diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a9d4f22e3..05dadd55d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 
 ### Tests
 - `test/factory-scorecard.test.ts`: the recorded window (`test/fixtures/factory-scorecard/recorded.json`) yields the expected merges, lead times, gate kinds and outcomes, artifact and comment cost sources, flake counts, free retries, issues and releases; a crew login list overrides the association rule; runs older than the window, non-dispatch events and draft releases are left out; the artifact cap leaves later runs without cost or flake data; a missing input marks only its lines unavailable; the markdown and CSV carry every row; gate classification, READY-marker matching, verdict-cost and flake-record parsing and nearest-rank percentiles; `--gate-event any` keeps non-dispatch runs; an empty window prints n/a instead of NaN; a failed merged-PR read leaves the gate rows standing; the bin end to end with `--fixtures`, `--crew`, `--out-dir`, `--csv`, `--ready-marker`, bad usage (including `--now`) and `--help`; the retro template pins the fence.
+- `test/host-conformance.test.ts` C3 ("--status names a symlinked router and a broken section link per host") deletes a named section (`scope.md`) instead of the first `.md` that `readdirSync` returns: two gstack-qa sections are referenced only in table form, which `setup --status` does not count as links, so on an ext4 directory order that listed one of them first the case failed deterministically on remote-gate VMs while passing on Actions (#3479).
 
 ## [1.91.246.0] - 2026-10-26
 
diff --git a/test/host-conformance.test.ts b/test/host-conformance.test.ts
index 6e7ea0f42..6b5b6569e 100644
--- a/test/host-conformance.test.ts
+++ b/test/host-conformance.test.ts
@@ -202,8 +202,7 @@ describe.skipIf(process.platform === 'win32')('host conformance kit', () => {
     const router = join(f.home, '.codex/skills/gstack/SKILL.md');
     rmSync(router);
     symlinkSync(join(src, '.agents/skills/gstack/SKILL.md'), router);
-    const qa = join(src, '.agents/skills/gstack-qa/sections');
-    rmSync(join(qa, readdirSync(qa).find(n => n.endsWith('.md'))!));
+    rmSync(join(src, '.agents/skills/gstack-qa/sections/scope.md'));
     const status = runSetup(f, join(src, 'setup'), ['--status']);
     // A1: broken section links make --status exit 1 instead of always 0.
     expect(status.status).toBe(1);