diff --git a/docs/benchmarks/performance/README.md b/docs/benchmarks/performance/README.md
index b6fc3b6316..c7e783c1b9 100644
--- a/docs/benchmarks/performance/README.md
+++ b/docs/benchmarks/performance/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ the on-disk and one-turn tables there came from other means, and `METHOD-REVIEW.
 records what is and is not documented about them.
 
 ```bash
-WORKDIR=$PWD docs/benchmarks/measure-cli.sh codeaf /tmp/bench-home/codeaf ./bin/codeaf chat
+WORKDIR=$PWD docs/benchmarks/performance/measure-cli.sh codeaf /tmp/bench-home/codeaf ./bin/codeaf chat
 ```
 
 Run it once per CLI, on the same machine, in the same working directory, within the same
diff --git a/docs/benchmarks/performance/doc_paths_test.go b/docs/benchmarks/performance/doc_paths_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..51f91d5a12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/benchmarks/performance/doc_paths_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+package performance_test
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"regexp"
+	"runtime"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+var localScriptExample = regexp.MustCompile(`(?:docs|scripts)/[A-Za-z0-9_./-]+\.sh`)
+
+func TestDocumentedScriptPathsResolve(t *testing.T) {
+	_, source, _, ok := runtime.Caller(0)
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatal("could not locate test source")
+	}
+	root := filepath.Clean(filepath.Join(filepath.Dir(source), "..", "..", ".."))
+
+	for _, document := range []string{"README.md", "measure-cli.sh"} {
+		t.Run(document, func(t *testing.T) {
+			path := filepath.Join(root, "docs", "benchmarks", "performance", document)
+			contents, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			matches := localScriptExample.FindAllString(string(contents), -1)
+			if len(matches) == 0 {
+				t.Fatal("no local script examples found")
+			}
+
+			for _, example := range matches {
+				scriptPath := filepath.Join(root, filepath.FromSlash(example))
+				if _, err := os.Stat(scriptPath); err != nil {
+					t.Errorf("documented script %q does not resolve: %v", example, err)
+				}
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
diff --git a/docs/benchmarks/performance/measure-cli.sh b/docs/benchmarks/performance/measure-cli.sh
index 3a26cb5688..16c6529f1f 100755
--- a/docs/benchmarks/performance/measure-cli.sh
+++ b/docs/benchmarks/performance/measure-cli.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #
 # From the root of a real repository:
 #
-#   WORKDIR=$PWD docs/benchmarks/measure-cli.sh mine /tmp/bench-home/mine bin/mine chat
+#   WORKDIR=$PWD docs/benchmarks/performance/measure-cli.sh mine /tmp/bench-home/mine bin/mine chat
 #
 # <name> only labels the output, the tmux session and the run; nothing about the
 # CLI is inferred from it. <home> is the profile the CLI runs under — an
diff --git a/docs/changes/unreleased/1498-measure-cli-path.md b/docs/changes/unreleased/1498-measure-cli-path.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e63715cc20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/changes/unreleased/1498-measure-cli-path.md
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+---
+kind: fixed
+title: benchmark examples use the script's current path
+pr: 1498
+# Optional. Which part of the repository this touches, so a reader can skip it.
+# One or more of: build, chat, docs, engine, remote, resident
+surface: [docs]
+# Optional, and the reason this file exists. Every statement that WAS true and is
+# not any more, written whole: what it was, and what it is now. A model reading
+# this has to be able to check its own memory against it, so "branch names" is
+# useless and "the trunk was chat-v3-task and no longer exists; work goes to dev"
+# is the whole point. Leave the list empty if nothing anybody believed changed.
+invalidates:
+  - "The examples pointed to `docs/benchmarks/measure-cli.sh`, which does not exist; use `docs/benchmarks/performance/measure-cli.sh`."
+---