diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7677af044..56d360ed8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,12 +12,12 @@
 
 ### Tests
 - `test/honesty-kernel.test.ts` no longer requires the Step 16 pointer. It now rejects any `Step <n>` cross-reference in the kernel, which every skill renders.
-- `test/resolver-ask-user-format.test.ts` checks across files that the unattended pointer names `unattended-session` and that gstack-skill-start really emits a block with that id, so renaming either side fails the test. It also checks that the failure fallback's `unattended` branch names destructive or irreversible options as pending. `test/auq-error-fallback-hook.test.ts` asserts the hook's unattended directive no longer says "Unattended session block".
+- `test/resolver-ask-user-format.test.ts` checks across files that the unattended pointer names `unattended-session` and that gstack-skill-start really emits a block with that id, so renaming either side fails the test. It also checks that the failure fallback's `unattended` branch names destructive or irreversible options as pending, and that the printed `unattended-session` block and the hook's unattended directive say the same. `test/auq-error-fallback-hook.test.ts` asserts the hook's unattended directive no longer says "Unattended session block".
 - `test/plan-reality.test.ts` checks that the reality-rows block, generated for each of the eng, ceo and devex phases, says its `gstack-plan-reality check` line prints `PLAN_REALITY`.
-- 89 pins in `test/fixtures/skill-md-size-allowlist.json` were moved to their new exact sizes. 78 went down by 3 characters. The 11 non-Claude plan-eng-review pins went up by 21: the unattended failure-fallback branch regains the destructive/irreversible carve-out that the removed pointer used to supply (about 21 chars). The /ship goldens were regenerated.
+- 89 pins in `test/fixtures/skill-md-size-allowlist.json` were moved to their new exact sizes. Every pinned skill gets the same net -3 characters, and that already includes 36 for the destructive/irreversible carve-out the unattended failure-fallback branch regains (the removed pointer used to supply it). So 78 pins went down by 3. The 11 non-Claude plan-eng-review pins also inline the 24-character "prints `PLAN_REALITY`" pointer from `review-sections.md`, so they went up by 21; without the carve-out they would have gone down by 15. The /ship goldens were regenerated.
 
 ### Gate integrity
-- No threshold, rubric, trial count, case kind or judge prompt changed. 78 size pins went down; 11 went up by 21 characters for the restored carve-out above.
+- No threshold, rubric, trial count, case kind or judge prompt changed. 78 size pins went down by 3; 11 went up by 21, because the restored 36-character carve-out outweighs what those pins had shed (see Tests).
 
 ## [1.91.230.0] - 2026-10-26
 
diff --git a/test/resolver-ask-user-format.test.ts b/test/resolver-ask-user-format.test.ts
index b41f7c8be..04c08b789 100644
--- a/test/resolver-ask-user-format.test.ts
+++ b/test/resolver-ask-user-format.test.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import * as path from 'path';
 import type { TemplateContext } from '../scripts/resolvers/types';
 import { HOST_PATHS } from '../scripts/resolvers/types';
 import { generateAskUserFormat } from '../scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format';
+import { directiveFor } from '../hosts/claude/hooks/auq-error-fallback-hook.ts';
 import { expectMentions, expectTokens } from './helpers/prompt-structure';
 
 function makeCtx(): TemplateContext {
@@ -379,3 +380,13 @@ describe('CQ3 — cross-file invariant: the unattended pointer names a block gst
     });
   }
 });
+
+describe('CQ4 — every unattended pending set names destructive or irreversible options', () => {
+  test('the printed unattended-session block and the hook directive agree with the resolver fallback', () => {
+    const startSrc = fs.readFileSync(path.resolve(__dirname, '..', 'bin', 'gstack-skill-start'), 'utf-8');
+    const block = /_emit_block unattended-session <<EOI\n([\s\S]*?)\nEOI/.exec(startSrc)?.[1] ?? '';
+    expect(block, 'gstack-skill-start must emit the unattended-session block').not.toBe('');
+    expectMentions(block, [['destructive', 'irreversible', 'pending']], 'unattended-session block');
+    expectMentions(directiveFor('unattended'), [['destructive', 'irreversible', 'pending']], 'hook unattended directive');
+  });
+});