diff --git a/src/brainy.ts b/src/brainy.ts
index 6ebce2fd..db332e18 100644
--- a/src/brainy.ts
+++ b/src/brainy.ts
@@ -14221,16 +14221,29 @@ export class Brainy<T = any> implements BrainyInterface<T> {
         const report = await fn.call(provider)
         if (report && Array.isArray(report.invariants)) reports.push(report)
       } catch (err) {
+        // ONE CONTRACT FOR A THROWING PROBE, both engines: a probe that throws
+        // is `heal: 'none'` with the error in `detail` — flakiness can never
+        // buy a rebuild, and a thrown check never changes `serving` (the
+        // provider's serving verdict is composed by the provider, not inferred
+        // from a probe that failed to run). This catch used to synthesize
+        // `heal: 'rebuild'` — the read-triggered dark-rebuild lever one
+        // transient exception away — while the native composer said 'none';
+        // two components disagreeing on what a throw means is how a flaky
+        // probe became an outage. `healthy: false` stays: an unrunnable probe
+        // is a named, loud, unverified state, never a clean bill.
+        const name = typeof (provider as { name?: string })?.name === 'string'
+          ? (provider as { name: string }).name
+          : 'unknown'
         reports.push({
-          provider: 'unknown',
+          provider: name,
           healthy: false,
-          serving: false,
+          serving: true,
           invariants: [
             {
               name: 'validate-invariants-threw',
               holds: false,
               detail: `validateInvariants() threw (contract violation — it must never throw): ${(err as Error).message}`,
-              heal: 'rebuild'
+              heal: 'none'
             }
           ],
           checkedAt: Date.now(),
diff --git a/src/types/brainy.types.ts b/src/types/brainy.types.ts
index ce3236e9..78e310f3 100644
--- a/src/types/brainy.types.ts
+++ b/src/types/brainy.types.ts
@@ -1200,10 +1200,23 @@ export interface RelateManyParams<T = any> {
  */
 export interface RepairFamilyReport {
   family: string
+  /** The family was actually examined (false = skipped; see `skipped`/`reason`). */
   checked: boolean
+  /** Items re-posted / corrected in place — the incremental heal count. */
   healed: number
+  /**
+   * What the check found missing or divergent, when it can name it: an exact
+   * count plus a capped sample of ids (never the whole list — a report is a
+   * verdict, not a dump). Absent when the family has nothing to name.
+   */
+  missing?: { count: number; sample: string[] }
+  /** A full generational rebuild of this family ran (as opposed to an incremental heal). */
+  rebuilt?: boolean
   detail?: string
+  /** Why the family was not checked (`checked: false`). */
   skipped?: string
+  /** Why the outcome is what it is when neither `detail` nor `skipped` says it. */
+  reason?: string
 }
 
 /** The full receipt returned by repairIndex(). */
diff --git a/tests/unit/validate-invariants-delegation.test.ts b/tests/unit/validate-invariants-delegation.test.ts
index 45e12ccd..a5def81f 100644
--- a/tests/unit/validate-invariants-delegation.test.ts
+++ b/tests/unit/validate-invariants-delegation.test.ts
@@ -77,6 +77,31 @@ describe('validateIndexConsistency delegates to provider validateInvariants() (P
     delete brain.index.validateInvariants
   })
 
+  it('ONE CONTRACT FOR A THROWING PROBE: heal is none (flakiness never buys a rebuild) and serving is not withheld', async () => {
+    // The probe that fails to RUN must never be read as "the index is broken,
+    // rebuild it" — that synthesized heal:'rebuild' was the dark-rebuild lever
+    // one transient exception away, and the native composer already said
+    // 'none' for the same event. Both engines now agree: named, loud,
+    // unverified — and never a rebuild, never a withheld serve.
+    brain.index.validateInvariants = async () => { throw new Error('transient: mmap window busy') }
+    const v = await brain.validateIndexConsistency()
+    const thrown = v.providers?.find((p: ProviderInvariantReport) =>
+      p.invariants.some((i) => i.name === 'validate-invariants-threw')
+    )
+    expect(thrown).toBeDefined()
+    expect(thrown!.healthy).toBe(false)
+    expect(thrown!.serving).toBe(true)
+    const inv = thrown!.invariants.find((i) => i.name === 'validate-invariants-threw')!
+    expect(inv.holds).toBe(false)
+    expect(inv.heal).toBe('none')
+    expect(inv.detail).toMatch(/transient: mmap window busy/)
+    // No provider report in the set recommends a rebuild for this event.
+    expect(
+      v.providers!.flatMap((p: ProviderInvariantReport) => p.invariants).some((i) => i.heal === 'rebuild')
+    ).toBe(false)
+    delete brain.index.validateInvariants
+  })
+
   it('providers without validateInvariants() are omitted (JS baseline unchanged)', async () => {
     const v = await brain.validateIndexConsistency()
     expect(v.providers).toBeUndefined()