diff --git a/extensions/discord/src/status-issues.test.ts b/extensions/discord/src/status-issues.test.ts
index 4b514afbe07..6b4223c9a8b 100644
--- a/extensions/discord/src/status-issues.test.ts
+++ b/extensions/discord/src/status-issues.test.ts
@@ -20,20 +20,23 @@ describe("collectDiscordStatusIssues", () => {
       } as ChannelAccountSnapshot,
     ]);
 
-    expect(issues).toEqual(
-      expect.arrayContaining([
-        expect.objectContaining({
-          channel: "discord",
-          accountId: "ops",
-          kind: "intent",
-        }),
-        expect.objectContaining({
-          channel: "discord",
-          accountId: "ops",
-          kind: "config",
-        }),
-      ]),
-    );
+    expect(issues).toEqual([
+      {
+        channel: "discord",
+        accountId: "ops",
+        kind: "intent",
+        message: "Message Content Intent is disabled. Bot may not see normal channel messages.",
+        fix: "Enable Message Content Intent in Discord Dev Portal → Bot → Privileged Gateway Intents, or require mention-only operation.",
+      },
+      {
+        channel: "discord",
+        accountId: "ops",
+        kind: "config",
+        message:
+          "Some configured guild channels are not numeric IDs (unresolvedChannels=2). Permission audit can only check numeric channel IDs.",
+        fix: "Use numeric channel IDs as keys in channels.discord.guilds.*.channels (then rerun channels status --probe).",
+      },
+    ]);
   });
 
   it("reports channel permission failures with match metadata", () => {
@@ -57,15 +60,16 @@ describe("collectDiscordStatusIssues", () => {
       } as ChannelAccountSnapshot,
     ]);
 
-    expect(issues).toHaveLength(1);
-    expect(issues[0]).toMatchObject({
-      channel: "discord",
-      accountId: "ops",
-      kind: "permissions",
-    });
-    expect(issues[0]?.message).toContain("Channel 123 permission check failed");
-    expect(issues[0]?.message).toContain("alerts");
-    expect(issues[0]?.message).toContain("guilds.ops.channels");
+    expect(issues).toEqual([
+      {
+        channel: "discord",
+        accountId: "ops",
+        kind: "permissions",
+        message:
+          "Channel 123 permission check failed. missing ViewChannel, SendMessages: 403 (matchKey=alerts matchSource=guilds.ops.channels)",
+        fix: "Ensure the bot role can view + send in this channel (and that channel overrides don't deny it).",
+      },
+    ]);
   });
 
   it("reports degraded runtime transport state", () => {
@@ -81,12 +85,13 @@ describe("collectDiscordStatusIssues", () => {
     ]);
 
     expect(issues).toEqual([
-      expect.objectContaining({
+      {
         channel: "discord",
         accountId: "ops",
         kind: "runtime",
-        message: expect.stringContaining("stale-socket"),
-      }),
+        message: "Discord gateway transport is degraded (stale-socket; account is running).",
+        fix: "Check gateway event-loop health and Discord connectivity, then restart the Discord channel or gateway if the transport does not recover.",
+      },
     ]);
   });
 });