diff --git a/crates/aura-cli/src/main.rs b/crates/aura-cli/src/main.rs
index 5f316e9..b6c28ce 100644
--- a/crates/aura-cli/src/main.rs
+++ b/crates/aura-cli/src/main.rs
@@ -467,10 +467,12 @@ fn build_comparison_chart_data(
 /// run has no such tap (refuse-don't-guess). Used by the `--tap` flag on the
 /// single-run chart path; without `--tap` the single-run page is unchanged.
 fn filter_to_tap(data: ChartData, tap: &str) -> Result<ChartData, String> {
-    let series: Vec<Series> = data.series.into_iter().filter(|s| s.name == tap).collect();
-    if series.is_empty() {
-        return Err(format!("run has no tap named '{tap}'"));
+    if !data.series.iter().any(|s| s.name == tap) {
+        // List the valid taps so the user can correct a typo (#131) — refuse, but help.
+        let available: Vec<&str> = data.series.iter().map(|s| s.name.as_str()).collect();
+        return Err(format!("run has no tap named '{tap}' (available: {})", available.join(", ")));
     }
+    let series: Vec<Series> = data.series.into_iter().filter(|s| s.name == tap).collect();
     let mut meta = data.meta;
     meta.taps = vec![tap.to_string()];
     Ok(ChartData { xs: data.xs, series, meta })
@@ -1966,6 +1968,13 @@ fn main() {
     // so an unexpected trailing token falls through to the usage-error path rather
     // than masquerading as a successful run (#16 strict reading).
     let args: Vec<String> = std::env::args().skip(1).collect();
+    // A `--help` / `-h` anywhere prints usage to stdout and exits 0, uniformly across
+    // subcommands (#131): `aura chart --help` shows usage instead of erroring
+    // "unexpected argument", and the bare `aura --help` is the same affordance.
+    if args.iter().any(|a| a == "--help" || a == "-h") {
+        println!("{USAGE}");
+        return;
+    }
     match args.iter().map(String::as_str).collect::<Vec<_>>().as_slice() {
         ["run", rest @ ..] => match parse_run_args(rest) {
             Ok(args) => match run_dispatch(args) {
@@ -2012,7 +2021,6 @@ fn main() {
         ["runs", "families"] => runs_families(),
         ["runs", "family", id] => runs_family(id, None),
         ["runs", "family", id, "rank", metric] => runs_family(id, Some(metric)),
-        ["--help"] | ["-h"] => println!("{USAGE}"),
         _ => {
             eprintln!("aura: {USAGE}");
             std::process::exit(2);
diff --git a/crates/aura-cli/tests/cli_run.rs b/crates/aura-cli/tests/cli_run.rs
index b92d485..c155268 100644
--- a/crates/aura-cli/tests/cli_run.rs
+++ b/crates/aura-cli/tests/cli_run.rs
@@ -489,6 +489,12 @@ fn chart_tap_nonexistent_on_run_refuses_with_exit_2() {
         stderr.contains("run has no tap named 'nope'"),
         "expected the no-such-tap refusal message, got: {stderr}"
     );
+    // #131: the refusal lists the valid taps so the user can correct the typo
+    // (the demo run's taps are `equity` and `exposure`).
+    assert!(
+        stderr.contains("available:") && stderr.contains("equity") && stderr.contains("exposure"),
+        "the refusal should enumerate the available taps, got: {stderr}"
+    );
 
     let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&cwd);
 }
@@ -557,6 +563,36 @@ fn help_flag_prints_usage_to_stdout_and_exits_zero() {
     );
 }
 
+/// Property (#131): `--help`/`-h` is UNIFORM across subcommands — `aura <sub> --help`
+/// prints usage to stdout and exits 0 for every subcommand, not only the bare `aura
+/// --help`. Pre-fix, `aura chart --help` errored with "unexpected chart argument"
+/// (exit 2) while `aura run --help` leaked usage to stderr; this pins the uniform
+/// success-path help affordance for all subcommands.
+#[test]
+fn per_subcommand_help_is_uniform_stdout_exit_zero() {
+    for sub in ["run", "chart", "sweep", "walkforward", "mc", "graph", "runs"] {
+        for flag in ["--help", "-h"] {
+            let out = Command::new(BIN).args([sub, flag]).output().expect("spawn aura <sub> --help");
+            assert_eq!(
+                out.status.code(),
+                Some(0),
+                "`aura {sub} {flag}` should exit 0, got: {:?}",
+                out.status
+            );
+            let stdout = String::from_utf8(out.stdout).expect("utf-8 stdout");
+            assert!(
+                stdout.contains("usage"),
+                "`aura {sub} {flag}` should print usage to stdout, got: {stdout:?}"
+            );
+            assert!(
+                out.stderr.is_empty(),
+                "`aura {sub} {flag}` should not write to stderr, got: {:?}",
+                String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stderr)
+            );
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 /// Property: `aura graph` emits a single self-contained HTML page — the
 /// interactive pin-graph viewer with the deterministic model inlined and the
 /// vendored Graphviz-WASM + pan-zoom inlined (no remote fetch). Driven through