diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-crates.yml b/.github/workflows/test-crates.yml
index b2f4ffcb7..8c22eb6d8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test-crates.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-crates.yml
@@ -103,3 +103,48 @@ jobs:
           if [ -n "$hits" ]; then
             echo "::error::qbzd graph resolves Slint crates:"; echo "$hits"; exit 1
           fi
+
+  # The job above is Linux-only, which is where the platform-sensitive crates
+  # are *least* likely to break: the two bugs this job exists for both shipped
+  # on macOS while Linux was fine.
+  #
+  #   - qbz-secrets picks a keyring backend per platform, and picked an
+  #     in-memory mock on macOS and Windows whose writes silently succeed.
+  #   - qbz-offline-cache resolves bundle paths under an app directory that
+  #     only moves on macOS-derived platforms (iOS reassigns the data
+  #     container; the desktop cache root is stable).
+  #
+  # Deliberately narrow: two crates, no ALSA/JACK/D-Bus, no UI graph, so this
+  # stays a couple of minutes on a runner billed at 10x Linux. Add
+  # `windows-latest` to the matrix if the same class of bug turns up there —
+  # the tests are already platform-agnostic.
+  platform-sensitive:
+    name: cargo test (secrets + offline cache, ${{ matrix.os }})
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        os: [macos-14]
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    timeout-minutes: 15
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
+
+      - name: Setup Rust
+        uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable
+
+      - name: Rust cache
+        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
+        with:
+          workspaces: crates -> target
+          shared-key: test-crates-${{ matrix.os }}
+          cache-on-failure: true
+          save-if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/pre-release' }}
+
+      - name: cargo test
+        env:
+          CARGO_TERM_COLOR: always
+          CARGO_BUILD_JOBS: "3"
+        run: |
+          cargo test --manifest-path crates/Cargo.toml \
+            -p qbz-secrets -p qbz-offline-cache --no-fail-fast
diff --git a/crates/qbz-secrets/tests/survives_a_restart.rs b/crates/qbz-secrets/tests/survives_a_restart.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3b1adf610
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/qbz-secrets/tests/survives_a_restart.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+//! The one property this crate exists for, and the one no in-process test can
+//! demonstrate: a secret wrapped by one run of the app can be unwrapped by the
+//! next.
+//!
+//! Everything else here passes whether or not that holds. A single process can
+//! wrap and unwrap against a master key that never left memory and never
+//! reached a store, which is exactly what keyring's `mock` backend hands back
+//! when no platform feature is enabled — silently, while `Backend::new` reports
+//! `BackendKind::Keyring`. That shipped on macOS and Windows and cost every
+//! offline download its content key on the next launch.
+//!
+//! So this test crosses a process boundary. It re-executes the test binary,
+//! wraps in the child, then re-executes again and unwraps in a second child.
+//!
+//! Deliberately **backend-agnostic**: it asserts persistence, not which store
+//! provided it. The KDF fallback satisfies it too (its install id is on disk),
+//! so a runner with no secret-service is a pass rather than a flake — while the
+//! mock, which satisfies neither, fails everywhere.
+
+use std::path::Path;
+use std::process::Command;
+
+/// Set on the children. Its value is the half of the exchange to perform.
+const ROLE: &str = "QBZ_SECRETS_RESTART_ROLE";
+const SERVICE: &str = "QBZ_SECRETS_RESTART_SERVICE";
+const DIR: &str = "QBZ_SECRETS_RESTART_DIR";
+
+const SECRET: &[u8; 16] = b"0123456789abcdef";
+
+#[test]
+fn a_wrapped_secret_survives_a_process_restart() {
+    if let Ok(role) = std::env::var(ROLE) {
+        run_child(&role);
+        return;
+    }
+
+    let dir = tempfile::tempdir().expect("tempdir");
+    // Unique per run so concurrent jobs — and a developer's real qbz entry —
+    // never collide. Cleaned up at the end.
+    let service = format!(
+        "qbz-secrets-test-{}-{}",
+        std::process::id(),
+        std::time::SystemTime::now()
+            .duration_since(std::time::UNIX_EPOCH)
+            .expect("clock")
+            .as_nanos()
+    );
+
+    let wrapped = spawn_self("wrap", &service, dir.path());
+    assert!(
+        wrapped.status.success(),
+        "the first run could not wrap a secret:\n{}",
+        String::from_utf8_lossy(&wrapped.stderr)
+    );
+
+    let unwrapped = spawn_self("unwrap", &service, dir.path());
+    let stderr = String::from_utf8_lossy(&unwrapped.stderr).into_owned();
+
+    forget(&service);
+
+    assert!(
+        unwrapped.status.success(),
+        "a secret wrapped by one process could not be unwrapped by the next — \
+         the master key did not outlive the process that made it:\n{stderr}"
+    );
+}
+
+/// Re-execute this test binary with `ROLE` set, so the child runs the body
+/// above and takes the branch at the top.
+fn spawn_self(role: &str, service: &str, dir: &Path) -> std::process::Output {
+    Command::new(std::env::current_exe().expect("current_exe"))
+        .args([
+            "--exact",
+            "a_wrapped_secret_survives_a_process_restart",
+            "--nocapture",
+        ])
+        .env(ROLE, role)
+        .env(SERVICE, service)
+        .env(DIR, dir)
+        .output()
+        .expect("re-exec the test binary")
+}
+
+fn run_child(role: &str) {
+    let service = std::env::var(SERVICE).expect(SERVICE);
+    let dir = std::env::var(DIR).expect(DIR);
+    let blob = Path::new(&dir).join("wrapped.bin");
+
+    let vault = qbz_secrets::SecretBox::open(&service, Path::new(&dir))
+        .unwrap_or_else(|e| panic!("open the vault: {e}"));
+    eprintln!("child role={role} backend={:?}", vault.backend_kind());
+
+    match role {
+        "wrap" => {
+            let wrapped = vault.wrap(SECRET).unwrap_or_else(|e| panic!("wrap: {e}"));
+            std::fs::write(&blob, wrapped).expect("write the wrapped blob");
+        }
+        _ => {
+            let wrapped = std::fs::read(&blob).expect("read the wrapped blob");
+            let plain = vault.unwrap(&wrapped).unwrap_or_else(|e| panic!("unwrap: {e}"));
+            assert_eq!(plain, SECRET, "the secret came back changed");
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Drop the entry this run created. Best-effort: the KDF fallback never made
+/// one, and a store that refuses the delete is not this test's business.
+#[cfg(not(any(target_os = "android", target_os = "ios")))]
+fn forget(service: &str) {
+    if let Ok(entry) = keyring::Entry::new(service, "master-key-v1") {
+        let _ = entry.delete_credential();
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(any(target_os = "android", target_os = "ios"))]
+fn forget(_service: &str) {}