diff --git a/tests/features/tech-log/mock-studio-gateway.test.ts b/tests/features/tech-log/mock-studio-gateway.test.ts
index 6cd3928..8d3b668 100644
--- a/tests/features/tech-log/mock-studio-gateway.test.ts
+++ b/tests/features/tech-log/mock-studio-gateway.test.ts
@@ -597,3 +597,45 @@ test("publication history, immutable snapshots, conflict fixtures and 404 bodies
     isProblem(404, "PUBLICATION_EVENT_NOT_FOUND"),
   );
 });
+
+test("dashboard totals.needsValidation matches the documents whose next action is to validate or fix validation", async () => {
+  const gateway = gatewayAt();
+  const dashboard = await gateway.getDashboard();
+  const documents = await gateway.listDocuments({ limit: 100 });
+
+  const expected = documents.items.filter(
+    (item) =>
+      item.nextAction === "VALIDATE" || item.nextAction === "FIX_VALIDATION",
+  ).length;
+  // Cross-checked against `listDocuments`, not against the dashboard's own
+  // arithmetic, so a broken `needsValidation` filter shows up as a mismatch
+  // instead of being restated. Both branches (>0 and <total) must hold, or a
+  // filter that always returns 0 or the full count would still pass silently.
+  assert.ok(expected > 0);
+  assert.ok(expected < documents.items.length);
+  assert.equal(dashboard.totals.needsValidation, expected);
+});
+
+test("getDocument's nextAction reflects the assembled WorkingCopyDetail, not a cached or default value", async () => {
+  const gateway = gatewayAt();
+
+  // Published at exactly the current version (fixtures.ts: publishedVersion 4
+  // === document version 4) is deriveNextAction's first, clock-independent
+  // branch: nextAction must be "NONE" regardless of validation or preview state.
+  const redis = await gateway.getDocument(FIXTURE_IDS.redisAdapterCase);
+  assert.equal(redis.document.version, 4);
+  assert.equal(redis.currentPublication?.status, "PUBLISHED");
+  assert.equal(redis.currentPublication?.publishedVersion, 4);
+  assert.equal(redis.nextAction, "NONE");
+
+  // Not published, and validated INVALID at the current version within the
+  // validity window: nextAction must be "FIX_VALIDATION", which only follows
+  // from currentValidation actually being read and its freshness actually
+  // computed - a value a hardcoded or wrongly-sourced default would not produce.
+  const edgeToken = await gateway.getDocument(FIXTURE_IDS.edgeTokenQuestion);
+  assert.equal(edgeToken.document.version, 2);
+  assert.equal(edgeToken.currentPublication, null);
+  assert.equal(edgeToken.currentValidation?.status, "INVALID");
+  assert.equal(edgeToken.currentValidation?.validatedVersion, 2);
+  assert.equal(edgeToken.nextAction, "FIX_VALIDATION");
+});