diff --git a/crates/aura-registry/src/lib.rs b/crates/aura-registry/src/lib.rs
index cd308df..520ddf5 100644
--- a/crates/aura-registry/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/aura-registry/src/lib.rs
@@ -1175,6 +1175,62 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(ranked[0].metrics.total_pips, 3.0); // best-first within the family
     }
 
+    // Property: concurrent writers through the Registry append path leave the
+    // family store well-formed. When N threads share one registry handle (the
+    // #277 parallel cell loop's caller shape — exec.rs hands each cell the same
+    // `&Registry`) and each appends families to the shared `families.jsonl`,
+    // every member of every successful append must survive as its own complete,
+    // parseable JSON line — none torn, merged into a neighbour, or lost. Today's
+    // unsynchronized OpenOptions::append + writeln! interleaves the content and
+    // newline writes of concurrent appends, merging records onto one physical
+    // line so the store no longer parses.
+    #[test]
+    fn concurrent_appends_keep_the_family_store_well_formed() {
+        let path = temp_family_dir("concurrent");
+        let reg = Registry::open(&path);
+        // Inline input: four distinct members per family, appended under a name
+        // unique to each (thread, iteration) so a clean store holds exactly
+        // `successful_appends * members` lines.
+        let members: Vec<RunReport> = (0..4).map(|k| report_with(k as f64, 0.5, 1)).collect();
+        let per_append = members.len();
+        let n_threads = 8usize;
+        let iters = 50usize;
+
+        let total_ok: usize = std::thread::scope(|scope| {
+            let handles: Vec<_> = (0..n_threads)
+                .map(|tid| {
+                    let reg = &reg;
+                    let members = &members;
+                    scope.spawn(move || {
+                        let mut ok = 0usize;
+                        for iter in 0..iters {
+                            let name = format!("t{tid}-f{iter}");
+                            if reg.append_family(&name, FamilyKind::Sweep, members).is_ok() {
+                                ok += 1;
+                            }
+                        }
+                        ok
+                    })
+                })
+                .collect();
+            handles.into_iter().map(|h| h.join().expect("worker thread joined")).sum()
+        });
+
+        let loaded = reg.load_family_members();
+        assert!(
+            loaded.is_ok(),
+            "concurrent appends must leave a parseable store; the writes corrupted it: {:?}",
+            loaded.err(),
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            loaded.expect("store parses").len(),
+            total_ok * per_append,
+            "every member of every successful append must survive as its own intact line",
+        );
+
+        let _ = fs::remove_dir_all(path.parent().expect("temp family dir"));
+    }
+
     fn member(total_pips: f64, net_trade_rs: Vec<f64>) -> SweepPoint {
         // Every RMetrics field is derived from the R slice by `r_metrics_from_rs`
         // (the same arithmetic production members carry), then the per-trade