diff --git a/packages/mosaic/src/mutator-gate/runtime_tools_unittest.py b/packages/mosaic/src/mutator-gate/runtime_tools_unittest.py
index 25947b6a..9707895d 100644
--- a/packages/mosaic/src/mutator-gate/runtime_tools_unittest.py
+++ b/packages/mosaic/src/mutator-gate/runtime_tools_unittest.py
@@ -337,7 +337,13 @@ class ExecutableEntrypointTest(unittest.TestCase):
             runpy.run_path(str(TOOLS_DIR / "launch-runtime.py"), run_name="__main__")
         self.assertEqual(raised.exception.code, 64)
 
-    def test_revoker_entrypoint_denies_when_identity_environment_is_absent(self) -> None:
+    def test_revoker_entrypoint_noops_when_identity_environment_is_absent(self) -> None:
+        # D29 supersession. This assertion previously pinned rc=2. Absent identity
+        # means no lease was ever held, so there is nothing to revoke and the correct
+        # result is no-op success. The old pin was written in e4d7d45 (WI-3), the same
+        # commit that shipped launch-runtime.py's lease-var provisioning, on the
+        # assumption that an envless revoker was unreachable. D29 falsified that in
+        # production. Behavioural pins live in src/lease-broker/revoke_noop_unittest.py.
         with patch.object(
             sys,
             "argv",
@@ -352,9 +358,42 @@ class ExecutableEntrypointTest(unittest.TestCase):
             io.StringIO()
         ), self.assertRaises(SystemExit) as raised:
             runpy.run_path(str(TOOLS_DIR / "revoke-lease.py"), run_name="__main__")
-        self.assertEqual(raised.exception.code, 2)
+        self.assertEqual(raised.exception.code, 0)
+
+    def test_revoker_entrypoint_denies_when_identity_environment_is_half_provisioned(
+        self,
+    ) -> None:
+        # The no-op above is reachable ONLY when identity is TOTALLY absent. A
+        # half-provisioned environment is a machinery-present failure and must still
+        # fail closed. main() already pins this; the entrypoint did not, and the
+        # entrypoint is what the runtime extension actually spawns.
+        half_provisioned = (
+            {"MOSAIC_LEASE_BROKER_SOCKET": "/run/test/broker.sock"},
+            {"MOSAIC_LEASE_SESSION_ID": "d" * 64},
+        )
+        for environment in half_provisioned:
+            with self.subTest(environment=environment), patch.object(
+                sys,
+                "argv",
+                [
+                    str(TOOLS_DIR / "revoke-lease.py"),
+                    "--runtime",
+                    "claude",
+                    "--reason",
+                    "pre-compact",
+                ],
+            ), patch.dict(os.environ, environment, clear=True), redirect_stderr(
+                io.StringIO()
+            ), self.assertRaises(SystemExit) as raised:
+                runpy.run_path(str(TOOLS_DIR / "revoke-lease.py"), run_name="__main__")
+            self.assertEqual(raised.exception.code, 2)
 
     def test_gate_entrypoint_denies_when_identity_environment_is_absent(self) -> None:
+        # Deliberately NOT changed alongside its revoker twin above. The asymmetry is
+        # intentional: the gate's deny-on-absent is the authorization path and is
+        # load-bearing, so absent identity must fail closed here. The revoker's rc=2
+        # was inert in the same case (no session id means no broker call is possible),
+        # which is why only the revoker moved under D29. Do not "restore symmetry".
         class Stdin:
             buffer = io.BytesIO(b'{"tool_name":"Bash"}')
 
@@ -703,8 +742,11 @@ class LeaseRevocationTest(unittest.TestCase):
             "MOSAIC_RUNTIME_GENERATION": "1",
         }
         malformed_session = {**good, "MOSAIC_LEASE_SESSION_ID": "not-a-session"}
+        # D29 exemption: the `({}, ...)` case was removed from this list. An empty
+        # environment is absence-of-lease, not an identity/reply/transport failure, and
+        # its correct result is no-op success (pinned in revoke_noop_unittest.py). The
+        # five cases below are all machinery-present failures and stay fail-closed.
         cases = [
-            ({}, lambda *_args: {"ok": True, "state": "UNVERIFIED"}),
             (malformed_session, lambda *_args: {"ok": True, "state": "UNVERIFIED"}),
             (good, lambda *_args: {"ok": False, "state": "UNVERIFIED"}),
             (good, lambda *_args: {"ok": True, "state": "VERIFIED"}),