help
 
     def test_no_metadata_flag_warns_that_it_disables_the_archive(self) -> None:
         # --no-metadata silently turns a 2-request re-check into a full walk;
         # that coupling has to be visible where the flag is documented.
-        out = runner.invoke(app, ["profile", "--help"]).stdout
+        out = help_text("profile")
         assert "archive" in out
 
     def test_help_text_carries_no_restructuredtext_markup(self) -> None:
@@ -220,20 +233,19 @@ def test_help_text_carries_no_restructuredtext_markup(self) -> None:
         # separate so ``literal`` markup never reaches a terminal.
         commands = ["profile", "post", "reel", "story", "highlights", "whoami"]
         for name in [None, *commands]:
-            args = ["--help"] if name is None else [name, "--help"]
-            assert "``" not in runner.invoke(app, args).stdout, name
+            assert "``" not in help_text(*([] if name is None else [name])), name
 
     @pytest.mark.parametrize(
         "command", ["profile", "post", "reel", "story", "highlights", "whoami"]
     )
     def test_every_command_help_shows_examples(self, command: str) -> None:
-        out = runner.invoke(app, [command, "--help"]).stdout
+        out = help_text(command)
         assert "Examples" in out
         assert "instadata " in out
 
     def test_whoami_accepts_a_proxy_like_every_other_command(self) -> None:
         # It was the one command that hardcoded proxy=None.
-        assert "--proxy" in runner.invoke(app, ["whoami", "--help"]).stdout
+        assert "--proxy" in help_text("whoami")
 
     def test_version_flag_prints_the_version(self) -> None:
         from instadata import __version__