diff --git a/crates/ecstore/src/disk/error.rs b/crates/ecstore/src/disk/error.rs
index 51fb04daa..9c2f1706c 100644
--- a/crates/ecstore/src/disk/error.rs
+++ b/crates/ecstore/src/disk/error.rs
@@ -853,13 +853,32 @@ mod tests {
 
     #[test]
     fn test_error_conversions() {
-        // Test From implementations
+        // A plain io::Error carries no typed payload to recover, so it lands in
+        // `Io` rather than being guessed at from its kind — `NotFound` here must
+        // not silently become `FileNotFound`, which quorum aggregation counts as
+        // a different error (rustfs/backlog#1836).
         let io_error = std::io::Error::new(std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound, "test");
-        let _disk_error: DiskError = io_error.into();
+        let disk_error: DiskError = io_error.into();
+        match &disk_error {
+            DiskError::Io(inner) => assert_eq!(inner.kind(), std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound),
+            other => panic!("a plain io::Error must stay typed as Io, got {other:?}"),
+        }
 
-        let json_str = r#"{"invalid": json}"#; // Invalid JSON
+        // A typed DiskError boxed through io::Error round-trips back to itself
+        // instead of degrading to `Io`.
+        let boxed: std::io::Error = std::io::Error::other(DiskError::VolumeNotFound);
+        assert_eq!(DiskError::from(boxed), DiskError::VolumeNotFound);
+
+        // serde_json errors have no dedicated variant and fold into `other`,
+        // keeping the original message.
+        let json_str = r#"{"invalid": json}"#;
         let json_error = serde_json::from_str::<serde_json::Value>(json_str).unwrap_err();
-        let _disk_error: DiskError = json_error.into();
+        let json_message = json_error.to_string();
+        let disk_error: DiskError = json_error.into();
+        assert!(
+            disk_error.to_string().contains(&json_message),
+            "the json error message must survive the conversion: {disk_error}"
+        );
     }
 
     #[test]
diff --git a/scripts/find_assertless_tests.py b/scripts/find_assertless_tests.py
index dc73447de..5b9f8ac9a 100755
--- a/scripts/find_assertless_tests.py
+++ b/scripts/find_assertless_tests.py
@@ -53,15 +53,38 @@ VERIFY_SIGNALS = re.compile(
     r"unreachable!|matches!\(|insta::|proptest!|\.await\?|\)\?|\?;|should_panic"
 )
 DELEGATION = re.compile(
-    r"\b(?:assert|verify|check|expect|ensure|run)_[a-z0-9_]*\s*\(|"
-    r"\b[a-z0-9_]+_(?:case|cases|harness|roundtrip|round_trip)\s*\("
+    r"\b(?:assert|verify|check|expect|ensure|run)_[a-z0-9_]*(?:::<[^>]*>)?\s*\(|"
+    r"\b[a-z0-9_]+_(?:case|cases|harness|roundtrip|round_trip)(?:::<[^>]*>)?\s*\("
 )
+
+# A body whose whole content is one call delegates by construction, whatever the
+# callee is named: `run(DurabilityMode::Strict).await` and
+# `aborting_encode_drops_blocked_producer(EncodePipeline::Vec).await` both hand
+# every assertion to a shared harness.
+SINGLE_CALL_BODY = re.compile(
+    r"\A\s*[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_:]*(?:::<[^>]*>)?\s*\([^;]*\)\s*(?:\.await\s*)?;?\s*\Z",
+    re.S,
+)
+
+# A nested `fn` that is only bound and discarded is a signature guard: the type
+# system is the assertion, exactly like the `fn _name()` form below.
+SIGNATURE_GUARD = re.compile(r"\bfn\s+[a-zA-Z0-9_]+\s*(?:<[^>]*>)?\s*\([^;]*\)[^;]*\{", re.S)
+DISCARDED_BINDING = re.compile(r"\blet\s+_\s*=\s*[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*\s*;")
 COMPILE_TIME_CHECK = re.compile(r"\bfn\s+_[a-zA-Z0-9_]*\s*(?:<[^>]*>)?\s*\(")
 TEST_ATTR = re.compile(r"#\[(?:tokio::)?test[\](]")
 TEST_CASE_ATTR = re.compile(r"#\[test_case")
 FN_LINE = re.compile(r"^\s*(?:pub\s+)?(?:async\s+)?fn\s+([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)")
 
 
+def extract_body(text: str) -> str:
+    """Return what is between the outermost braces of a scanned function."""
+    start = text.find("{")
+    end = text.rfind("}")
+    if start == -1 or end <= start:
+        return text
+    return text[start + 1 : end]
+
+
 def scan_file(path: Path):
     try:
         lines = path.read_text(encoding="utf-8").split("\n")
@@ -105,7 +128,16 @@ def scan_file(path: Path):
                 break
             k += 1
         text = "\n".join(body)
-        if not VERIFY_SIGNALS.search(text) and not DELEGATION.search(text) and not COMPILE_TIME_CHECK.search(text):
+        # The attribute block carries verification too: `#[should_panic(expected
+        # = "...")]` makes the panic message the assertion.
+        attr_text = "\n".join(attrs)
+        inner = extract_body(text)
+        delegates = (
+            DELEGATION.search(text)
+            or SINGLE_CALL_BODY.match(inner)
+            or (SIGNATURE_GUARD.search(inner) and DISCARDED_BINDING.search(inner))
+        )
+        if not VERIFY_SIGNALS.search(text) and not VERIFY_SIGNALS.search(attr_text) and not delegates and not COMPILE_TIME_CHECK.search(text):
             print(f"{path}:{j + 1}: {name}")
         i = k + 1