diff --git a/openfut-utas-host/tests/host_test.rs b/openfut-utas-host/tests/host_test.rs
index 7bb3cfc..e18844f 100644
--- a/openfut-utas-host/tests/host_test.rs
+++ b/openfut-utas-host/tests/host_test.rs
@@ -2230,7 +2230,6 @@ fn position_tabs_serve_only_their_own_position_group() {
 #[test]
 fn withheld_club_type_arms_are_empty_with_a_recorded_reason() {
     for (query, reason) in [
-        ("type=equippables", "multi_family_crash_2026_08_05"),
         ("type=leaguelogos", "subtype_by_elimination_unprobed"),
         ("type=healing", "served_by_club_consumables_route"),
         ("type=contract", "served_by_club_consumables_route"),
@@ -2254,6 +2253,35 @@ fn withheld_club_type_arms_are_empty_with_a_recorded_reason() {
     }
 }
 
+/// `?type=equippables` is the family the MY CLUB kit tab actually asks for, and it
+/// answers with the KIT family only. Withholding it WAS the "0 kits in my club"
+/// symptom — the tab asked, got the withheld empty body, and drew nothing. Serving
+/// it is operator-confirmed on the retail client.
+///
+/// Kits only, deliberately: the 2026-08-05 crash was 30 items across five families
+/// at once, and nothing has retested that shape.
+///
+/// NOT exercised here: `OPENFUT_FIFA17_EQUIPPABLES=0`, which restores the withheld
+/// body. It is read through a `OnceLock`, so flipping the process-wide env inside
+/// one test would leak into every other test sharing this binary.
+#[test]
+fn equippables_serves_the_kit_family_because_that_is_the_my_club_kit_tab() {
+    let (items, _, outcome) = club_query("type=equippables");
+    assert_eq!(outcome, "ok");
+    assert_eq!(items.len(), 2, "the fixture club owns exactly two kits");
+    for it in &items {
+        assert_eq!(it["itemType"], "kit");
+        assert_eq!(
+            it["cardsubtypeid"], 9,
+            "kits only: mixing families is the shape that crashed the client"
+        );
+    }
+
+    // The two tabs are the same question, so they must never diverge.
+    let (kits, _, _) = club_query("type=kit");
+    assert_eq!(items, kits, "equippables and kit must serve one body");
+}
+
 /// The three club-customisation families Core can own are MAPPED (so the arm asks
 /// Core for the right rows) but their item record is still withheld, so the answer
 /// is an empty list rather than a guessed record — and never another family's.