diff --git a/apps/desktop/electron/native-oauth.test.ts b/apps/desktop/electron/native-oauth.test.ts
index 38abae643be..bf58ca996ef 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/electron/native-oauth.test.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/electron/native-oauth.test.ts
@@ -193,6 +193,19 @@ test('parseStoredTokenSet maps the encrypted on-disk camelCase shape', () => {
   assert.equal(t.userId, 'u-stored')
 })
 
+test('parseTokenResponse cannot read a persisted set (the reload bug #73271)', () => {
+  // Guards against regressing to the wrong parser on the reload path: a
+  // persisted camelCase set has no snake_case access_token, so the raw-response
+  // parser throws — which is exactly why the stored path must use
+  // parseStoredTokenSet instead.
+  const persisted = JSON.parse(
+    JSON.stringify({ accessToken: 'AT', refreshToken: 'RT', expiresAt: 1, provider: 'nous', userId: 'u' })
+  )
+
+  assert.throws(() => parseTokenResponse(persisted), /missing access_token/i)
+  assert.equal(parseStoredTokenSet(persisted).accessToken, 'AT')
+})
+
 test('parseStoredTokenSet rejects a non-normalized server response', () => {
   assert.throws(
     () => parseStoredTokenSet({ access_token: 'AT-server' }),