diff --git a/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/FleetdExhaustionDetectionArmedWiringTest.java b/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/FleetdExhaustionDetectionArmedWiringTest.java
index b11ff05..e1ddb29 100644
--- a/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/FleetdExhaustionDetectionArmedWiringTest.java
+++ b/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/FleetdExhaustionDetectionArmedWiringTest.java
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ import org.junit.jupiter.api.io.TempDir;
 
 import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertFalse;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
 
@@ -63,8 +65,30 @@ class FleetdExhaustionDetectionArmedWiringTest {
         assertTrue(config.get().profiles().get("terra").hasExhaustedPattern());
 
         FleetMcp.QuarantineSource source = Fleetd.quarantineSource(config, BackendQuarantine.none(),
-                java.util.Map.of());
+                Map.of());
         assertFalse(source.exhaustedPatternArmed().apply("terra"),
                 "exhaustionDetectionArmed must use the startup pattern map, not config.get()");
     }
+
+    @Test
+    @DisplayName("a profile in the startup pattern map is reported as armed")
+    void aProfileInTheStartupMapIsArmed(@TempDir Path dir) throws Exception {
+        // fleetd #404, second direction. The test above only ever passes an EMPTY startup map, so
+        // it cannot tell a correct lookup from one that is permanently off. Measured: replacing the
+        // armed lambda with `profile -> false` left the whole suite green at 1475 tests. That
+        // mutation would make #395's visibility feature dead — an operator fixing a detection gap
+        // would be told the gap is still open after fixing it, forever. Both directions are needed:
+        // this test is the only thing that fails when the field stops reporting armed at all.
+        Path file = dir.resolve("fleetd.yaml");
+        Files.writeString(file, WITH_PATTERN);
+        ConfigRef config = new ConfigRef(file, FleetConfig.load(file));
+
+        FleetMcp.QuarantineSource source = Fleetd.quarantineSource(config, BackendQuarantine.none(),
+                Map.of("terra", Pattern.compile("usage limit")));
+
+        assertTrue(source.exhaustedPatternArmed().apply("terra"),
+                "a profile whose pattern was compiled at startup must report armed");
+        assertFalse(source.exhaustedPatternArmed().apply("sonnet"),
+                "a profile absent from the startup map must not report armed");
+    }
 }