diff --git a/tests/renderer-dom/taskManagerFlows.test.tsx b/tests/renderer-dom/taskManagerFlows.test.tsx
index 026fd508..8571441a 100644
--- a/tests/renderer-dom/taskManagerFlows.test.tsx
+++ b/tests/renderer-dom/taskManagerFlows.test.tsx
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import type { ReactElement, ReactNode } from "react"
-import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest"
+import { describe, expect, it, onTestFinished, vi } from "vitest"
 import { act, renderHook, waitFor } from "@testing-library/react"
 import type { RenderHookResult } from "@testing-library/react"
 
@@ -79,7 +79,30 @@ describe("taskReducer", () => {
 
 describe("useTaskContext", () => {
   it("throws when used outside a TaskProvider", () => {
-    expect(() => renderHook(() => useTaskContext())).toThrow(/must be used within an TaskProvider/)
+    // The throw is caught inside the component on purpose. A render throw
+    // that escapes reaches React's dev-only replay, which rethrows it
+    // through a synthetic DOM event so devtools can see it; jsdom turns that
+    // into an uncancelled window "error" event, and Vitest's jsdom
+    // environment re-emits such an event as an uncaught exception that fails
+    // the whole run and gets pinned on whichever file happened to be running.
+    const consoleError = vi.spyOn(console, "error")
+    onTestFinished(() => consoleError.mockRestore())
+
+    let thrown: unknown
+    renderHook(() => {
+      try {
+        useTaskContext()
+      } catch (error) {
+        thrown = error
+      }
+    })
+
+    expect(thrown).toBeInstanceOf(Error)
+    expect((thrown as Error).message).toMatch(/must be used within an TaskProvider/)
+    // React logs "The above error occurred in ..." for every render throw it
+    // has to handle itself, so this fails right here if the throw is ever let
+    // out of the component again.
+    expect(consoleError).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
   })
 })