diff --git a/src/com/facebook/buck/cxx/CxxInferCaptureRule.java b/src/com/facebook/buck/cxx/CxxInferCaptureRule.java
index 182d886c86d..467dd29a81e 100644
--- a/src/com/facebook/buck/cxx/CxxInferCaptureRule.java
+++ b/src/com/facebook/buck/cxx/CxxInferCaptureRule.java
@@ -209,6 +209,7 @@ protected ImmutableList<String> getShellCommandInternal(
                   //    that gets shipped as input to a RE job
                   .addAll(inferPlatform.getInferBin().getCommandPrefix(sourcePathResolver))
                   .add("capture")
+                  .add("--buck")
                   .add(
                       "--results-dir",
                       toAbsNormalizedPath(