diff --git a/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/wake/_wake-common.sh b/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/wake/_wake-common.sh
index d753c18b..5bdb16c7 100755
--- a/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/wake/_wake-common.sh
+++ b/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/wake/_wake-common.sh
@@ -55,6 +55,25 @@ _wake_tmp_prefix='.wake.tmp.'
 # the old target fully intact and a stale .wake.tmp.* that readers ignore.
 _atomic_write() {
   local target="$1" dir tmp
+  # --- TEST-ONLY FAULT SEAM (issue #934) — PROD-INERT. ------------------------
+  # Forces the ALREADY-EXISTING atomic-write failure PATH (the fail-loud +
+  # rollback handling #908/#917 built) to be taken for ONE named write target, so
+  # the seq-integrity failure assertions (T9 arrow-1 no-burn, T11 cursor-write
+  # gate) RUN UNPRIVILEGED in the real non-privileged CI runner instead of being
+  # skipped behind an unshare+bind-mount injection. It is honored ONLY when the
+  # test-only env var WAKE_TEST_FAULT is explicitly set to name a write point; it
+  # writes nothing, adds no new behavior, and changes no on-disk format. No
+  # production input (CLI args, locators JSON, on-disk state, watch-list) can set
+  # a process env var, so with WAKE_TEST_FAULT unset this is a no-op and the write
+  # proceeds exactly as before. Map: pending->pending.jsonl, cursor->observed_seq.
+  if [ -n "${WAKE_TEST_FAULT:-}" ]; then
+    case "${WAKE_TEST_FAULT}:$(basename -- "$target")" in
+    pending:pending.jsonl | cursor:observed_seq)
+      cat >/dev/null 2>&1 || true # drain the producer, then report the commit as failed
+      return 1
+      ;;
+    esac
+  fi
   dir="$(dirname "$target")"
   [ -d "$dir" ] || mkdir -p "$dir"
   tmp="$(mktemp "$dir/${_wake_tmp_prefix}XXXXXX")" || return 1
diff --git a/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/wake/manifest.txt b/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/wake/manifest.txt
index af939ddd..1c1705be 100644
--- a/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/wake/manifest.txt
+++ b/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/wake/manifest.txt
@@ -222,8 +222,26 @@
 #              re-enumerates + alarms. Changed: store.sh, reconcile.sh,
 #              _wake-common.sh (doc), test-wake-reconcile.sh (R10/R11),
 #              test-wake-store-ack.sh (T12).
+#   0.6.11 #934 seq-integrity fault injection made MOUNT-FREE + privilege-invariant
+#              so the allocator's most safety-critical failure paths ACTUALLY RUN in
+#              the real NON-privileged CI runner (which denies mount-in-userns) instead
+#              of skipping. T9 (#908 arrow-1 no-burn) and T11 (#917 final-cursor gate +
+#              observed.set rollback) previously forced a write to fail via
+#              `unshare --mount --user --map-root-user` + a bind-mount EBUSY-on-mountpoint,
+#              which the non-priv runner DENIES -> both SKIPPED (skipped-trust-layer, the
+#              class #912 cured for digest). FIX: a single test-only, PROD-INERT fault
+#              seam in _wake-common.sh _atomic_write honored ONLY when the env var
+#              WAKE_TEST_FAULT explicitly names a write point (pending->pending.jsonl,
+#              cursor->observed_seq); it forces the ALREADY-EXISTING fail-loud/rollback
+#              PATH (#908/#917) to be taken for that one target and RUNS UNPRIVILEGED. No
+#              production input can set a process env var, so with it unset the seam is a
+#              no-op: on-disk format + allocator semantics are byte-for-byte unchanged in
+#              production. The unshare+bind-mount injection AND its skip-when-unavailable
+#              guard/witness-marker are REMOVED — T9/T11 now RUN and ASSERT their failure
+#              paths in every environment including non-priv CI. Changed: _wake-common.sh
+#              (seam), test-wake-store-ack.sh (T9/T11 conversion).
 component=wake
-version=0.6.10
+version=0.6.11
 
 # Watch-list schema this component consumes, and the INCLUSIVE range of
 # schema_version values it supports. A wake-watch-list.json whose schema_version
diff --git a/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/wake/test-wake-store-ack.sh b/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/wake/test-wake-store-ack.sh
index f39600ec..69eb3ff9 100755
--- a/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/wake/test-wake-store-ack.sh
+++ b/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/wake/test-wake-store-ack.sh
@@ -332,57 +332,19 @@ echo "== T9: burn-before-enqueue — a failed durable write must NOT advance obs
   [ "$s1" = "1" ] || fail_msg "T9: baseline allocation should be 1, got '$s1'"
   obs_before="$("$STORE" cursors | sed -n 's/^observed_seq=//p')"
   [ "$obs_before" = "1" ] || fail_msg "T9: observed_seq should be 1 before the forced failure, got '$obs_before'"
-  # Force the durable PENDING write to FAIL via a PRIVILEGE-INVARIANT trigger:
-  # bind-mount a throwaway file OVER $STATE_DIR/pending.jsonl (_atomic_write's
-  # exact rename TARGET for the durable write — see _wake-common.sh) so the
-  # atomic write's `mv -f tmp target` hits EBUSY ("Device or resource busy"):
-  # the kernel refuses to rename ANY file onto an ACTIVE MOUNT POINT. That is
-  # a structural VFS constraint, not a DAC permission check — root does NOT
-  # bypass it (no uid can rename over a live mountpoint short of an explicit
-  # umount first). This replaces the old `chmod 500 "$STATE_DIR"` injection: a
-  # CI container running as root BYPASSES DAC checks entirely, so the
-  # "read-only" dir let mktemp/the write through and every assertion below
-  # went spuriously green. The old chmod also blocked the CURSOR's own
-  # mktemp (same dir), so it could never have caught a premature cursor
-  # commit either — narrower coverage than its comment claimed. Here
-  # observed_seq is left an ordinary writable file, never touched by the
-  # mount, so a regression that commits the cursor before/independent of the
-  # durable write is still genuinely caught by the assertions below.
-  #
-  # The mount + forced enqueue run inside a private mount+user namespace
-  # (`unshare --mount --user --map-root-user`) so the mechanism is IDENTICAL
-  # whether this harness runs unprivileged (dev) or as root (CI): creating a
-  # user namespace needs no pre-existing privilege, and the busy-mountpoint
-  # rule inside it is the real kernel rule, unaffected by uid in or out of a
-  # namespace. The bind mount is entirely private to that namespace and
-  # vanishes the instant it exits, so $STATE_DIR/pending.jsonl is a plain
-  # writable file again for every assertion below — no manual cleanup step.
-  rc=0
-  if ! command -v unshare >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-    fail_msg "T9: 'unshare' unavailable — cannot construct the privilege-invariant fault injection in this sandbox"
-    rc=99
-  else
-    ro_src="$TMP_ROOT/t9-ro-src"
-    mkdir -p "$ro_src"
-    : >"$ro_src/pending.jsonl"
-    # shellcheck disable=SC2016 # deliberate: $1/$2/$3 expand in the NESTED
-    # bash (inside the unshare'd namespace), not this outer single-quoted one.
-    unshare --mount --user --map-root-user bash -c '
-      set -u
-      ro_src="$1"
-      state_dir="$2"
-      store="$3"
-      if ! mount --bind "$ro_src/pending.jsonl" "$state_dir/pending.jsonl" 2>/dev/null; then
-        exit 98
-      fi
-      mount -o remount,ro,bind "$state_dir/pending.jsonl" 2>/dev/null || true
-      "$store" enqueue --class actionable --locators "{\"n\":2}" >/dev/null 2>&1
-    ' _ "$ro_src" "$STATE_DIR" "$STORE"
-    rc=$?
-    if [ "$rc" -eq 98 ]; then
-      fail_msg "T9: could not bind-mount over pending.jsonl (mount unavailable in this sandbox) — fault injection not constructed"
-    fi
-  fi
+  # Force the durable PENDING write to FAIL via the MOUNT-FREE, privilege-invariant
+  # test-only fault seam (#934): WAKE_TEST_FAULT=pending makes store.sh's
+  # _atomic_write to pending.jsonl (the durable write's exact target — see
+  # _wake-common.sh) report the commit as failed, WITHOUT any unshare/bind-mount.
+  # It exercises the SAME #908 arrow-1 fail-loud path the old EBUSY-on-mountpoint
+  # trigger did, but RUNS UNPRIVILEGED, so it EXECUTES (never skips) in the real
+  # non-privileged CI runner that denies mount-in-userns. observed_seq is left an
+  # ordinary writable file, untouched by the seam, so a regression that commits the
+  # cursor before/independent of the durable write is still genuinely caught below.
+  # The seam is scoped to THIS single enqueue via a command-prefix env assignment,
+  # so it never leaks to the cursors/consume/enqueue calls that follow.
+  WAKE_TEST_FAULT=pending "$STORE" enqueue --class actionable --locators '{"n":2}' >/dev/null 2>&1
+  rc=$?
   [ "$rc" -ne 0 ] || fail_msg "T9: an enqueue whose durable write fails must EXIT NON-ZERO (fail loud)"
   # THE ARROW-#1 ASSERTION: the observed_seq cursor did NOT advance — no seq was
   # burned by a write that never reached the store. (RED if the cursor bumps
@@ -481,100 +443,54 @@ echo "== T11: final observed_seq cursor write FAILURE — fail loud + observed.s
   unset WAKE_AGENT
   STATE_DIR="$WAKE_STATE_HOME/default"
   # Baseline: one clean allocation. observed_seq cursor=1, observed.set={1}, the
-  # cursor FILE now exists (so it can be bind-mounted over below).
+  # cursor FILE now exists (so the faulted enqueue below exercises the cursor-WRITE
+  # commit, not a first-time seed via _wake_init_dir).
   s1="$("$STORE" enqueue --class actionable --locators '{"n":1}')"
   [ "$s1" = "1" ] || fail_msg "T11: baseline allocation should be 1, got '$s1'"
   obs_before="$("$STORE" cursors | sed -n 's/^observed_seq=//p')"
   [ "$obs_before" = "1" ] || fail_msg "T11: observed_seq should be 1 before the forced failure, got '$obs_before'"
 
   # Force ONLY the FINAL observed_seq cursor _atomic_write to fail, AFTER the
-  # pending + observed.set writes have already succeeded. Same privilege-invariant
-  # trigger as T9 (bind-mount a throwaway file OVER _atomic_write's rename TARGET
-  # so `mv -f tmp target` hits EBUSY — the kernel refuses to rename onto an ACTIVE
-  # MOUNT POINT; a structural VFS rule root does NOT bypass), but the mount is over
-  # $STATE_DIR/observed_seq (the CURSOR) instead of pending.jsonl. pending.jsonl and
-  # observed.set stay ordinary writable files, so their writes SUCCEED and only the
-  # cursor commit fails — exactly the #917 window (cursor-write failure after a good
-  # observed.set write). The mount lives inside a private mount+user namespace
-  # (unshare --mount --user --map-root-user) so it is identical unprivileged (dev)
-  # or as root (CI) and vanishes the instant the namespace exits — no cleanup.
-  #
-  # AVAILABILITY GUARD (matches T9): this injection needs unshare + a working
-  # bind-mount, which a NON-PRIVILEGED container (the real CI runner) DENIES —
-  # `unshare --mount` fails to set up ("unshare failed: Operation not permitted" /
-  # "can't mount none on /") and the inner enqueue NEVER runs. When the injection
-  # cannot be constructed we SKIP the failure-path assertions (there is no forced
-  # failure to observe) and keep the harness GREEN, exactly like T9 tolerates the
-  # same unavailability. The inner script drops a MARKER only AFTER the mount is in
-  # place and immediately before the enqueue, so its presence is an exact witness
-  # that the cursor-write fault was really injected; its absence => unavailable.
+  # pending + observed.set writes have already succeeded, via the MOUNT-FREE,
+  # privilege-invariant test-only fault seam (#934): WAKE_TEST_FAULT=cursor fails
+  # ONLY the _atomic_write whose target basename is observed_seq (the CURSOR).
+  # pending.jsonl and observed.set stay ordinary writable files, so their writes
+  # SUCCEED and only the cursor commit fails — exactly the #917 window (cursor-write
+  # failure after a good observed.set write). Because the baseline enqueue already
+  # created observed_seq, _wake_init_dir does NOT rewrite it, so within this faulted
+  # enqueue the ONLY _atomic_write to observed_seq is the final cursor commit; the
+  # observed.set rollback write (a different basename) still succeeds. No
+  # unshare/bind-mount: this RUNS UNPRIVILEGED, so it EXECUTES (never skips) in the
+  # real non-privileged CI runner that denies mount-in-userns. The seam is scoped to
+  # THIS single enqueue via a command-prefix env assignment, so it never leaks to
+  # the cursors/consume calls that assert the outcome.
   errfile="$TMP_ROOT/t11.err"
-  marker="$TMP_ROOT/t11.injected"
   : >"$errfile"
-  rm -f "$marker"
-  rc=0
-  injected=0
-  if ! command -v unshare >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-    echo "  SKIP: T11 — 'unshare' unavailable; cannot construct the cursor-write fault injection (like T9)"
-  else
-    ro_src="$TMP_ROOT/t11-ro-src"
-    mkdir -p "$ro_src"
-    # Seed the throwaway file with the CURRENT cursor value so the allocator's
-    # READ of observed_seq still returns 1 (an empty file would read as 0 and
-    # mis-allocate seq=1, never exercising the cursor-WRITE failure). Only the
-    # final `mv -f tmp observed_seq` commit is blocked by the mountpoint.
-    printf '%s' "$obs_before" >"$ro_src/observed_seq"
-    # shellcheck disable=SC2016 # deliberate: $1..$5 expand in the NESTED bash
-    # (inside the unshare'd namespace), not this outer single-quoted one.
-    unshare --mount --user --map-root-user bash -c '
-      set -u
-      ro_src="$1"
-      state_dir="$2"
-      store="$3"
-      errfile="$4"
-      marker="$5"
-      if ! mount --bind "$ro_src/observed_seq" "$state_dir/observed_seq" 2>/dev/null; then
-        exit 98
-      fi
-      mount -o remount,ro,bind "$state_dir/observed_seq" 2>/dev/null || true
-      : >"$marker"  # WITNESS: mount is in place; the enqueue below WILL hit the mounted cursor.
-      "$store" enqueue --class actionable --locators "{\"n\":2}" >/dev/null 2>"$errfile"
-    ' _ "$ro_src" "$STATE_DIR" "$STORE" "$errfile" "$marker" 2>/dev/null
-    rc=$?
-    if [ -f "$marker" ]; then
-      injected=1
-    else
-      # unshare --mount denied (non-priv CI) or bind-mount unavailable (exit 98):
-      # the inner enqueue never ran, so there is no forced cursor-write failure to
-      # assert. SKIP gracefully instead of asserting a failure that was not injected.
-      echo "  SKIP: T11 — unshare/bind-mount fault injection unavailable in this sandbox (e.g. non-privileged CI); cursor-write failure path not exercised here (like T9)"
-    fi
-  fi
+  WAKE_TEST_FAULT=cursor "$STORE" enqueue --class actionable --locators '{"n":2}' >/dev/null 2>"$errfile"
+  rc=$?
 
-  if [ "$injected" -eq 1 ]; then
-    # (1) FAIL LOUD: the cursor-write failure must EXIT NON-ZERO, never a silent
-    # success (RED against pre-#917 code, whose ungated final cursor write swallows
-    # the _atomic_write failure and returns 0).
-    [ "$rc" -ne 0 ] || fail_msg "T11: an enqueue whose FINAL cursor write fails must EXIT NON-ZERO (fail loud), got rc=$rc"
-    # The loud diagnostic names the cursor write (not a generic error).
-    grep -qi 'cursor' "$errfile" || fail_msg "T11: the failure diagnostic must name the observed_seq cursor write [$(cat "$errfile")]"
+  # (1) FAIL LOUD: the cursor-write failure must EXIT NON-ZERO, never a silent
+  # success (RED against pre-#917 code, whose ungated final cursor write swallows
+  # the _atomic_write failure and returns 0).
+  [ "$rc" -ne 0 ] || fail_msg "T11: an enqueue whose FINAL cursor write fails must EXIT NON-ZERO (fail loud), got rc=$rc"
+  # The loud diagnostic names the cursor write (not a generic error).
+  grep -qi 'cursor' "$errfile" || fail_msg "T11: the failure diagnostic must name the observed_seq cursor write [$(cat "$errfile")]"
 
-    # (2) The cursor did NOT advance — the allocation is NOT committed.
-    obs_after="$("$STORE" cursors | sed -n 's/^observed_seq=//p')"
-    [ "$obs_after" = "1" ] || fail_msg "T11: a failed cursor write must NOT leave the cursor advanced, got '$obs_after'"
+  # (2) The cursor did NOT advance — the allocation is NOT committed.
+  obs_after="$("$STORE" cursors | sed -n 's/^observed_seq=//p')"
+  [ "$obs_after" = "1" ] || fail_msg "T11: a failed cursor write must NOT leave the cursor advanced, got '$obs_after'"
 
-    # (3) THE #917 CONSISTENCY ASSERTION: observed.set and the cursor must NEVER be
-    # left cross-file inconsistent. observed.set must carry NO seq greater than the
-    # cursor — either the observed.set advance was rolled back (neither advances) or
-    # both advanced together; there is no state where observed.set is ahead of the
-    # cursor. RED against pre-#917 code: observed.set={1,2} while the cursor lags at
-    # 1, so seq 2 is stranded above the cursor.
-    stranded="$(awk -v c="$obs_after" 'NF && $1+0 > c' "$STATE_DIR/observed.set" 2>/dev/null || true)"
-    [ -z "$stranded" ] || fail_msg "T11: observed.set left CROSS-FILE INCONSISTENT with the cursor — seq(s) above cursor $obs_after: [$stranded]"
+  # (3) THE #917 CONSISTENCY ASSERTION: observed.set and the cursor must NEVER be
+  # left cross-file inconsistent. observed.set must carry NO seq greater than the
+  # cursor — either the observed.set advance was rolled back (neither advances) or
+  # both advanced together; there is no state where observed.set is ahead of the
+  # cursor. RED against pre-#917 code: observed.set={1,2} while the cursor lags at
+  # 1, so seq 2 is stranded above the cursor.
+  stranded="$(awk -v c="$obs_after" 'NF && $1+0 > c' "$STATE_DIR/observed.set" 2>/dev/null || true)"
+  [ -z "$stranded" ] || fail_msg "T11: observed.set left CROSS-FILE INCONSISTENT with the cursor — seq(s) above cursor $obs_after: [$stranded]"
 
-    # (4) The consumed prefix is intact — no interior gap corrupts future consume.
-    "$STORE" consume --upto 1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || fail_msg "T11: CONSUMED 1 must remain valid after the failed cursor write (no gap)"
-  fi
+  # (4) The consumed prefix is intact — no interior gap corrupts future consume.
+  "$STORE" consume --upto 1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || fail_msg "T11: CONSUMED 1 must remain valid after the failed cursor write (no gap)"
 ) && ok
 
 echo "== T12: #932 — consume records the last-consumed observed_hash per (kind,id) into the store-owned record (additive; monotonic; keyed by kind,id) =="