diff --git a/crates/aura-cli/tests/research_docs.rs b/crates/aura-cli/tests/research_docs.rs
index 87ab115..7b4ef46 100644
--- a/crates/aura-cli/tests/research_docs.rs
+++ b/crates/aura-cli/tests/research_docs.rs
@@ -596,6 +596,42 @@ fn campaign_validate_outside_project_skips_referential_tier() {
     assert!(out.contains("referential checks skipped (no Aura.toml found up from "));
 }
 
+/// #305: `register` outside a project (no Aura.toml up from the cwd) refuses
+/// up front — exit 1, prose naming the invoked verb and the missing Aura.toml
+/// (the honest-degradation guard family `show`, `campaign runs`, and the
+/// dissolved run verbs already share) — and leaves NO store. Today the missing
+/// `env.provenance()` guard lets `Env::registry()`'s relative `runs/` fallback
+/// silently materialise `./runs/` in the innocent cwd and register the
+/// document into a store no project owns, exit 0.
+#[test]
+fn register_outside_a_project_refuses_and_leaves_no_store() {
+    for (verb, file, doc) in [
+        ("process", "p.process.json", PROCESS_DOC),
+        ("campaign", "c.campaign.json", CAMPAIGN_DOC),
+    ] {
+        let dir = temp_cwd(&format!("{verb}-register-outside-project"));
+        write_doc(&dir, file, doc);
+        let (out, code) = run_code_in(&dir, &[verb, "register", file]);
+        assert_eq!(
+            code,
+            Some(1),
+            "{verb} register outside a project must refuse; stdout/stderr: {out}"
+        );
+        assert!(
+            out.contains(&format!("{verb} register needs a project")),
+            "{verb} register's refusal must name the invoked verb: {out}"
+        );
+        assert!(
+            out.contains("no Aura.toml found up from"),
+            "{verb} register's refusal must name the missing Aura.toml: {out}"
+        );
+        assert!(
+            !dir.join("runs").exists(),
+            "{verb} register refused outside a project must leave no ./runs/ store"
+        );
+    }
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn campaign_validate_refuses_empty_axis_prose_exit_1() {
     let dir = temp_cwd("campaign-validate-empty-axis");