The test 'normalizes Settings.app compact capture refs without hiding capture content' is meant to prove that the count under settingsCapture/appCapture is passed through unchanged (unlike the count under a capture object, which is normalized to 99999). By setting both the raw input and the expected count to 99999 — the exact normalizer sentinel — the assertion no longer distinguishes preserved values from normalized ones: a regression that started normalizing these counts to 99999 would still pass. Use distinct non-sentinel values (e.g. 144 and 19) for input and expected so the assertion fails if normalization is ever applied to compact-capture counts.

This test early-returns (with no assertion) whenever the working directory is not under /private/tmp/, so it passes vacuously on Linux CI and typical dev machines, providing no real coverage of the alias normalization; assert against an injected/constructed path or use it.skip with a clear condition instead of a silent return.