diff --git a/tests/integration/Durable/Crash/CrashBenchActivities.php b/tests/integration/Durable/Crash/CrashBenchActivities.php
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+<?php
+
+declare(strict_types=1);
+
+namespace integration\Durable\Crash;
+
+use Gplanchat\Durable\Attribute\AsActivityMethod;
+
+/**
+ * The two activities the crash bench schedules, and nothing else.
+ *
+ * Deliberately trivial. The bench measures whether an execution survives the death of the process
+ * that started it — not whether an activity computes anything interesting. Anything more here would
+ * be a second variable in a measurement that has never been taken once.
+ */
+interface CrashBenchActivities
+{
+    /**
+     * Runs before the crash, and is the one that must NOT run again after it.
+     */
+    #[AsActivityMethod('bench.first')]
+    public function first(string $tag): string;
+
+    /**
+     * Runs after the crash — it is the activity whose start kills the first process.
+     */
+    #[AsActivityMethod('bench.second')]
+    public function second(string $tag): string;
+}
diff --git a/tests/integration/Durable/Crash/InterprocessCrashBenchTest.php b/tests/integration/Durable/Crash/InterprocessCrashBenchTest.php
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+<?php
+
+declare(strict_types=1);
+
+namespace integration\Durable\Crash;
+
+use PHPUnit\Framework\Attributes\Test;
+use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
+
+/**
+ * The measurement the product's central promise has never had: an execution survives the death of
+ * the process that started it.
+ *
+ * Every other bench in this repository runs in one process. The in-memory runner replays for real —
+ * that part is honest — but a single process cannot show that nothing important was living in its
+ * memory rather than in the journal. A leaked container, a captured closure, a static counter: all
+ * of them survive a replay and none of them survives a `SIGKILL`, and until now nothing here has
+ * ever asked them to.
+ *
+ * This is the **bare** bench, without an agent. It answers one question and refuses the next one:
+ * if it is green, a failure of the same shape with the agent maquette lives in the maquette; if it
+ * is red, it lives in the core, and everything built on top of "the execution survives" is built on
+ * a guess.
+ *
+ * @internal
+ */
+final class InterprocessCrashBenchTest extends TestCase
+{
+    private string $directory;
+
+    protected function setUp(): void
+    {
+        if (!\function_exists('posix_kill') || !\extension_loaded('pdo_sqlite')) {
+            self::markTestSkipped('the bench needs posix and pdo_sqlite: it kills a process and shares a journal file');
+        }
+
+        $this->directory = sys_get_temp_dir() . '/durable-crash-bench-' . bin2hex(random_bytes(6));
+        mkdir($this->directory, 0o700, true);
+    }
+
+    protected function tearDown(): void
+    {
+        foreach (glob($this->directory . '/*') ?: [] as $file) {
+            unlink($file);
+        }
+        if (is_dir($this->directory)) {
+            rmdir($this->directory);
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[Test]
+    public function anExecutionKilledBetweenTwoActivitiesResumesInAnotherProcessWithoutRepayingTheFirst(): void
+    {
+        $journal = $this->directory . '/journal.sqlite';
+        $log = $this->directory . '/activities.log';
+        $executionId = '01900000-0000-7000-8000-0000000000c1';
+
+        $crashed = $this->runSlice($journal, $executionId, 'start', $log, kill: true);
+
+        // A process the kernel killed outright never gets to report an exit code of its own; what
+        // matters is only that it is not zero, because zero would mean it finished the workflow and
+        // there is nothing left to resume.
+        self::assertNotSame(0, $crashed['code'], 'the first process must die, not finish');
+        self::assertSame(
+            ['bench.first'],
+            $this->activitiesRun($log),
+            'the first process runs the first activity and dies before scheduling the second',
+        );
+
+        $resumed = $this->runSlice($journal, $executionId, 'resume', $log);
+
+        self::assertSame(0, $resumed['code'], 'the second process must carry the execution to its end: ' . $resumed['stderr']);
+        self::assertSame(
+            ['first' => 'first:a', 'second' => 'second:b'],
+            json_decode(trim($resumed['stdout']), true, 512, JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR),
+            'the resumed execution returns what an uninterrupted one would have returned',
+        );
+
+        // The whole bench is this one line. `bench.first` appears once and only once: it was run by
+        // a process that no longer exists, and the process that finished the job was served its
+        // result out of the journal instead of paying for it a second time. Anything the first
+        // process had kept in memory rather than in the journal is gone, and the execution did not
+        // need it.
+        self::assertSame(
+            ['bench.first', 'bench.second'],
+            $this->activitiesRun($log),
+            'the first activity is served from the journal, never re-executed',
+        );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @return list<string>
+     */
+    private function activitiesRun(string $log): array
+    {
+        return array_values(array_filter(explode("\n", (string) @file_get_contents($log))));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @return array{code: int, stdout: string, stderr: string}
+     */
+    private function runSlice(string $journal, string $executionId, string $phase, string $log, bool $kill = false): array
+    {
+        $environment = ['BENCH_LOG' => $log] + ($kill ? ['BENCH_KILL' => '1'] : []);
+
+        $process = proc_open(
+            [PHP_BINARY, __DIR__ . '/bench_slice.php', $journal, $executionId, $phase],
+            [1 => ['pipe', 'w'], 2 => ['pipe', 'w']],
+            $pipes,
+            null,
+            $environment + ['PATH' => getenv('PATH') ?: '/usr/bin:/bin'],
+        );
+
+        self::assertIsResource($process, 'the bench must be able to spawn a second PHP process');
+
+        $stdout = (string) stream_get_contents($pipes[1]);
+        $stderr = (string) stream_get_contents($pipes[2]);
+        fclose($pipes[1]);
+        fclose($pipes[2]);
+
+        return ['code' => proc_close($process), 'stdout' => $stdout, 'stderr' => $stderr];
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/integration/Durable/Crash/bench_slice.php b/tests/integration/Durable/Crash/bench_slice.php
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+<?php
+
+declare(strict_types=1);
+
+/**
+ * One slice of the interprocess crash bench: a whole PHP process that runs a workflow against a
+ * journal on disk, and possibly dies in the middle of it.
+ *
+ * It is a script and not a test method because that is the entire point. A `fork()` inside PHPUnit
+ * shares the parent's memory image, so anything the workflow leaks into a static, a container or a
+ * closure would still be there — which is exactly the class of leak this bench is looking for. A
+ * second `exec()`ed process shares nothing but the SQLite file, and the file is the journal.
+ *
+ * Usage:
+ *   php bench_slice.php <journal.sqlite> <executionId> start|resume
+ *
+ * Environment:
+ *   BENCH_LOG   file appended to, one line per activity actually executed
+ *   BENCH_KILL  set to 1 to SIGKILL the process between the two activities (optional)
+ *
+ * Exit codes: 0 finished, 3 still suspended, 4 usage. A SIGKILL leaves no exit code at all, which
+ * is what the caller asserts on.
+ *
+ * **The kill is between the activities, not inside one**, and that is a deliberate narrowing. A
+ * worker that dies *while* an activity is in flight leaves a scheduled slot with no outcome, and
+ * what should happen then is a redelivery — a property of the activity transport and its retry
+ * policy, neither of which this bare setup has. Measured on the way here: with no transport worker
+ * and `maxActivityRetries: 0`, resuming such an execution waits forever, which is the correct
+ * behaviour for a runtime that has nobody to ask. It is a real question, it is not *this* question,
+ * and answering both at once would leave neither answered.
+ */
+
+use Doctrine\DBAL\DriverManager;
+use Gplanchat\Bridge\Dbal\Schema\DurableSchema;
+use Gplanchat\Bridge\Dbal\Store\DbalEventStore;
+use Gplanchat\Durable\Exception\WorkflowSuspendedException;
+use Gplanchat\Durable\ExecutionEngine;
+use Gplanchat\Durable\ExecutionRuntime;
+use Gplanchat\Durable\RegistryActivityExecutor;
+use Gplanchat\Durable\Transport\InMemoryActivityTransport;
+use Gplanchat\Durable\WorkflowEnvironment;
+use integration\Durable\Crash\CrashBenchActivities;
+
+require __DIR__ . '/../../../../vendor/autoload.php';
+
+[$journalPath, $executionId, $phase] = [$argv[1] ?? null, $argv[2] ?? null, $argv[3] ?? null];
+
+if (null === $journalPath || null === $executionId || !\in_array($phase, ['start', 'resume'], true)) {
+    fwrite(STDERR, "usage: bench_slice.php <journal.sqlite> <executionId> start|resume\n");
+    exit(4);
+}
+
+$log = getenv('BENCH_LOG') ?: null;
+$killBetween = '1' === getenv('BENCH_KILL');
+
+/**
+ * What an activity does when it really runs — and the whole assertion of this bench is that the
+ * second process never writes the first activity's line.
+ */
+$record = static function (string $name) use ($log): void {
+    if (null !== $log) {
+        file_put_contents($log, $name . "\n", FILE_APPEND | LOCK_EX);
+    }
+};
+
+$connection = DriverManager::getConnection(['driver' => 'pdo_sqlite', 'path' => $journalPath]);
+$eventStore = new DbalEventStore($connection, new DurableSchema($connection));
+
+$executor = new RegistryActivityExecutor();
+$executor->register('bench.first', static function (array $payload) use ($record): string {
+    $record('bench.first');
+
+    return 'first:' . ($payload['tag'] ?? '?');
+});
+$executor->register('bench.second', static function (array $payload) use ($record): string {
+    $record('bench.second');
+
+    return 'second:' . ($payload['tag'] ?? '?');
+});
+
+// The handler is defined here, in the file both processes run, because replay demands that the two
+// processes execute the same workflow code. A closure that differed between them would fail the
+// divergence guard rather than the bench — a different measurement wearing this one's name.
+//
+// The kill sits between the two awaits, and it is not a workflow decision: it schedules nothing,
+// journals nothing and returns nothing. It is `kill -9` arriving at the one instant where the
+// journal holds the first activity's outcome and knows nothing yet of the second. Reaching in from
+// outside would have to race that instant; reaching in from here hits it exactly.
+$handler = static function (WorkflowEnvironment $env) use ($killBetween): array {
+    $first = $env->await($env->activityStub(CrashBenchActivities::class)->first('a'));
+
+    if ($killBetween) {
+        // SIGKILL and not exit(): no destructors, no shutdown functions, no chance for anything to
+        // flush a buffer that a real crash would have taken with it. A worker that is OOM-killed or
+        // whose container is stopped gets exactly this much warning.
+        posix_kill(posix_getpid(), SIGKILL);
+    }
+
+    $second = $env->await($env->activityStub(CrashBenchActivities::class)->second('b'));
+
+    return ['first' => $first, 'second' => $second];
+};
+
+$runtime = new ExecutionRuntime($eventStore, new InMemoryActivityTransport(), $executor);
+$engine = new ExecutionEngine($eventStore, $runtime);
+
+try {
+    $result = 'start' === $phase
+        ? $engine->start($executionId, $handler, 'CrashBench')
+        : $engine->resume($executionId, $handler, 'CrashBench');
+} catch (WorkflowSuspendedException) {
+    exit(3);
+}
+
+echo json_encode($result, JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR), "\n";
+exit(0);