diff --git a/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/lead/LeadContextGaugeHighThresholdTest.java b/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/lead/LeadContextGaugeHighThresholdTest.java
index b59b34d2..cb964da9 100644
--- a/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/lead/LeadContextGaugeHighThresholdTest.java
+++ b/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/lead/LeadContextGaugeHighThresholdTest.java
@@ -81,12 +81,6 @@ class LeadContextGaugeHighThresholdTest {
         assertEquals(LeadContextGauge.State.HIGH,
                 atGauge.read(atConfigDir, SESSION_ID, "claude", null).state(),
                 "the fixed default must still be 200,000 when no window is resolvable");
-
-        String legacyConfigDir = writeTranscript(tmp.resolve("legacy"), SESSION_ID, 200_000);
-        LeadContextGauge legacyGauge = new LeadContextGauge();
-        assertEquals(LeadContextGauge.State.HIGH,
-                legacyGauge.read(legacyConfigDir, SESSION_ID, "claude", null).state(),
-                "the 3-arg read() (no window argument at all) must behave exactly like passing a null window");
     }
 
     @Test