diff --git a/packages/cli/test/json-stdout-purity.e2e.test.ts b/packages/cli/test/json-stdout-purity.e2e.test.ts
index 7958e0a1c39..d30b0f4d06e 100644
--- a/packages/cli/test/json-stdout-purity.e2e.test.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/test/json-stdout-purity.e2e.test.ts
@@ -81,6 +81,14 @@ const COMMANDS_DIR = resolve(HERE, '../src/commands');
  */
 const FAMILY: Record<string, string[]> = {
   'meta resync': [],
+  // Its bare form boots: it takes the `os migrate plan` shape (`deferSchemaDdl`
+  // + `readOnlyProbe`), so a fixture with no database file is opened as an
+  // empty in-memory one rather than being brought into existence. No table
+  // exists there, so the face driven here is the command's REFUSAL face — the
+  // `emitJson(…, 1, { compact: true })` branch, which is the noisier of its two
+  // emit paths and therefore the one worth pinning: every driver and kernel
+  // diagnostic the failed scan produces is emitted before it.
+  'migrate account-issuer': [],
   'migrate apply': [],
   'migrate files-to-references': [],
   'migrate meta': ['--stored'],