diff --git a/src/agentsight/src/bin/cli/audit.rs b/src/agentsight/src/bin/cli/audit.rs
index 37b09686..fccba5fc 100644
--- a/src/agentsight/src/bin/cli/audit.rs
+++ b/src/agentsight/src/bin/cli/audit.rs
@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ pub struct AuditCommand {
     /// Show summary statistics
     #[structopt(long)]
     pub summary: bool,
+
+    /// Hide process_action events whose command/args contain any of these
+    /// substrings. Repeatable. Useful for filtering shell-startup noise, e.g.
+    /// `--exclude "command -v" --exclude grepconf`. The hidden count is reported.
+    #[structopt(long)]
+    pub exclude: Vec<String>,
 }
 
 impl AuditCommand {
@@ -44,9 +50,17 @@ impl AuditCommand {
             }
         };
 
-        let event_type = self.event_type.as_ref().and_then(|t| t.parse::<AuditEventType>().ok());
+        let event_type = self
+            .event_type
+            .as_ref()
+            .and_then(|t| t.parse::<AuditEventType>().ok());
 
         if self.summary {
+            if !self.exclude.is_empty() {
+                eprintln!(
+                    "Note: --exclude is not applied to --summary (summary always reflects the full dataset)."
+                );
+            }
             self.print_summary(&store);
             return;
         }
@@ -75,25 +89,67 @@ impl AuditCommand {
         }
     }
 
+    fn is_excluded(&self, record: &agentsight::AuditRecord) -> bool {
+        use agentsight::AuditExtra;
+        if self.exclude.is_empty() {
+            return false;
+        }
+        if let AuditExtra::ProcessAction { filename, args, .. } = &record.extra {
+            let fname = filename.as_deref().unwrap_or("");
+            let a = args.as_deref().unwrap_or("");
+            return self
+                .exclude
+                .iter()
+                .filter(|p| !p.trim().is_empty())
+                .any(|p| fname.contains(p.as_str()) || a.contains(p.as_str()));
+        }
+        false
+    }
+
     fn output_records(&self, records: &[agentsight::AuditRecord], scope: &str) {
+        let total = records.len();
+        let filtered: Vec<&agentsight::AuditRecord> =
+            records.iter().filter(|r| !self.is_excluded(r)).collect();
+        let hidden = total - filtered.len();
+
         if self.json {
-            let json_records: Vec<serde_json::Value> = records.iter().map(|r| {
-                serde_json::json!({
-                    "id": r.id,
-                    "event_type": r.event_type.to_string(),
-                    "timestamp_ns": r.timestamp_ns,
-                    "pid": r.pid,
-                    "ppid": r.ppid,
-                    "comm": r.comm,
-                    "duration_ns": r.duration_ns,
-                    "extra": r.extra,
+            let json_records: Vec<serde_json::Value> = filtered
+                .iter()
+                .map(|r| {
+                    serde_json::json!({
+                        "id": r.id,
+                        "event_type": r.event_type.to_string(),
+                        "timestamp_ns": r.timestamp_ns,
+                        "pid": r.pid,
+                        "ppid": r.ppid,
+                        "comm": r.comm,
+                        "duration_ns": r.duration_ns,
+                        "extra": r.extra,
+                    })
                 })
-            }).collect();
+                .collect();
             println!("{}", serde_json::to_string_pretty(&json_records).unwrap());
+            if hidden > 0 {
+                eprintln!(
+                    "{} events hidden by --exclude ({} shown, {} total)",
+                    hidden,
+                    filtered.len(),
+                    total
+                );
+            }
         } else {
-            println!("{}: {} audit events", scope, records.len());
+            if hidden > 0 {
+                println!(
+                    "{}: {} audit events ({} hidden by --exclude)",
+                    scope,
+                    filtered.len(),
+                    hidden
+                );
+            } else {
+                println!("{}: {} audit events", scope, filtered.len());
+            }
             println!();
-            for record in records {
+            for record in &filtered {
                 let json_record = serde_json::json!({
                     "id": record.id,
                     "event_type": record.event_type.to_string(),