diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 8767a67c..295ca830 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -492,6 +492,23 @@ Safe workflow:
 2. Only run `zig build test -Dupdate-goldens` when you've intentionally changed output (new feature, new test, changed formatting).
 3. After regenerating, review the diff (`git diff examples/expected/ issues/expected/`) to confirm no error messages or empty output were captured.
 
+**Scope a regen to specific examples with `-Dname`.** A *full* `-Dupdate-goldens`
+re-runs and rewrites all ~690 snapshots, so a single flaky/host-divergent example
+(AOT links, cross-arch `target` examples, anything that intermittently fails) can
+silently clobber a good snapshot. To capture just the example(s) you added, pass
+their full repo-relative `.sx` path(s), comma-separated — this rewrites ONLY those
+and touches nothing else:
+
+```sh
+zig build test -Dname=examples/0625-comptime-weld-struct-field.sx -Dupdate-goldens
+zig build test -Dname=examples/0625-foo.sx,examples/0626-bar.sx   # verify just these
+```
+
+`-Dname` also busts the test-run cache (the corpus enumerates `.sx`/`expected/`
+files at RUNTIME, so editing a snapshot alone does NOT force a re-run — a plain
+`zig build test` may be served a cached result). Changing `-Dname` — or any
+compiler source — forces a fresh run.
+
 ### Adding a new language feature
 
 There is no monolithic smoke file — each feature is its own focused example.
diff --git a/build.zig b/build.zig
index a43d7938..dfa95ca0 100644
--- a/build.zig
+++ b/build.zig
@@ -218,6 +218,20 @@ pub fn build(b: *std.Build) void {
         "Regenerate example/issue snapshots instead of verifying them (use with `zig build test`)",
     ) orelse false;
     corpus_opts.addOption(bool, "update_goldens", update_goldens);
+    // `zig build test -Dname=examples/0213-foo.sx[,examples/0214-bar.sx]` restricts
+    // the corpus runner to ONLY the named example(s) — full repo-relative `.sx`
+    // paths, comma-separated. Empty = run every example. Use it to verify or
+    // regenerate (-Dupdate-goldens) a specific example without re-running (or
+    // clobbering the snapshots of) the rest of the corpus. Because the value is
+    // baked into the corpus options module, changing it also busts the cached
+    // test-run result (the runner enumerates .sx/expected files at RUNTIME, so a
+    // bare snapshot edit alone would otherwise be served from cache).
+    const name_filter = b.option(
+        []const u8,
+        "name",
+        "Run only the named example(s): comma-separated repo-relative .sx paths (e.g. examples/0213-foo.sx)",
+    ) orelse "";
+    corpus_opts.addOption([]const u8, "name", name_filter);
     mod.addOptions("corpus_paths", corpus_opts);
 
     const mod_tests = b.addTest(.{
diff --git a/src/corpus_run.test.zig b/src/corpus_run.test.zig
index 103284b1..b03a1410 100644
--- a/src/corpus_run.test.zig
+++ b/src/corpus_run.test.zig
@@ -160,6 +160,21 @@ fn readOptional(io: std.Io, gpa: std.mem.Allocator, abs_path: []const u8) ?[]u8
     return std.Io.Dir.readFileAlloc(.cwd(), io, abs_path, gpa, .limited(MAX_OUTPUT)) catch null;
 }
 
+/// True when `rel_path` (a repo-relative `.sx` path like `examples/0213-foo.sx`)
+/// matches the `-Dname` filter — a comma-separated list of full `.sx` paths.
+/// Each entry is whitespace-trimmed and a leading `./` is ignored, so both
+/// `examples/0213-foo.sx` and `./examples/0213-foo.sx` match.
+fn nameMatchesFilter(filter: []const u8, rel_path: []const u8) bool {
+    var it = std.mem.splitScalar(u8, filter, ',');
+    while (it.next()) |raw| {
+        var entry = std.mem.trim(u8, raw, " \t\r\n");
+        if (std.mem.startsWith(u8, entry, "./")) entry = entry[2..];
+        if (entry.len == 0) continue;
+        if (std.mem.eql(u8, entry, rel_path)) return true;
+    }
+    return false;
+}
+
 /// Per-example build/run directives, parsed from an optional `<name>.build`
 /// JSON sidecar (replaces the old standalone `.aot` marker). Output snapshots
 /// (.exit/.stdout/.stderr/.ir) stay separate — they are regenerated data, not
@@ -281,6 +296,14 @@ fn sweepRoot(
         _ = work_state.reset(.retain_capacity);
         const a = work_state.allocator();
 
+        // `-Dname=<paths>` filter: when set, run ONLY the named example(s) (full
+        // repo-relative `.sx` paths, comma-separated). A non-matching example is
+        // dropped silently — not counted as ran or skipped.
+        if (corpus_paths.name.len > 0) {
+            const this_rel = try std.fmt.allocPrint(a, "{s}/{s}.sx", .{ root_base, name });
+            if (!nameMatchesFilter(corpus_paths.name, this_rel)) continue;
+        }
+
         const sx_abs = try std.fs.path.join(a, &.{ root_dir, try std.fmt.allocPrint(a, "{s}.sx", .{name}) });
         std.Io.Dir.access(.cwd(), io, sx_abs, .{}) catch { // marker without source
             skipped += 1;