diff --git a/test/carve-section-sharding.test.ts b/test/carve-section-sharding.test.ts
index e5710c166..ea89b6016 100644
--- a/test/carve-section-sharding.test.ts
+++ b/test/carve-section-sharding.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { describe, expect, test } from 'bun:test';
 import * as fs from 'node:fs';
+import * as os from 'node:os';
 import * as path from 'node:path';
 import { CARVE_GUARDS } from './helpers/carve-guards';
 import { isPaidTestFile } from './helpers/paid-test-set';
@@ -42,3 +43,95 @@ describe('carved-skill cases each get a complete paid process budget', () => {
     expect(() => selectPaidTestFiles(discovered, 'periodic', root, { GSTACK_CARVE_SKILL: 'typo' })).toThrow('no generic section-loading wrapper');
   });
 });
+
+describe('design-consultation section completion (census 36641820398 slice 8)', () => {
+const DC_ROOT = path.resolve(import.meta.dir, '..');
+// DESIGN.md content from the Write call of the census 36641820398 slice 8
+// design-consultation capture. That run Read its section at 11s and wrote
+// DESIGN.md and CLAUDE.md, then timed out composing the duplicate REPORT.md
+// the generic fixture requested.
+const designConsultationMd = fs.readFileSync(path.join(import.meta.dir, 'fixtures/design-consultation-section-design-md.md'), 'utf8');
+const genericReport = '# Design report\n' + 'The design review summary is complete. '.repeat(8);
+
+interface Fixture {
+  output?: string;
+  file?: 'DESIGN.md' | 'REPORT.md' | null;
+  exitReason?: string;
+  missingRead?: boolean;
+}
+
+// Run the actual paid registration and capture helper in an isolated free
+// child; only the session-runner/provider boundary is replaced.
+function exercise(fixture: Fixture = {}) {
+  const dir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'design-consultation-completion-'));
+  const script = path.join(dir, 'capture.test.ts');
+  const facts = path.join(dir, 'facts.json');
+  const input = { output: designConsultationMd, file: 'DESIGN.md', exitReason: 'success', missingRead: false, ...fixture };
+  fs.writeFileSync(script, `
+import { expect, mock } from 'bun:test';
+import * as fs from 'node:fs';
+import * as path from 'node:path';
+import { CARVE_GUARDS } from ${JSON.stringify(path.join(DC_ROOT, 'test/helpers/carve-guards.ts'))};
+const input = ${JSON.stringify(input)};
+const guard = CARVE_GUARDS['design-consultation'];
+mock.module(${JSON.stringify(path.join(DC_ROOT, 'test/helpers/session-runner.ts'))}, () => ({
+  runSkillTest: async opts => {
+    fs.writeFileSync(${JSON.stringify(facts)}, JSON.stringify({ prompt: opts.prompt, timeout: opts.timeout, allowedTools: opts.allowedTools }));
+    if (input.file) fs.writeFileSync(path.join(opts.workingDirectory, input.file), input.output);
+    return {
+      exitReason: input.exitReason, output: 'Wrote DESIGN.md and CLAUDE.md.',
+      toolCalls: input.missingRead ? [] : guard.requiredReads.map(section => ({
+        tool: 'Read', input: { file_path: path.join(opts.workingDirectory, 'design-consultation', 'sections', section) },
+      })), transcript: [],
+    };
+  },
+}));
+const { registerCarveSectionCase } = await import(${JSON.stringify(path.join(DC_ROOT, 'test/helpers/carve-section-case.ts'))});
+registerCarveSectionCase('design-consultation');
+`);
+  try {
+    const child = Bun.spawnSync([process.execPath, 'test', script], {
+      cwd: DC_ROOT,
+      env: {
+        PATH: process.env.PATH ?? '', HOME: dir, TMPDIR: dir, TEMP: dir, TMP: dir,
+        ...(process.env.SystemRoot ? { SystemRoot: process.env.SystemRoot } : {}),
+      },
+      timeout: 10_000,
+    });
+    expect(fs.existsSync(facts), child.stderr.toString()).toBe(true);
+    expect(child.signalCode ?? null).toBeNull();
+    return { code: child.exitCode, output: child.stdout.toString() + child.stderr.toString(),
+      facts: JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(facts, 'utf8')) as { prompt: string; timeout: number; allowedTools: string[] } };
+  } finally {
+    fs.rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  }
+}
+
+test('the captured DESIGN.md is the completed output; no duplicate report is requested', () => {
+  expect(designConsultationMd.split('\n')[1]).toBe('# gstack: design-md-format=spec');
+  const result = exercise();
+  expect(result.code, result.output).toBe(0);
+  expect(result.facts.timeout).toBe(480_000);
+  expect(result.facts.prompt).toContain('declined the optional outside design voices');
+  expect(result.facts.prompt).toMatch(/write the skill's final output[^\n]*DESIGN\.md/);
+  expect(result.facts.prompt).not.toContain('REPORT.md');
+}, 20_000);
+
+test('the census timeout still fails even after DESIGN.md was written', () => {
+  expect(exercise({ exitReason: 'timeout' }).code).not.toBe(0);
+}, 20_000);
+
+test('a generic report without the DESIGN.md format marker does not count as completion', () => {
+  expect(exercise({ output: genericReport }).code).not.toBe(0);
+  expect(exercise({ output: genericReport, file: 'REPORT.md' }).code).not.toBe(0);
+});
+
+test('a terminal-only claim without writing DESIGN.md fails', () => {
+  expect(exercise({ file: null }).code).not.toBe(0);
+}, 20_000);
+
+test('skipping the section Read fails', () => {
+  expect(exercise({ missingRead: true }).code).not.toBe(0);
+}, 20_000);
+
+});
diff --git a/test/design-consultation-section-completion.test.ts b/test/design-consultation-section-completion.test.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 1439056f0..000000000
--- a/test/design-consultation-section-completion.test.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,93 +0,0 @@
-import { expect, test } from 'bun:test';
-import * as fs from 'node:fs';
-import * as os from 'node:os';
-import * as path from 'node:path';
-
-const ROOT = path.resolve(import.meta.dir, '..');
-// DESIGN.md content from the Write call of the census 36641820398 slice 8
-// design-consultation capture. That run Read its section at 11s and wrote
-// DESIGN.md and CLAUDE.md, then timed out composing the duplicate REPORT.md
-// the generic fixture requested.
-const designMd = fs.readFileSync(path.join(import.meta.dir, 'fixtures/design-consultation-section-design-md.md'), 'utf8');
-const genericReport = '# Design report\n' + 'The design review summary is complete. '.repeat(8);
-
-interface Fixture {
-  output?: string;
-  file?: 'DESIGN.md' | 'REPORT.md' | null;
-  exitReason?: string;
-  missingRead?: boolean;
-}
-
-// Run the actual paid registration and capture helper in an isolated free
-// child; only the session-runner/provider boundary is replaced.
-function exercise(fixture: Fixture = {}) {
-  const dir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'design-consultation-completion-'));
-  const script = path.join(dir, 'capture.test.ts');
-  const facts = path.join(dir, 'facts.json');
-  const input = { output: designMd, file: 'DESIGN.md', exitReason: 'success', missingRead: false, ...fixture };
-  fs.writeFileSync(script, `
-import { expect, mock } from 'bun:test';
-import * as fs from 'node:fs';
-import * as path from 'node:path';
-import { CARVE_GUARDS } from ${JSON.stringify(path.join(ROOT, 'test/helpers/carve-guards.ts'))};
-const input = ${JSON.stringify(input)};
-const guard = CARVE_GUARDS['design-consultation'];
-mock.module(${JSON.stringify(path.join(ROOT, 'test/helpers/session-runner.ts'))}, () => ({
-  runSkillTest: async opts => {
-    fs.writeFileSync(${JSON.stringify(facts)}, JSON.stringify({ prompt: opts.prompt, timeout: opts.timeout, allowedTools: opts.allowedTools }));
-    if (input.file) fs.writeFileSync(path.join(opts.workingDirectory, input.file), input.output);
-    return {
-      exitReason: input.exitReason, output: 'Wrote DESIGN.md and CLAUDE.md.',
-      toolCalls: input.missingRead ? [] : guard.requiredReads.map(section => ({
-        tool: 'Read', input: { file_path: path.join(opts.workingDirectory, 'design-consultation', 'sections', section) },
-      })), transcript: [],
-    };
-  },
-}));
-const { registerCarveSectionCase } = await import(${JSON.stringify(path.join(ROOT, 'test/helpers/carve-section-case.ts'))});
-registerCarveSectionCase('design-consultation');
-`);
-  try {
-    const child = Bun.spawnSync([process.execPath, 'test', script], {
-      cwd: ROOT,
-      env: {
-        PATH: process.env.PATH ?? '', HOME: dir, TMPDIR: dir, TEMP: dir, TMP: dir,
-        ...(process.env.SystemRoot ? { SystemRoot: process.env.SystemRoot } : {}),
-      },
-      timeout: 10_000,
-    });
-    expect(fs.existsSync(facts), child.stderr.toString()).toBe(true);
-    expect(child.signalCode ?? null).toBeNull();
-    return { code: child.exitCode, output: child.stdout.toString() + child.stderr.toString(),
-      facts: JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(facts, 'utf8')) as { prompt: string; timeout: number; allowedTools: string[] } };
-  } finally {
-    fs.rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
-  }
-}
-
-test('the captured DESIGN.md is the completed output; no duplicate report is requested', () => {
-  expect(designMd.split('\n')[1]).toBe('# gstack: design-md-format=spec');
-  const result = exercise();
-  expect(result.code, result.output).toBe(0);
-  expect(result.facts.timeout).toBe(480_000);
-  expect(result.facts.prompt).toContain('declined the optional outside design voices');
-  expect(result.facts.prompt).toMatch(/write the skill's final output[^\n]*DESIGN\.md/);
-  expect(result.facts.prompt).not.toContain('REPORT.md');
-}, 20_000);
-
-test('the census timeout still fails even after DESIGN.md was written', () => {
-  expect(exercise({ exitReason: 'timeout' }).code).not.toBe(0);
-}, 20_000);
-
-test('a generic report without the DESIGN.md format marker does not count as completion', () => {
-  expect(exercise({ output: genericReport }).code).not.toBe(0);
-  expect(exercise({ output: genericReport, file: 'REPORT.md' }).code).not.toBe(0);
-});
-
-test('a terminal-only claim without writing DESIGN.md fails', () => {
-  expect(exercise({ file: null }).code).not.toBe(0);
-}, 20_000);
-
-test('skipping the section Read fails', () => {
-  expect(exercise({ missingRead: true }).code).not.toBe(0);
-}, 20_000);