diff --git a/benchmarks/push/freeze_source.sh b/benchmarks/push/freeze_source.sh
index a1802ee..d6c9b92 100755
--- a/benchmarks/push/freeze_source.sh
+++ b/benchmarks/push/freeze_source.sh
@@ -1,20 +1,31 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Export the COMMITTED source for a long measurement run, and prove the export is whole.
+# Export the COMMITTED source into a FRESH immutable directory, and prove the export is whole.
 #
 # Every long run here mounts src into a container. Mounting the working tree is a live mount: edits
 # made during a multi-hour run are picked up mid-run, and a measurement whose code changed underneath
 # it is not a measurement of anything -- the failure looks exactly like the thing being measured
 # failing. A five-hour PHP transfer replay was lost that way on 2026-09-22.
 #
-# And the export has to be checked. `git archive | tar -x` once produced a tree missing the whole
-# ontology (every tracked file after `groovy` alphabetically) and reported success, because tar's
-# status in a pipeline was never read. Every scan on that tree died at its first fact load and looked
-# like a slow run for fourteen minutes. So: archive to a file, extract, count against git.
+# The path is MINTED here, never taken from the caller, so a second freeze can never rm -rf a
+# directory a running container is mounting -- which happened once, deleting taint.sc out from under
+# a live scan and printing "no such cpg query" for every request after. Reuse is impossible by
+# construction: each call gets its own <base>/frozen-<commit>-<pid>-<n>.
 #
-# Usage: benchmarks/push/freeze_source.sh <dest-dir>   -> prints the frozen commit on success
+# The export is checked too. `git archive | tar -x` once produced a tree missing the whole ontology
+# (every tracked file after `groovy` alphabetically) and reported success, because tar's status in a
+# pipeline was never read. So: archive to a file, extract, count against git, require the ontology.
+#
+# Usage: DEST=$(benchmarks/push/freeze_source.sh <base-dir>)   -> prints the minted path on success
 set -euo pipefail
-dest="${1:?destination directory}"
-rm -rf "$dest" && mkdir -p "$dest"
+base="${1:?base directory}"
+mkdir -p "$base"
+commit=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)
+n=0
+while :; do
+  dest="$base/frozen-$commit-$$-$n"
+  if mkdir "$dest" 2>/dev/null; then break; fi
+  n=$((n + 1))
+done
 git archive HEAD src benchmarks > "$dest.tar"
 tar -xf "$dest.tar" -C "$dest"
 rm -f "$dest.tar"
@@ -25,4 +36,4 @@ if [ "$want" -ne "$have" ]; then
   exit 1
 fi
 test -d "$dest/src/openultrasast/ruleset/semantic" || { echo "export lacks the ontology" >&2; exit 1; }
-echo "$(git rev-parse --short HEAD) $have files"
+echo "$dest"