diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1dad4baaf..18116e276 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 ### 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 that item 1 states the unattended pending set with no section or block pointer (no "Unattended session block", no "per its printed"). It also checks that the failure fallback's `unattended` branch keeps destructive or irreversible options 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/resolver-ask-user-format.test.ts` checks that item 1 states the unattended pending set with no section or block pointer (no "Unattended session block", no "per its printed"). It also checks that the failure fallback's `unattended` branch keeps destructive or irreversible options pending, and that the hook's unattended directive says the same. `test/gstack-skill-start.test.ts` checks that the block gstack-skill-start actually prints keeps destructive or irreversible options pending for every skill it samples. `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 for the eng and ceo 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, and every pin went down. 78 went down by 62 characters. The 11 non-Claude plan-eng-review pins went down by 38, because they also inline the 24-character "prints `PLAN_REALITY`" pointer from `review-sections.md`. Both figures already include the destructive/irreversible carve-out the fallback branch keeps. The /ship goldens were regenerated.
 
diff --git a/test/gstack-skill-start.test.ts b/test/gstack-skill-start.test.ts
index 63f1f9999..8477a9d85 100644
--- a/test/gstack-skill-start.test.ts
+++ b/test/gstack-skill-start.test.ts
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import * as os from 'os';
 import * as path from 'path';
 import { generatePreamble } from '../scripts/resolvers/preamble';
 import { HOST_PATHS, type TemplateContext } from '../scripts/resolvers/types';
+import { expectMentions } from './helpers/prompt-structure';
 
 const ROOT = path.resolve(import.meta.dir, '..');
 const START = path.join(ROOT, 'bin', 'gstack-skill-start');
@@ -389,6 +390,7 @@ describe('gstack-skill-start behavior', () => {
     for (const text of Object.values(blocks)) {
       expect(text).not.toContain('skill=<name>');
       expect(text).toMatch(/never choose them/);
+      expectMentions(text, [['destructive', 'irreversible', 'pending']], 'printed unattended-session block');
       expect(text).toMatch(/never approve a gate/);
       expect(text).toMatch(/never publish, push, sync or send data off this machine/);
     }
diff --git a/test/resolver-ask-user-format.test.ts b/test/resolver-ask-user-format.test.ts
index 6777ed0a1..0be455295 100644
--- a/test/resolver-ask-user-format.test.ts
+++ b/test/resolver-ask-user-format.test.ts
@@ -219,6 +219,12 @@ describe('generateAskUserFormat — runtime-failure prose fallback', () => {
         ['destructive', 'irreversible', 'pending'],
         ['consent', 'unrecommended question', 'approval gate', 'pending'],
       ], `${skillName} unattended fallback branch`);
+      // Generated by /ship Step 7 coverage audit pass 1 (GSTA-91, PR #3421).
+      // Value: protects=the failure fallback's unattended branch states its rule with no pointer to a section the reader
+      // never sees; fails_when=the "(Unattended session block)" pointer returns to that branch; why_new=CQ3 reads item 1
+      // only and the hook test reads the hook only; seam=none; no_claim=model behaviour after an AUQ failure (unit only)
+      expect(unattended).not.toContain('Unattended session block');
+      expect(unattended).not.toContain('per its printed');
     }
   });
 
@@ -377,12 +383,8 @@ describe('CQ3 — Tool resolution item 1 states the unattended rule with no sect
   }
 });
 
-describe('CQ4 — the printed unattended-session block and the hook directive keep destructive or irreversible options pending', () => {
-  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');
+describe('CQ4 — the hook directive keeps destructive or irreversible options pending', () => {
+  test('directiveFor(unattended) names destructive or irreversible options as pending', () => {
     expectMentions(directiveFor('unattended'), [['destructive', 'irreversible', 'pending']], 'hook unattended directive');
   });
 });