diff --git a/src/sse/handlers/chat.ts b/src/sse/handlers/chat.ts
index 161321117e..20e96b2684 100644
--- a/src/sse/handlers/chat.ts
+++ b/src/sse/handlers/chat.ts
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ import {
 } from "./chatHelpers";
 import {
   isAntigravityMissingProjectError,
+  PROVIDER_BREAKER_FAILURE_STATUSES,
   shouldTripProviderBreakerForResult,
 } from "./chatPredicates";
 import { connectionHasExtraKeys } from "@omniroute/open-sse/services/apiKeyRotator.ts";
diff --git a/src/sse/handlers/chatPredicates.ts b/src/sse/handlers/chatPredicates.ts
index a45dbc4d5a..fd14015c8d 100644
--- a/src/sse/handlers/chatPredicates.ts
+++ b/src/sse/handlers/chatPredicates.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { isLocalStreamLifecycleError } from "../../shared/utils/circuitBreaker";
 import { isRequestScopedUpstreamFailure } from "./comboFailureLogging";
 
-const PROVIDER_BREAKER_FAILURE_STATUSES = new Set([408, 500, 502, 503, 504]);
+export const PROVIDER_BREAKER_FAILURE_STATUSES = new Set([408, 500, 502, 503, 504]);
 
 // #7907/#7908: single-model breaker trip bypasses the `isFailure` option (only applies
 // inside `breaker.execute()`), so it needs its own `isLocalStreamLifecycleError` guard —
diff --git a/tests/unit/nvidia-quota-phase1.test.ts b/tests/unit/nvidia-quota-phase1.test.ts
index ef09091d01..346868be07 100644
--- a/tests/unit/nvidia-quota-phase1.test.ts
+++ b/tests/unit/nvidia-quota-phase1.test.ts
@@ -214,16 +214,19 @@ test("semaphore.getStats reflects nvidia's per-connection gate key", async () =>
 // ── Failure-mode separation regression guard ────────────────────────────────
 
 test("nvidia 429 does not trip the provider circuit breaker (unchanged 408/500/502/503/504-only classification)", () => {
-  // This PR does not touch src/sse/handlers/chat.ts or the circuit breaker — this
-  // is a documentation-alignment guard proving Phase 1 didn't accidentally widen
+  // This PR does not touch the circuit breaker classification — this is a
+  // documentation-alignment guard proving Phase 1 didn't accidentally widen
   // PROVIDER_BREAKER_FAILURE_STATUSES to include 429 (which would collapse the
   // per-model lockout this PR adds into a whole-connection/provider outage).
+  // #8013 extracted the const from src/sse/handlers/chat.ts into chatPredicates.ts
+  // (still consumed by chat.ts's breaker paths) — read the declaration from its
+  // current home.
   const chatHandlerPath = path.join(
     process.cwd(),
     "src",
     "sse",
     "handlers",
-    "chat.ts"
+    "chatPredicates.ts"
   );
   const source = fs.readFileSync(chatHandlerPath, "utf8");
   const match = source.match(/PROVIDER_BREAKER_FAILURE_STATUSES\s*=\s*new Set\(\[([^\]]+)\]\)/);