diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 89a4c55..e0a0287 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $(cat ~/.coolify-token)" \
   - `__tests__/hosts.test.js` — matrice exhaustive des endpoints postes (155 cas : regex de route comme controle anti-traversee, 401 avant 403, cloisonnement des deux tokens, 503 fail-closed, reconstruction par liste blanche, 413, `neverSeen`, fraicheur serveur sous horloge figee, degradation de lecture)
   - `__tests__/agent.test.js` — agent poste (50 cas : contrat de payload verifie contre `sanitizeSnapshot()`, une seule tentative sans rejeu, timeout, codes de sortie, wrapper shell, et **le token absent de toute sortie d'echec, fragments de 5 caracteres compris**)
 - Runtime reste 0-dep ; vitest en devDep uniquement
-- `bash test-curl.sh` — passe au niveau socket, complementaire et non redondante (41 cas). Vitest couvre la logique ; ce script couvre ce que seuls un vrai client et un vrai TCP peuvent montrer : le 413 rendu **avant** que la connexion soit coupee, les deux tokens qui se refusent mutuellement leurs routes, et le 503 d'une instance demarree sans `HOSTS_INGEST_TOKEN` (elle tourne sur un second port, le temps du script). Il boote ses propres serveurs sur 3099 et 3098 — aucun service exterieur requis.
+- `bash test-curl.sh` — passe au niveau socket, complementaire et non redondante (45 cas). Vitest couvre la logique ; ce script couvre ce que seuls un vrai client et un vrai TCP peuvent montrer : le 413 rendu **avant** que la connexion soit coupee, les deux tokens qui se refusent mutuellement leurs routes, le fichier servi octet pour octet par `/defenseurs/state`, et le 503 d'une instance demarree sans `HOSTS_INGEST_TOKEN` (elle tourne sur un second port, le temps du script). Il boote ses propres serveurs sur 3099 et 3098 — aucun service exterieur requis.
 
 ## Gotchas
 
diff --git a/test-curl.sh b/test-curl.sh
index fee00a3..e9c0058 100755
--- a/test-curl.sh
+++ b/test-curl.sh
@@ -126,11 +126,18 @@ JSON
 # be writable — the same requirement the /data/hosts mount carries in prod.
 mkdir -p "$TMP_DIR/hosts"
 
+# Sergent findings state, served verbatim by GET /defenseurs/state. The spacing
+# is deliberately non-canonical: a server that parsed and re-serialised the file
+# would not reproduce it byte for byte.
+printf '%s\n' '{ "schemaVersion":1,  "findings": {"a-deps-1": {"firstSeen":"2026-09-01T00:00:00.000Z"}},"history":[] }' \
+  > "$TMP_DIR/findings-state.json"
+
 # Boot the server with the temp REPORTS_DIR and HOSTS_DIR.
 PORT=3099 \
 HEALTH_TOKEN="$TOKEN" \
 REPORTS_DIR="$TMP_DIR/reports" \
 HOSTS_DIR="$TMP_DIR/hosts" \
+DEFENSEURS_FINDINGS_STATE_PATH="$TMP_DIR/findings-state.json" \
 HOSTS_ALLOWED_IDS="thinkpad,workbench" \
 HOSTS_INGEST_TOKEN="$INGEST_TOKEN" \
 LOGTO_HEALTH_URL="http://127.0.0.1:1/never" \
@@ -145,6 +152,7 @@ PORT=3098 \
 HEALTH_TOKEN="$TOKEN" \
 REPORTS_DIR="$TMP_DIR/reports" \
 HOSTS_DIR="$TMP_DIR/hosts-noingest" \
+DEFENSEURS_FINDINGS_STATE_PATH="$TMP_DIR/absent-findings-state.json" \
 HOSTS_ALLOWED_IDS="thinkpad" \
 LOGTO_HEALTH_URL="http://127.0.0.1:1/never" \
 node "$(dirname "$0")/index.js" >/dev/null 2>&1 &
@@ -444,6 +452,24 @@ code=$(http_code -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer $INGEST_TOKEN" -H "Content-Ty
 code=$(http_code -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" "$NOINGEST_URL/hosts")
 [[ "$code" == "200" ]] && pass "no HOSTS_INGEST_TOKEN -> GET /hosts still 200" || fail "read path on fail-closed instance -> got $code"
 
+# Case 32 : GET /defenseurs/state serves findings-state.json byte for byte.
+# Compared through files so the trailing newline is part of the comparison
+# (command substitution would strip it).
+http_body -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" "$BASE_URL/defenseurs/state" > "$TMP_DIR/state-served.json"
+cmp -s "$TMP_DIR/state-served.json" "$TMP_DIR/findings-state.json" \
+  && pass "GET /defenseurs/state -> file served byte for byte" \
+  || fail "GET /defenseurs/state -> body differs from the file"
+# Absent file -> 200 no_data, the same contract as /defenseurs.
+body=$(http_body -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" "$NOINGEST_URL/defenseurs/state")
+[[ "$body" == '{"status":"no_data"}' ]] \
+  && pass "GET /defenseurs/state, file absent -> no_data" \
+  || fail "GET /defenseurs/state absent -> $body"
+code=$(http_code "$BASE_URL/defenseurs/state")
+[[ "$code" == "401" ]] && pass "GET /defenseurs/state no-auth -> 401" || fail "GET /defenseurs/state no-auth -> got $code"
+# A read route: the ingest token must not open it.
+code=$(http_code -H "Authorization: Bearer $INGEST_TOKEN" "$BASE_URL/defenseurs/state")
+[[ "$code" == "401" ]] && pass "GET /defenseurs/state with ingest token -> 401" || fail "GET /defenseurs/state ingest token -> got $code"
+
 echo
 echo "=== Results: $PASS passed, $FAIL failed ==="
 [[ "$FAIL" == "0" ]] || exit 1