diff --git a/crates/aura-runner/src/reproduce.rs b/crates/aura-runner/src/reproduce.rs
index 5ba134c..85320a6 100644
--- a/crates/aura-runner/src/reproduce.rs
+++ b/crates/aura-runner/src/reproduce.rs
@@ -232,3 +232,69 @@ pub fn reproduce_family(id: &str, env: &Env) -> Result<(), RunnerError> {
     }
     Ok(())
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use aura_backtest::{RunMetrics, RunReport};
+    use aura_core::{Scalar, Timestamp};
+    use aura_engine::RunManifest;
+    use aura_registry::{FamilyKind, Registry};
+
+    use super::load_family;
+
+    /// A registry over a fresh per-test directory (the #258 tag-keyed pattern:
+    /// fixed name under the build-tree tmp anchor, pre-create wipe).
+    fn temp_registry(tag: &str) -> Registry {
+        let dir = std::path::Path::new(concat!(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"), "/../../target/tmp"))
+            .join(format!("aura-runner-reproduce-{tag}"));
+        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).expect("create temp registry dir");
+        Registry::open(dir.join("runs.jsonl"))
+    }
+
+    /// One minimal persisted member (the aura-registry test fixture shape).
+    fn minimal_report() -> RunReport {
+        RunReport {
+            manifest: RunManifest {
+                commit: "c".to_string(),
+                params: vec![("p".to_string(), Scalar::f64(1.0))],
+                defaults: vec![],
+                window: (Timestamp(1), Timestamp(2)),
+                seed: 0,
+                broker: "b".to_string(),
+                selection: None,
+                instrument: None,
+                topology_hash: None,
+                project: None,
+            },
+            metrics: RunMetrics { total_pips: 1.0, max_drawdown: 0.5, bias_sign_flips: 0, r: None },
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// One id vocabulary across enumeration and reproduction (C18, #298): the
+    /// family-identity string a consumer lifts off the registry's own member
+    /// enumeration (`FamilyRunRecord.family`) resolves through the reproduce
+    /// lookup when it is unambiguous (a single stored run for the name), and
+    /// reaches the same family the canonical derived handle
+    /// (`"{family}-{run}"`, C18) names. Today the lookup exact-matches the
+    /// derived handle only, so the natural list-then-reproduce library
+    /// workflow dead-ends on `no such family`.
+    ///
+    /// Deliberately NOT pinned here: the ambiguous case (a name with more
+    /// than one stored run) and name/handle collision precedence — those
+    /// semantics are the fix's to settle (refuse-don't-guess).
+    #[test]
+    fn load_family_accepts_the_enumerated_family_identity() {
+        let reg = temp_registry("enumerated-id");
+        reg.append_family("f", FamilyKind::Sweep, &[minimal_report()]).expect("append family");
+
+        let members = reg.load_family_members().expect("enumerate members");
+        let enumerated = members[0].family.clone();
+        let canonical = members[0].family_id();
+
+        let family = load_family(&reg, &enumerated).unwrap_or_else(|e| {
+            panic!("the enumerated family identity '{enumerated}' must resolve: {}", e.message)
+        });
+        assert_eq!(family.id, canonical);
+    }
+}