diff --git a/compilers/openapi/cycles_test.go b/compilers/openapi/cycles_test.go
index f28ebff..0446436 100644
--- a/compilers/openapi/cycles_test.go
+++ b/compilers/openapi/cycles_test.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package openapi
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
@@ -53,6 +54,34 @@ var cycleReproducers = []struct{ name, file string }{
 	{"pointer-whitespace-self", "cycle_pointer_whitespace_self"},
 }
 
+// TestCycleReproducers_EveryFixtureIsExercised holds cycleReproducers to the
+// fixtures on disk, the way TestDanglingRefs_EveryReproducerIsExercised holds
+// its own table: a cycle_*.yaml added to the corpus and left out of the table is
+// compiled by nothing here, and the suite stays green while the corpus grows
+// past it.
+//
+// The scan package keeps a table of the same fixtures for its own assertion and
+// carries the twin of this test. Holding both to one directory is what stops the
+// two from drifting apart as well as from the corpus, which neither package can
+// check directly — a test package cannot import another's.
+func TestCycleReproducers_EveryFixtureIsExercised(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	onDisk, err := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(reproducerDir, "cycle_*.yaml"))
+	require.NoError(t, err, "globbing the reproducer corpus")
+	require.NotEmpty(t, onDisk, "the corpus holds cycle reproducers")
+
+	listed := make(map[string]bool, len(cycleReproducers))
+	for _, tc := range cycleReproducers {
+		listed[tc.file+".yaml"] = true
+	}
+	for _, path := range onDisk {
+		assert.True(t, listed[filepath.Base(path)],
+			"%s is in %s but not in cycleReproducers", filepath.Base(path), reproducerDir)
+	}
+	assert.Len(t, cycleReproducers, len(onDisk),
+		"cycleReproducers and %s hold different numbers of fixtures", reproducerDir)
+}
+
 func TestCompile_CyclicSpecDoesNotCrash(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 	for _, tc := range cycleReproducers {
@@ -249,9 +278,16 @@ components:
 	}
 }
 
+// reproducerDir is where the cycle fixtures live. The reader below, the table
+// guard above and the fuzz seeds all derive their paths from it, so none of them
+// can end up looking somewhere the others are not — which matters most for the
+// seed loader, since it ignores a read error and a wrong path there would cost
+// the fuzzer its seeds in silence.
+const reproducerDir = "../../testdata/openapi"
+
 func readReproducer(t *testing.T, file string) []byte {
 	t.Helper()
-	data, err := os.ReadFile("../../testdata/openapi/" + file + ".yaml")
+	data, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(reproducerDir, file+".yaml"))
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 	return data
 }
@@ -285,14 +321,14 @@ func TestCompile_MergeChainPastBoundStillCompiles(t *testing.T) {
 
 func FuzzCycleDetector(f *testing.F) {
 	for _, tc := range cycleReproducers {
-		if data, err := os.ReadFile("../../testdata/openapi/" + tc.file + ".yaml"); err == nil {
+		if data, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(reproducerDir, tc.file+".yaml")); err == nil {
 			f.Add(data)
 		}
 	}
 	for _, tc := range refShapedDataSpecs {
 		f.Add([]byte(tc.data))
 	}
-	if data, err := os.ReadFile("../../testdata/openapi/amplification_alias_bomb.yaml"); err == nil {
+	if data, err := os.ReadFile(amplificationBombFixture); err == nil {
 		f.Add(data) // the GitHub #27 reproducer: refused for amplification, not a cycle
 	}
 	f.Add([]byte(" "))         // whitespace-only: recoverable parser panic
diff --git a/compilers/openapi/danglingcheck_test.go b/compilers/openapi/danglingcheck_test.go
index a144e46..66c83e8 100644
--- a/compilers/openapi/danglingcheck_test.go
+++ b/compilers/openapi/danglingcheck_test.go
@@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ import (
 	"github.com/dexpace/morphic/ir/irverify"
 )
 
-// danglingDir holds the twelve issue-#14 reproducers, copied out of triage so the
-// tests are self-contained.
+// danglingDir holds the issue-#14 reproducers, copied out of triage so the tests
+// are self-contained. danglingReproducers is the enumeration, and
+// TestDanglingRefs_EveryReproducerIsExercised holds it to the directory.
 const danglingDir = "../../testdata/dangling/openapi"
 
 // danglingRefs returns a sorted, human-readable list of every dangling reference
@@ -83,16 +84,19 @@ const (
 	internsNoisy
 )
 
-// TestDanglingRefs_Reproducers compiles each issue-#14 reproducer and asserts the
-// produced IR has zero dangling references — every offending entry either interns
-// correctly or is dropped with an error-severity diagnostic.
-func TestDanglingRefs_Reproducers(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-	cases := []struct {
-		file    string
-		srcPath string
-		want    outcome
-	}{
+// danglingCase is one reproducer: the fixture under danglingDir, the source path
+// it is compiled as, and what the compiler is expected to do with it.
+type danglingCase struct {
+	file    string
+	srcPath string
+	want    outcome
+}
+
+// danglingReproducers enumerates the fixtures under danglingDir.
+// TestDanglingRefs_EveryReproducerIsExercised fails when the directory holds one
+// this list does not, so a fixture added to the corpus cannot sit unexercised.
+func danglingReproducers() []danglingCase {
+	return []danglingCase{
 		{"f04-composition.yaml", "f04.yaml", drops},
 		{"f05-discriminator.yaml", "f05.yaml", drops},
 		{"f06-discriminator.yaml", "f06.yaml", drops},
@@ -108,7 +112,40 @@ func TestDanglingRefs_Reproducers(t *testing.T) {
 		{"f31-discriminator-empty-name.yaml", "f31.yaml", interns},
 		{"f32-ref-noncanonical-escape.yaml", "f32.yaml", internsNoisy},
 	}
-	for _, tc := range cases {
+}
+
+// TestDanglingRefs_EveryReproducerIsExercised holds danglingReproducers to the
+// directory it enumerates. A fixture copied into danglingDir and not added to the
+// table would otherwise be compiled by nothing, and the suite would stay green
+// while the corpus grew past it — the drift a hand-maintained list invites.
+func TestDanglingRefs_EveryReproducerIsExercised(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	onDisk, err := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(danglingDir, "*.yaml"))
+	require.NoError(t, err, "globbing the reproducer directory")
+	require.NotEmpty(t, onDisk, "the reproducer directory is not empty")
+
+	table := danglingReproducers()
+	listed := make(map[string]bool, len(table))
+	for _, tc := range table {
+		listed[tc.file] = true
+	}
+	for _, path := range onDisk {
+		assert.True(t, listed[filepath.Base(path)],
+			"%s is in %s but not in danglingReproducers", filepath.Base(path), danglingDir)
+	}
+	// Neutral about which side is short, because it catches both: a row naming no
+	// fixture is what it is here for, and it fires again beside the check above
+	// when the directory is the side holding the extra.
+	assert.Len(t, table, len(onDisk),
+		"danglingReproducers and %s hold different numbers of fixtures", danglingDir)
+}
+
+// TestDanglingRefs_Reproducers compiles each issue-#14 reproducer and asserts the
+// produced IR has zero dangling references — every offending entry either interns
+// correctly or is dropped with an error-severity diagnostic.
+func TestDanglingRefs_Reproducers(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	for _, tc := range danglingReproducers() {
 		t.Run(tc.file, func(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Parallel()
 			doc, diags := compileFile(t, danglingDir, tc.file, tc.srcPath)
diff --git a/compilers/openapi/internal/scan/scan_internal_test.go b/compilers/openapi/internal/scan/scan_internal_test.go
index cc033a4..d14dc30 100644
--- a/compilers/openapi/internal/scan/scan_internal_test.go
+++ b/compilers/openapi/internal/scan/scan_internal_test.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package scan
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
@@ -53,6 +54,33 @@ var cycleReproducers = []struct{ name, file string }{
 	{"pointer-whitespace-self", "cycle_pointer_whitespace_self"},
 }
 
+// TestCycleReproducers_EveryFixtureIsExercised holds cycleReproducers to the
+// fixtures on disk. A cycle_*.yaml added to the corpus and left out of the table
+// is scanned by nothing here, and the suite stays green while the corpus grows
+// past it.
+//
+// The compiler package keeps a table of the same fixtures for its own assertion
+// and carries the twin of this test. Holding both to one directory is what stops
+// the two from drifting apart as well as from the corpus, which neither package
+// can check directly — a test package cannot import another's.
+func TestCycleReproducers_EveryFixtureIsExercised(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	onDisk, err := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(reproducerDir, "cycle_*.yaml"))
+	require.NoError(t, err, "globbing the reproducer corpus")
+	require.NotEmpty(t, onDisk, "the corpus holds cycle reproducers")
+
+	listed := make(map[string]bool, len(cycleReproducers))
+	for _, tc := range cycleReproducers {
+		listed[tc.file+".yaml"] = true
+	}
+	for _, path := range onDisk {
+		assert.True(t, listed[filepath.Base(path)],
+			"%s is in %s but not in cycleReproducers", filepath.Base(path), reproducerDir)
+	}
+	assert.Len(t, cycleReproducers, len(onDisk),
+		"cycleReproducers and %s hold different numbers of fixtures", reproducerDir)
+}
+
 func TestDetectCycles_Reproducers(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 	for _, tc := range cycleReproducers {
@@ -248,9 +276,14 @@ func rawNodes(n *yaml.Node) int64 {
 	return sourceindex.Build(n, sourceindex.MaxIndexedNodes).Nodes()
 }
 
+// reproducerDir is where the cycle fixtures live. The reader below and the table
+// guard both derive their paths from it, so neither can end up looking somewhere
+// the other is not.
+const reproducerDir = "../../../../testdata/openapi"
+
 func readReproducer(t *testing.T, file string) []byte {
 	t.Helper()
-	data, err := os.ReadFile("../../../../testdata/openapi/" + file + ".yaml")
+	data, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(reproducerDir, file+".yaml"))
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 	return data
 }