diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0373388a..e380b5df 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ Manual deploy (emergency/reference only — needs credentials for the
 external-dev AWS account; the normal path is push to `dev`):
 
 ```bash
-cd infra/cdk && npx cdk deploy
+(cd infra/cdk && npx cdk deploy)
 STACK_NAME=shoc-frontend-dev AWS_REGION=us-east-1 bash scripts/deploy-web.sh
 ```