diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index b7cf0ff..47a6c45 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ export KO_DOCKER_REPO := gcr.io/$(PROJECT_ID)/ate-images
 
 # Go commands
 GO := go
-KO := hack/ko.sh
+KO := hack/run-tool.sh ko
 
 # Binaries
 BINDIR := bin/
diff --git a/benchmarking/workloads/deploy.sh b/benchmarking/workloads/deploy.sh
index bcc9f78..1ea63d8 100755
--- a/benchmarking/workloads/deploy.sh
+++ b/benchmarking/workloads/deploy.sh
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ usage() {
 deploy() {
   echo "Deploying workloads..."
   sed "s|\${BUCKET_NAME}|${BUCKET_NAME}|g" "${MANIFEST_TEMPLATE}" \
-    | hack/ko.sh apply -f -
+    | hack/run-tool.sh ko apply -f -
 }
 
 delete() {
diff --git a/hack/install-ate.sh b/hack/install-ate.sh
index 2ad08ae..8e043e8 100755
--- a/hack/install-ate.sh
+++ b/hack/install-ate.sh
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ run_kubectl_ate() {
 }
 
 run_ko() {
-  ./hack/ko.sh \
+  ./hack/run-tool.sh ko \
     "$@" \
     -- ${KUBECTL_CONTEXT:+--context=${KUBECTL_CONTEXT}}
 }
diff --git a/hack/ko.sh b/hack/ko.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index bca7808..0000000
--- a/hack/ko.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-# Copyright 2026 Google LLC
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-set -o errexit -o nounset -o pipefail
-
-ROOT=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
-"${ROOT}"/hack/run-tool.sh ko "$@"