diff --git a/scripts/test-layout/layout.json b/scripts/test-layout/layout.json
index dcc7dafffde..1133148f2be 100644
--- a/scripts/test-layout/layout.json
+++ b/scripts/test-layout/layout.json
@@ -1012,6 +1012,7 @@
     "native-profile-route-security.test.ts": "codex-integration",
     "native-profile-stage-lifecycle.test.ts": "codex-integration",
     "native-profile-startup.test.ts": "codex-integration",
+    "native-profile-startup-publication.test.ts": "codex-integration",
     "native-profile-store.test.ts": "codex-integration",
     "new-model-policy.test.ts": "providers",
     "nous-oauth-live.test.ts": "providers",
diff --git a/tests/adapters/openai/openai-chat-dangling-toolcalls.test.ts b/tests/adapters/openai/openai-chat-dangling-toolcalls.test.ts
index 41a61c21023..075e3c33186 100644
--- a/tests/adapters/openai/openai-chat-dangling-toolcalls.test.ts
+++ b/tests/adapters/openai/openai-chat-dangling-toolcalls.test.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ const provider: OcxProviderConfig = {
   baseUrl: "https://example.test/v1",
   apiKey: "sk-test",
   authMode: "key",
+  // The wire role folds to `system` unless a destination is recorded as accepting
+  // `developer`; this suite is about tool-result repair ordering, so it declares the
+  // destination rather than asserting the default.
+  foldDeveloperRoleToSystem: false,
 };
 
 interface ChatMsg {
diff --git a/tests/codex-integration/native-profile-startup-publication.test.ts b/tests/codex-integration/native-profile-startup-publication.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7c885e24aa7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/codex-integration/native-profile-startup-publication.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+import { expect, test } from "bun:test";
+import { mkdtempSync, readFileSync, rmSync, symlinkSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+
+import { publishFixtureFile } from "../helpers/fixture-file-publisher";
+
+test("fixture publication refuses a pre-positioned temporary symlink", () => {
+  const root = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "ocx-fixture-publish-"));
+  try {
+    const marker = join(root, "settled");
+    const victim = join(root, "victim");
+    writeFileSync(victim, "original", "utf8");
+    symlinkSync(victim, `${marker}.${process.pid}.tmp`);
+
+    expect(() => publishFixtureFile(marker, "replacement")).toThrow();
+    expect(readFileSync(victim, "utf8")).toBe("original");
+  } finally {
+    rmSync(root, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  }
+});
diff --git a/tests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json b/tests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json
index 17dadddff96..cf6be0d98cd 100644
--- a/tests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json
+++ b/tests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json
@@ -838,6 +838,7 @@
   "native-profile-route-security.test.ts": "codex-integration",
   "native-profile-stage-lifecycle.test.ts": "codex-integration",
   "native-profile-startup.test.ts": "codex-integration",
+  "native-profile-startup-publication.test.ts": "codex-integration",
   "native-profile-store.test.ts": "codex-integration",
   "new-model-policy.test.ts": "providers",
   "nous-oauth-live.test.ts": "providers",
diff --git a/tests/helpers/fixture-file-publisher.ts b/tests/helpers/fixture-file-publisher.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c4c1e270a0f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/helpers/fixture-file-publisher.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+import {
+  closeSync,
+  fstatSync,
+  lstatSync,
+  openSync,
+  renameSync,
+  writeFileSync,
+} from "node:fs";
+
+/**
+ * Publish a non-secret test marker without invoking the production secret-path hardening.
+ * Exclusive creation and descriptor/entry identity checks prevent a predictable temporary
+ * path from becoming a symlink-following write, while rename keeps the reader view atomic.
+ */
+export function publishFixtureFile(path: string, content: string): void {
+  const temporaryPath = `${path}.${process.pid}.tmp`;
+  const descriptor = openSync(temporaryPath, "wx", 0o600);
+  try {
+    const opened = fstatSync(descriptor);
+    const linked = lstatSync(temporaryPath);
+    if (!opened.isFile() || !linked.isFile()
+      || opened.dev !== linked.dev || opened.ino !== linked.ino) {
+      throw new Error("fixture temporary file identity changed before write");
+    }
+    writeFileSync(descriptor, content, "utf8");
+    const written = fstatSync(descriptor);
+    const published = lstatSync(temporaryPath);
+    if (!published.isFile() || written.dev !== published.dev || written.ino !== published.ino) {
+      throw new Error("fixture temporary file identity changed after write");
+    }
+  } finally {
+    closeSync(descriptor);
+  }
+  renameSync(temporaryPath, path);
+}
diff --git a/tests/helpers/native-profile-startup-child.ts b/tests/helpers/native-profile-startup-child.ts
index 90c3dfd9113..52aae469187 100644
--- a/tests/helpers/native-profile-startup-child.ts
+++ b/tests/helpers/native-profile-startup-child.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { appendFileSync, existsSync, renameSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { appendFileSync, existsSync } from "node:fs";
 
 import { NativeProfileManager } from "../../src/codex/native-profile-manager";
 import { isCodexAccountUsable } from "../../src/codex/account-usability";
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import {
 } from "../../src/codex/native-profile-startup";
 import type { NativeProfileKey, NativeProfileKeyProvider } from "../../src/codex/native-profile-types";
 import { startServer } from "../../src/server";
+import { publishFixtureFile } from "./fixture-file-publisher";
 
 const launchedAt = Number(process.env.NATIVE_STARTUP_LAUNCHED_AT ?? Date.now());
 
@@ -25,23 +26,6 @@ const phase = (name: string): void => {
 
 phase("child-entry");
 
-/**
- * A disposable port number is not a secret, so it must not travel through the production
- * secret writer. On Windows `atomicWriteFile` runs `hardenSecretPath(..., required: true)`
- * twice (`src/config/atomic-write.ts`), each of which can spawn PowerShell for SID resolution
- * and several `icacls` passes budgeted at 30s apiece — an ACL ceremony performed inside the
- * window the parent measures as "time to reach a port".
- *
- * The parent's actual contract is narrower (#1061): it treats existence as readiness and parses
- * immediately, so it must never observe the file between create and write. A rename within the
- * same directory gives exactly that — a reader sees either nothing or the whole document.
- */
-function publishFixtureFile(path: string, content: string): void {
-  const tmp = `${path}.${process.pid}.tmp`;
-  writeFileSync(tmp, content, "utf8");
-  renameSync(tmp, path);
-}
-
 const required = (name: string): string => {
   const value = process.env[name];
   if (!value) throw new Error(`missing ${name}`);
diff --git a/tests/responses/chat-inline-document-bytes.test.ts b/tests/responses/chat-inline-document-bytes.test.ts
index dd88fa05788..a718c1c376a 100644
--- a/tests/responses/chat-inline-document-bytes.test.ts
+++ b/tests/responses/chat-inline-document-bytes.test.ts
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ const chatProvider: OcxProviderConfig = {
   adapter: "openai-chat",
   baseUrl: "https://gateway.example.internal/v1",
   apiKey: "k",
+  // The wire role folds to `system` unless a destination is recorded as accepting
+  // `developer`; the document test asserts the role a turn keeps, so it declares the
+  // destination rather than asserting the default.
+  foldDeveloperRoleToSystem: false,
 };
 const anthropicProvider = {
   adapter: "anthropic",