diff --git a/meshed/tests/test_ch_funcs.py b/meshed/tests/test_ch_funcs.py
index 13dd0a9..77782ff 100644
--- a/meshed/tests/test_ch_funcs.py
+++ b/meshed/tests/test_ch_funcs.py
@@ -1,13 +1,45 @@
+"""Tests for ``meshed.dag.ch_funcs`` -- changing the functions of existing func nodes.
+
+Besides the behaviour of ``ch_funcs`` itself, this module pins how ``ch_funcs`` may be
+*called*: it is built with ``i2.double_up_as_factory``, so it must decorate when given
+func nodes and only make a factory when not given any -- whether the func nodes are
+passed positionally or by keyword.
+"""
+
+from functools import partial
+from typing import NamedTuple
+
 import meshed as ms
 import pytest
 
 import meshed.base
 import meshed.util
-from meshed.dag import ch_funcs, _validate_func_mapping
+from meshed.dag import DAG, ch_funcs, _validate_func_mapping
 from meshed.tests.objects_for_testing import f, g
 from meshed.base import compare_signatures
-from i2 import Sig
-from typing import NamedTuple
+from i2 import Sig, double_up_as_factory
+
+
+def _wrapped_by_keyword_is_supported() -> bool:
+    """Whether the installed ``i2`` accepts a decorator's wrapped object by keyword.
+
+    Before `i2mint/i2#82 <https://github.com/i2mint/i2/pull/82>`_,
+    ``double_up_as_factory`` decided between "decorate this" and "make a factory" by
+    looking only at the first *positional* argument.  A wrapped object passed by
+    keyword therefore landed in ``**kwargs`` and the decorator silently returned a
+    ``functools.partial`` factory instead of the decorated object.
+    """
+
+    @double_up_as_factory
+    def probe(obj=None, *, unused=None):
+        return obj
+
+    return probe(obj=int) is int
+
+
+#: Whether ``ch_funcs(func_nodes=...)`` decorates (True) or wrongly returns a factory
+#: (False).  Depends on the installed ``i2`` -- see ``_wrapped_by_keyword_is_supported``.
+I2_SUPPORTS_WRAPPED_BY_KEYWORD = _wrapped_by_keyword_is_supported()
 
 
 @pytest.fixture
@@ -25,18 +57,45 @@ def example_func_mapping():
 
 
 def test_ch_funcs_no_change(example_func_nodes):
+    """Mapping every func node to the function it already has changes nothing."""
     funcs = [f, g]
     nodes = list(example_func_nodes)
     names = [node.name for node in nodes]
 
     dummy_mapping = dict(zip(names, funcs))
 
-    new_dag = ch_funcs(
-        func_nodes=nodes,
-        func_mapping=dummy_mapping,
-    )
-    new_nodes = new_dag().func_nodes
-    assert nodes == new_nodes
+    new_dag = ch_funcs(nodes, func_mapping=dummy_mapping)
+
+    assert isinstance(new_dag, DAG)
+    assert nodes == new_dag.func_nodes
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif(
+    not I2_SUPPORTS_WRAPPED_BY_KEYWORD,
+    reason=(
+        "installed i2 predates i2mint/i2#82, so a double_up_as_factory decorator "
+        "given its wrapped object by keyword wrongly returns a factory"
+    ),
+)
+def test_ch_funcs_takes_func_nodes_by_keyword(example_func_nodes):
+    """``ch_funcs(func_nodes=...)`` must decorate, not return a factory.
+
+    Regression pin for `i2mint/i2#82 <https://github.com/i2mint/i2/pull/82>`_: passing
+    the func nodes by keyword must mean exactly what passing them positionally means.
+    Before that fix it returned a ``functools.partial``, and call sites papered over it
+    with a trailing ``()`` -- which this test exists to stop coming back.
+    """
+    funcs = [f, g]
+    nodes = list(example_func_nodes)
+    dummy_mapping = dict(zip([node.name for node in nodes], funcs))
+
+    new_dag = ch_funcs(func_nodes=nodes, func_mapping=dummy_mapping)
+
+    assert not isinstance(new_dag, partial), "ch_funcs wrongly returned a factory"
+    assert isinstance(new_dag, DAG)
+    assert nodes == new_dag.func_nodes
+    # ...and it agrees with the positional form
+    assert new_dag.func_nodes == ch_funcs(nodes, func_mapping=dummy_mapping).func_nodes
 
 
 class FlagWithMessage(NamedTuple):