diff --git a/tests/unit/chatcore-translation-paths.test.ts b/tests/unit/chatcore-translation-paths.test.ts
index 5d4b288946..30d31c0d3b 100644
--- a/tests/unit/chatcore-translation-paths.test.ts
+++ b/tests/unit/chatcore-translation-paths.test.ts
@@ -2329,6 +2329,12 @@ test("chatCore propagates budget errors without an executor-level emergency hop"
   assert.equal(result.success, false);
   assert.equal(result.status, 402);
   assert.equal(calls.length, 1, "no executor-level emergency hop may fire");
+  const body = (await result.response.json()) as any;
+  assert.match(String(body?.error?.message ?? ""), /insufficient funds/);
+  assert.ok(
+    !calls.some((c: any) => String(c.body?.model ?? "").includes("gpt-oss-120b")),
+    "emergency fallback model must not be called at executor level"
+  );
 });
 
 test("chatCore injects progress events into streaming responses when requested", async () => {
diff --git a/tests/unit/executor-vertex-extended.test.ts b/tests/unit/executor-vertex-extended.test.ts
index 6318195c40..f7ac599518 100644
--- a/tests/unit/executor-vertex-extended.test.ts
+++ b/tests/unit/executor-vertex-extended.test.ts
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ test("VertexExecutor.buildUrl routes a non-JSON Express API key to the project-l
     expressUrl,
     "https://aiplatform.googleapis.com/v1/publishers/google/models/gemini-2.5-flash:generateContent?key=express-key-abc"
   );
+  assert.ok(!expressUrl.includes("/projects/"), "Express key URL must not route through a project path");
 });
 
 test("VertexExecutor.buildUrl routes partner and org-prefixed models to the global partner endpoint", () => {
diff --git a/tests/unit/stream-utils.test.ts b/tests/unit/stream-utils.test.ts
index 933bc549d5..a955759ec1 100644
--- a/tests/unit/stream-utils.test.ts
+++ b/tests/unit/stream-utils.test.ts
@@ -1053,6 +1053,7 @@ test("createSSEStream passthrough merges Claude usage chunks and restores mapped
 
 test("#3685 createSSEStream passthrough emits SSE error (not synthetic text) for empty Claude assistant SSE", async () => {
   let failurePayload = null;
+  let completePayload = null;
   await assert.rejects(
     readTransformed(
       [
@@ -1084,6 +1085,9 @@ test("#3685 createSSEStream passthrough emits SSE error (not synthetic text) for
         onFailure(payload) {
           failurePayload = payload;
         },
+        onComplete(payload) {
+          completePayload = payload;
+        },
       }
     ),
     /empty response/i
@@ -1091,6 +1095,11 @@ test("#3685 createSSEStream passthrough emits SSE error (not synthetic text) for
   assert.ok(failurePayload, "onFailure should be called");
   assert.equal(failurePayload.status, 502);
   assert.match(failurePayload.message, /empty response/i);
+  assert.equal(failurePayload.code, "empty_response", "code must identify the failure kind");
+  assert.equal(typeof failurePayload.code, "string", "code must be a string");
+  assert.ok(failurePayload.message.length > 0, "message must be non-empty");
+  assert.ok(failurePayload.status >= 500, "status must be a server error (5xx)");
+  assert.equal(completePayload, null, "onComplete must not fire when stream is empty");
 });
 
 test("createSSEStream passthrough does not emit [DONE] for Claude SSE clients", async () => {
@@ -1151,6 +1160,7 @@ test("createSSEStream passthrough does not emit [DONE] for Claude SSE clients",
 
 test("#3685 createSSEStream translate mode emits SSE error (not synthetic text) when OpenAI upstream finishes empty for Claude client", async () => {
   let failurePayload = null;
+  let completePayload = null;
   await assert.rejects(
     readTransformed(
       [
@@ -1182,6 +1192,9 @@ test("#3685 createSSEStream translate mode emits SSE error (not synthetic text)
         onFailure(payload) {
           failurePayload = payload;
         },
+        onComplete(payload) {
+          completePayload = payload;
+        },
       }
     ),
     /empty response/i
@@ -1189,6 +1202,10 @@ test("#3685 createSSEStream translate mode emits SSE error (not synthetic text)
   assert.ok(failurePayload, "onFailure should be called");
   assert.equal(failurePayload.status, 502);
   assert.match(failurePayload.message, /empty response/i);
+  assert.equal(failurePayload.code, "empty_response", "code must identify the failure kind");
+  assert.ok(failurePayload.message.length > 0, "message must be non-empty");
+  assert.ok(failurePayload.status >= 500, "status must be a server error (5xx)");
+  assert.equal(completePayload, null, "onComplete must not fire when stream is empty");
 });
 
 test("createSSETransformStreamWithLogger flushes a trailing Claude usage event without a newline", async () => {