diff --git a/src/v2/test/claim/coercion/identity_cast_emission_route_test.dag b/src/v2/test/claim/coercion/identity_cast_emission_route_test.dag
index 004f4d2237a..3306e95285b 100644
--- a/src/v2/test/claim/coercion/identity_cast_emission_route_test.dag
+++ b/src/v2/test/claim/coercion/identity_cast_emission_route_test.dag
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import std.optional { Absent }
 import v2.compiler.self_host.closure_emission {
   ClosureEmissionLocated, ClosureMemberEmitted, ClosureMemberRefused, emit_closure_from_ingest_located,
 }
+import v2.compiler.target_carriers { emit_module_decl_separator }
 import v2.compiler.source_authority { DagSourceReadWitness }
 import v2.extdeps.languages.dag { dag_type_atom_node }
 import v2.extdeps.languages.rust { rust_target_model }
@@ -28,12 +29,14 @@ data live_tree_disposition: LiveTreeDisposition = SubstrateInputsOnly
 // section 3). Two inhabitance rows still drive the door on this module, on the required gate.
 // gunbc.rung_drop identity_cast_route_new_witness_eval_step_cost retired when those inhabitance
 // identities billed inside the new-witness eval-step budget on gunbc#13489 required floor run
-// 37522243686 (artifact required-floor-claim-cost). The native partner builds and runs the emitted
-// text; it is not the last execution of the door.
+// 37522243686 (artifact required-floor-claim-cost). Native builds the same member text this
+// inhabitance asserts by exact equality.
 data identity_cast_source: String = "module v2.test.identity_cast\n\nfn f(x: Int) -> Int { x as Int }\n"
 
 data refused_cast_source: String = "module v2.test.identity_cast\n\nfn f(x: Int) -> Bool { x as Bool }\n"
 
+data identity_cast_supplied_emitted_text: String = concat("fn f(x: i32) -> i32 { x }", emit_module_decl_separator)
+
 type IdentityCastRouteVerdict
   = IdentityCastEntryEmitted { text: String, members: Int }
   | IdentityCastEntryRefused { reason: Symbol, members: Int }
@@ -84,7 +87,7 @@ fn refused_cast_route_verdict() -> IdentityCastRouteVerdict {
 fn identity_cast_route_admitted_holds(v: IdentityCastRouteVerdict) -> Bool {
   match v {
     IdentityCastEntryEmitted { text: t, members: n } =>
-      n == 1 && string_contains(s: t, pattern: "fn f(x: i32) -> i32")
+      n == 1 && t == identity_cast_supplied_emitted_text
     IdentityCastEntryRefused { reason: _, members: _ } => false
     IdentityCastClosureRefused { reason: _ } => false
   }
diff --git a/src/v2/test/claim/execution/emit_host_identity_cast_native_test.dag b/src/v2/test/claim/execution/emit_host_identity_cast_native_test.dag
index 634d8e9d899..4079912436d 100644
--- a/src/v2/test/claim/execution/emit_host_identity_cast_native_test.dag
+++ b/src/v2/test/claim/execution/emit_host_identity_cast_native_test.dag
@@ -14,16 +14,15 @@ import v2.std.text { String }
 import v2.std.witness { Violates }
 import v2.test.claim.coercion.identity_cast_emission_route {
   IdentityCastClosureRefused, IdentityCastEntryEmitted, IdentityCastEntryRefused,
-  identity_cast_route_admitted_holds, identity_cast_route_verdict,
+  identity_cast_route_verdict,
 }
 
 data live_tree_disposition: LiveTreeDisposition = SubstrateInputsOnly
 
-// THE ADMITTED IDENTITY CAST, BUILT AND RUN. identity_cast_route_verdict is the real door; this
-// module reads the same verdict the required-gate inhabitance already asserted, then builds and
-// runs it. The last merge-time execution of the door is
-// v2.test.claim.coercion.identity_cast_emission_route.an_admitted_identity_cast_emits_through_the_closure_route_holds,
-// not this module.
+// THE ADMITTED IDENTITY CAST, BUILT AND RUN. One native control reads the REAL member text from
+// identity_cast_route_verdict and every runtime case builds and runs that artifact (DESIGN section 3
+// pairing). The last merge-time execution of the door on the required gate is still
+// v2.test.claim.coercion.identity_cast_emission_route.an_admitted_identity_cast_emits_through_the_closure_route_holds.
 //
 // STANDING, STATED SO IT IS NOT READ AS COVERAGE: this module is outside the required gate
 // (v2.workflow.required_floor required_gate_authored_modules) by operator decision, because every
@@ -46,19 +45,18 @@ fn identity_cast_native_inputs() -> Inputs {
   inputs_root_only(root: node_synthetic(kind: v2.std.node.TypeNode { connective: v2.std.node.Atom { identity: ^identity_cast_native_probe } }, children: []))
 }
 
-// The entry member's emitted text, read from the route module's shared verdict rather than emitted a
-// second time: the text built here is the text the admission row asserted on. Absent when the route
-// did not emit exactly the entry.
+// The entry member's emitted text from the closure door. Absent when the route did not emit exactly
+// one admitted entry. Runtime cases share this control; they do not substitute a supplied spelling.
 fn identity_cast_native_emitted() -> Optional<String> {
-  let v = identity_cast_route_verdict()
-  if identity_cast_route_admitted_holds(v: v) {
-    match v {
-      IdentityCastEntryEmitted { text: t, members: _ } => optional_present(value: t)
-      IdentityCastEntryRefused { reason: _, members: _ } => optional_absent()
-      IdentityCastClosureRefused { reason: _ } => optional_absent()
-    }
-  } else {
-    optional_absent()
+  match identity_cast_route_verdict() {
+    IdentityCastEntryEmitted { text: t, members: n } =>
+      if n == 1 {
+        optional_present(value: t)
+      } else {
+        optional_absent()
+      }
+    IdentityCastEntryRefused { reason: _, members: _ } => optional_absent()
+    IdentityCastClosureRefused { reason: _ } => optional_absent()
   }
 }