diff --git a/.config/hooks/post-checkout b/.config/hooks/post-checkout
index a637ad9c6..660157cd2 100755
--- a/.config/hooks/post-checkout
+++ b/.config/hooks/post-checkout
@@ -16,6 +16,17 @@
 # rows mid-checkout — those could otherwise leak onto the wrong branch when a later
 # switch rebuilds by replaying the working-tree changelog.
 if [ "${3:-0}" = "1" ] && [ "$1" != "$2" ] && command -v pql >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-    pql plan rebuild >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
-    pql decisions sync >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+    # Resolve the vault to THIS checkout explicitly. pql otherwise finds the vault
+    # by walking up for a `.git` *directory* — but a linked worktree's `.git` is a
+    # *file*, so a bare `pql` invoked from a worktree resolves to the MAIN checkout
+    # and rebuilds main's pql.db, leaving the worktree's own empty (the symptom that
+    # broke ticket/decision reads inside worktrees). `git rev-parse --show-toplevel`
+    # returns this worktree's root; on the main checkout it is the repo root, so
+    # this is a no-op there and a correctness fix in worktrees. (Upstream pql bug —
+    # ~/Projects/pql/feature-request.md FR-4; drop the --vault once it lands.)
+    vault="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null)"
+    if [ -n "$vault" ]; then
+        pql --vault "$vault" plan rebuild >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+        pql --vault "$vault" decisions sync >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+    fi
 fi