diff --git a/scripts/unlighthouse/chrome.ts b/scripts/unlighthouse/chrome.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7407eb3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/unlighthouse/chrome.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+import { chmodSync, mkdtempSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs'
+import { tmpdir } from 'node:os'
+import { join } from 'node:path'
+
+/**
+ * GitHub's ubuntu-24.04 runners disable unprivileged user namespaces via
+ * AppArmor, so Chrome aborts at launch ("No usable sandbox!"). Returns a shell
+ * wrapper that runs `chrome` with --no-sandbox, for use as CHROME_PATH /
+ * PUPPETEER_EXECUTABLE_PATH. Only used in CI, where the browser loads our own
+ * static build and nothing untrusted.
+ */
+export function noSandboxWrapper(chrome: string): string {
+    const dir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'voidflow-chrome-'))
+    const wrapper = join(dir, 'chrome-no-sandbox')
+    // Single-quote the path for sh; escape any embedded single quotes.
+    const quoted = `'${chrome.replaceAll("'", `'\\''`)}'`
+    writeFileSync(wrapper, `#!/bin/sh\nexec ${quoted} --no-sandbox "$@"\n`)
+    chmodSync(wrapper, 0o755)
+    return wrapper
+}
diff --git a/scripts/unlighthouse/run.ts b/scripts/unlighthouse/run.ts
index d20a03c..678cba2 100755
--- a/scripts/unlighthouse/run.ts
+++ b/scripts/unlighthouse/run.ts
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import { existsSync, readdirSync, statSync } from 'node:fs'
 import { homedir } from 'node:os'
 import { join, resolve } from 'node:path'
 import { parseArgs } from 'node:util'
+import { noSandboxWrapper } from './chrome.ts'
 
 const { values } = parseArgs({
     options: {
@@ -94,9 +95,21 @@ const site = `http://localhost:${server.port}`
 const chrome = findPlaywrightChromium()
 const env: Record<string, string | undefined> = { ...process.env }
 if (chrome) {
-    env.CHROME_PATH = chrome
-    env.PUPPETEER_EXECUTABLE_PATH = chrome
-    console.log(`Using Chromium: ${chrome}`)
+    // CI runners (ubuntu-24.04) can't create Chrome's sandbox; see chrome.ts.
+    // Set VOIDFLOW_CHROME_SANDBOX=1 to keep the sandbox on.
+    const launcher =
+        process.platform === 'linux' &&
+        process.env.CI &&
+        !process.env.VOIDFLOW_CHROME_SANDBOX
+            ? noSandboxWrapper(chrome)
+            : chrome
+    env.CHROME_PATH = launcher
+    env.PUPPETEER_EXECUTABLE_PATH = launcher
+    console.log(
+        launcher === chrome
+            ? `Using Chromium: ${chrome}`
+            : `Using Chromium: ${chrome} (--no-sandbox for CI)`,
+    )
 } else {
     console.log('No Playwright Chromium found; relying on system Chrome lookup.')
 }
diff --git a/test/unlighthouse-chrome.test.ts b/test/unlighthouse-chrome.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7fb67e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/unlighthouse-chrome.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+import { describe, expect, test } from 'bun:test'
+import { chmodSync, mkdtempSync, statSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs'
+import { tmpdir } from 'node:os'
+import { join } from 'node:path'
+import { noSandboxWrapper } from '../scripts/unlighthouse/chrome.ts'
+
+// A stand-in "chrome" that prints the arguments it receives.
+function fakeChrome(name = 'chrome') {
+    const dir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'voidflow-fake-'))
+    const bin = join(dir, name)
+    writeFileSync(bin, '#!/bin/sh\nfor a in "$@"; do echo "arg:$a"; done\n')
+    chmodSync(bin, 0o755)
+    return bin
+}
+
+async function run(bin: string, ...args: string[]) {
+    const proc = Bun.spawn([bin, ...args], { stdout: 'pipe' })
+    return (await new Response(proc.stdout).text()).trim().split('\n')
+}
+
+describe('noSandboxWrapper', () => {
+    test('is executable and runs chrome with --no-sandbox first', async () => {
+        const wrapper = noSandboxWrapper(fakeChrome())
+        expect(statSync(wrapper).mode & 0o111).not.toBe(0)
+        expect(await run(wrapper, '--headless', 'about:blank')).toEqual([
+            'arg:--no-sandbox',
+            'arg:--headless',
+            'arg:about:blank',
+        ])
+    })
+
+    test('handles chrome paths with spaces and quotes', async () => {
+        const wrapper = noSandboxWrapper(fakeChrome("Google Chrome 'x'"))
+        expect(await run(wrapper, '--flag')).toEqual(['arg:--no-sandbox', 'arg:--flag'])
+    })
+})