diff --git a/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/mcp/FleetMcpAuthzTest.java b/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/mcp/FleetMcpAuthzTest.java
index a8c9aa01..30fe48e6 100644
--- a/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/mcp/FleetMcpAuthzTest.java
+++ b/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/mcp/FleetMcpAuthzTest.java
@@ -473,35 +473,6 @@ class FleetMcpAuthzTest {
                         + "calling, not pass a literal boolean -- block: " + handlerBlock);
     }
 
-    /**
-     * {@code attributeIfObserver} can be correct in isolation while the one production call site
-     * never asks it -- a {@code str(a, "content")} left unwrapped would compile and every other
-     * test here would still pass. This reads {@code FleetMcp.java}'s own source and asserts the
-     * {@code fleet_send} handler's {@code content} assignment passes through
-     * {@code attributeIfObserver(caller, ...)}, not the raw argument.
-     */
-    @Test
-    void theSendHandlerActuallyAttributesAnObserversContent() throws Exception {
-        String source = Files.readString(MCP_SOURCE);
-
-        int start = source.indexOf("sendHandler =");
-        assertTrue(start >= 0, "could not find the fleet_send handler (sendHandler) in " + MCP_SOURCE
-                + " -- the scrape has stopped matching, fix the anchor before trusting this test");
-        int end = source.indexOf("replyHandler =", start);
-        assertTrue(end > start, "could not find the handler declared after sendHandler to bound the scrape");
-        String handlerBlock = source.substring(start, end);
-
-        // CONTROL: the block we scraped really does assign "content" from the request -- if this
-        // fails, the anchors above moved and the assertion below would otherwise pass on nothing.
-        assertTrue(handlerBlock.contains("str(a, \"content\")"),
-                "control failed: the scraped sendHandler block contains no content extraction at all -- "
-                        + "the anchors have drifted, this test is not testing what it claims to");
-
-        assertTrue(handlerBlock.contains("attributeIfObserver(caller, str(a, \"content\"))"),
-                "the fleet_send handler must assign content from attributeIfObserver(caller, ...), "
-                        + "not the raw request argument -- block: " + handlerBlock);
-    }
-
     // --- who may see fleet_list's leads and members arrays ---------------------------------------
 
     /**