diff --git a/tests/runner-e2e/catalog-overview.test.ts b/tests/runner-e2e/catalog-overview.test.ts
index e8c7da68ff2..d390c3a55a1 100644
--- a/tests/runner-e2e/catalog-overview.test.ts
+++ b/tests/runner-e2e/catalog-overview.test.ts
@@ -73,6 +73,10 @@ describe("display-only catalog overview", () => {
     expect(doc.querySelector('.summary')!.textContent).toContain('25Recorded feature-work passes');
     expect(() => parseCatalogOverview({...data,accounting:{...data.accounting,exhaustedFinals:104}})).toThrow('Inconsistent catalog accounting');
   });
+  it("rejects unknown allowance when execution is positively known never-run", () => {
+    const data=fixture(); data.rows[169]!.allowance="unknown";
+    expect(() => parseCatalogOverview(data)).toThrow('Inconsistent recorded execution scope');
+  });
   it("shows a later candidate pass without promoting the recorded main failure", () => {
     const data=fixture(); data.rows[25]!.latestCandidateOutcome="passed";
     const doc=new JSDOM(page(data)).window.document,row=doc.getElementById('catalog-'+data.rows[25]!.scenarioId)!;
diff --git a/tests/runner-e2e/catalog-overview.ts b/tests/runner-e2e/catalog-overview.ts
index a3dbcd4c26b..5779ab8e2be 100644
--- a/tests/runner-e2e/catalog-overview.ts
+++ b/tests/runner-e2e/catalog-overview.ts
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ export function parseCatalogOverview(value: unknown): CatalogOverview {
   });
   if (new Set(rows.map(row => row.scenarioId)).size !== 244 || new Set(rows.map(row => row.scenarioId.split(".")[0])).size !== 35) throw new Error("Duplicate or incomplete catalog metadata");
   for (const row of rows) {
-    if ((row.mainOutcome !== "unmeasured") !== (row.executionRecord === "main-measured") || (row.allowance !== "unknown" && (row.allowance === "unused-initial") !== (row.executionRecord === "never-run"))
+    if ((row.mainOutcome !== "unmeasured") !== (row.executionRecord === "main-measured") || (row.allowance === "unused-initial") !== (row.executionRecord === "never-run")
       || (row.latestCandidateOutcome !== undefined && ["never-run", "unknown"].includes(row.executionRecord))) throw new Error("Inconsistent recorded execution scope");
   }
   const measured = rows.filter(row => row.mainOutcome !== "unmeasured").length;