diff --git a/VERSION.md b/VERSION.md
index e9acf7d..9fa2f32 100644
--- a/VERSION.md
+++ b/VERSION.md
@@ -1,4 +1,64 @@
-# Version actuelle : 0.3.7
+# Version actuelle : 0.3.8
+
+## [0.3.8] - 2026-04-16
+**Type:** Patch — Bug #1 (A3 flip+ensure inconsistency) + Bug #10 (requiredShared contract test)
+
+### Corrigé — Bug #1 (CRITIQUE)
+- `AccountSwitcher.executeSwitch` ne continue plus silencieusement quand
+  `symlinks.EnsureForAccount` échoue après le flip : il **roll-back** le lien
+  `~/.claude` vers le home du compte précédent et **n'appelle pas**
+  `SetActiveAccount`. Évite l'état incohérent où le daemon déclare le compte
+  cible actif alors que ses shared symlinks sont divergents → transcripts
+  dupliqués silencieusement, resume cassé.
+- Si le rollback réussit : swap annulé, état filesystem = état pré-swap,
+  erreur explicite retournée par `executeSwitchE`.
+- Si ensure ET rollback échouent : `partialSwap` atomique sticky set,
+  `ErrPartialSwap` retourné, tout futur swap est refusé tant que le
+  daemon n'est pas redémarré par l'opérateur.
+- Nouvelle méthode publique `AccountSwitcher.IsPartialSwap() bool` pour
+  que health-checks et watchdog exposent l'état dégradé.
+
+### Ajouté — Tests Bug #1
+- `TestFlipEnsureFailureTriggersRollback` : plant un lien divergent sur
+  le home cible → ensure échoue → rollback réussit → `ActiveAccount` reste
+  compte1 → `~/.claude` pointe sur previousHome → `IsPartialSwap` = false.
+- `TestFlipEnsureAndRollbackFailure` : force les deux flips à échouer
+  (homeDir = fichier régulier) → `ErrPartialSwap` retourné, flag sticky
+  set, swap suivant refusé.
+
+### Ajouté — Bug #10
+- `TestRequiredSharedIsCoherent` (`internal/symlinks/shared_test.go`) :
+  valide le contrat de la constante package-level `RequiredShared` jamais
+  exercée auparavant (tous les autres tests utilisent un override scoped
+  en `t.TempDir()`). Vérifie sans toucher au filesystem :
+  - exactement 3 entrées (`session-env`, `file-history`, `projects`)
+  - targets absolus
+  - `filepath.Dir(target)` identique pour les 3 entrées (invariant
+    "3 liens sous un même shared root" sur lequel repose `EnsureForAccount`).
+
+### Rationale
+- Continuer après un ensure échoué revient à valider que le compte cible
+  est "sain" alors que les shared symlinks sont absents ou divergents.
+  Conséquence en prod : premier `claude --resume` écrit dans
+  `~/.claude/projects/` (privé) → transcripts dupliqués, undo
+  désynchronisé, failover complètement cassé sans log d'alerte.
+- Le rollback garantit qu'un compte cible mal configuré ne peut PAS
+  dégrader le state du daemon : on retourne à l'état pré-swap et on
+  signale l'erreur à l'appelant.
+- `ErrPartialSwap` + `IsPartialSwap()` documente un état où l'intervention
+  humaine est obligatoire — préférable à un retry automatique qui
+  empirerait la divergence.
+
+### Tests
+- ✅ `go test ./...` : tous les packages PASS
+- ✅ `go test -race ./...` : PASS, aucun data race
+- ✅ `go vet ./...` : clean
+- ✅ `go build ./...` : clean
+
+### Fichiers modifiés
+- `internal/switcher/account_switcher.go` (+rollback + IsPartialSwap + ErrPartialSwap)
+- `internal/switcher/account_switcher_test.go` (2 nouveaux tests, 1 test obsolète remplacé)
+- `internal/symlinks/shared_test.go` (+TestRequiredSharedIsCoherent)
 
 ## [0.3.7] - 2026-04-16
 **Type:** Patch — Phase 1 / Chantier A3 : wire EnsureForAccount post-flip
diff --git a/internal/switcher/account_switcher.go b/internal/switcher/account_switcher.go
index 9e854b1..3778403 100644
--- a/internal/switcher/account_switcher.go
+++ b/internal/switcher/account_switcher.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ package switcher
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"log"
 	"os"
@@ -11,6 +12,7 @@ import (
 	"regexp"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
+	"sync/atomic"
 	"time"
 
 	"forge.secuaas.ovh/olivier/claude-failover/internal/config"
@@ -21,6 +23,16 @@ import (
 	"forge.secuaas.ovh/olivier/claude-failover/internal/tmux"
 )
 
+// ErrPartialSwap is returned (and wrapped) when the switcher flipped
+// ~/.claude to the target home, EnsureForAccount failed on the target,
+// and the rollback flip back to the previous home ALSO failed. The daemon
+// is in a documented degraded state: the active-account setter was NOT
+// called, but the filesystem symlink may point at an account whose shared
+// state is inconsistent. Operator intervention is required. Callers can
+// interrogate AccountSwitcher.IsPartialSwap() to expose the flag to
+// health-checks / watchdogs.
+var ErrPartialSwap = errors.New("switcher: partial swap — flip succeeded but ensure + rollback both failed")
+
 // SwitchState represents the current phase of a failover operation.
 type SwitchState string
 
@@ -58,6 +70,14 @@ type AccountSwitcher struct {
 	// suite never touches the operator's real /home/ubuntu/.claude-*
 	// shared directories. When nil, symlinks.RequiredShared is used.
 	sharedSymlinks []symlinks.SharedSymlink
+	// partialSwap is set to 1 when a flip+ensure+rollback sequence left the
+	// daemon in an inconsistent state (symlink possibly flipped, but active
+	// account NOT updated, and rollback flip ALSO failed). Health-checks /
+	// watchdogs read this flag via IsPartialSwap(). It is sticky: once set,
+	// it stays set until the operator restarts the daemon after fixing the
+	// filesystem state. We use atomic access so watchdog goroutines can read
+	// it without blocking the switcher.
+	partialSwap atomic.Bool
 }
 
 // New creates an AccountSwitcher.
@@ -94,8 +114,30 @@ func (a *AccountSwitcher) Run(ctx context.Context) {
 
 // executeSwitch performs the full failover sequence.
 func (a *AccountSwitcher) executeSwitch(req quota.SwitchRequest) {
+	if err := a.executeSwitchE(req); err != nil {
+		// executeSwitchE already logs the detail; we swallow the error here
+		// because the public Run loop has no return channel. The partialSwap
+		// flag (if set) remains visible via IsPartialSwap().
+		a.logger.Printf("[switcher] SWAP aborted: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// executeSwitchE runs the swap and returns an error describing any abort or
+// partial-swap condition. Split out from executeSwitch so tests can assert
+// on the error value without routing through a channel.
+func (a *AccountSwitcher) executeSwitchE(req quota.SwitchRequest) error {
 	a.logger.Printf("[switcher] SWAP initiated from=%q reset=%q", req.From, req.ResetTime)
 
+	// Refuse to proceed if a previous swap left the daemon in an
+	// inconsistent state. The operator must intervene (fix the filesystem,
+	// restart the daemon) before any further failover can be attempted —
+	// otherwise we'd stack symlink flips on top of a broken state.
+	if a.partialSwap.Load() {
+		err := fmt.Errorf("refusing swap: daemon is in partial-swap degraded state (operator intervention required)")
+		a.logger.Printf("[switcher] %v", err)
+		return err
+	}
+
 	// 1. SAVING — capture resume UUIDs from all working sessions plus
 	// every dedicated session unconditionally (dedicated sessions are
 	// user-driven and may not be tracked as "working" in state, but their
@@ -110,21 +152,51 @@ func (a *AccountSwitcher) executeSwitch(req quota.SwitchRequest) {
 	if target == nil {
 		a.logger.Printf("[switcher] no alternate account found for %q — aborting swap", req.From)
 		a.currentState = StateNormal
-		return
+		return nil
 	}
+	previous := a.findAccountByName(req.From)
 
 	if err := a.flipSymlink(target.Home); err != nil {
 		a.logger.Printf("[switcher] flipSymlink error: %v", err)
 	}
-	// Best-effort: make sure the target account home exposes the three
-	// shared-state symlinks (session-env, file-history, projects). The main
-	// ~/.claude flip is already done, so an error here must NOT abort the
-	// swap — we just log it so the operator can investigate. Without this
-	// call, a fresh target account with no shared links would silently
-	// start writing into private /projects/session-env/file-history dirs
-	// and diverge from the primary account's transcripts.
+	// Ensure the target account home exposes the three shared-state
+	// symlinks (session-env, file-history, projects). If this fails we
+	// MUST NOT proceed with SetActiveAccount — the daemon would otherwise
+	// declare the target "active" while its shared state is divergent,
+	// silently writing transcripts into private /projects directories and
+	// breaking `claude --resume` across sessions. Instead we attempt to
+	// roll back the ~/.claude flip to the previous account. If the
+	// rollback also fails, the daemon is in a documented degraded state
+	// (ErrPartialSwap) and the operator must intervene.
 	if err := symlinks.EnsureForAccount(target.Home, a.requiredShared()); err != nil {
-		a.logger.Printf("[switcher] WARN ensure shared symlinks for %q: %v", target.Home, err)
+		a.logger.Printf("[switcher] ensure shared symlinks for %q failed: %v — attempting rollback", target.Home, err)
+		if previous == nil || previous.Home == "" {
+			// No known previous home to roll back to — set the degraded
+			// flag and bail out. This is equivalent to a rollback failure
+			// because the filesystem is pointed at a broken target.
+			a.partialSwap.Store(true)
+			a.currentState = StateNormal
+			return fmt.Errorf("%w: ensure failed (%v) and no previous account home is known for rollback", ErrPartialSwap, err)
+		}
+		if rbErr := a.flipSymlink(previous.Home); rbErr != nil {
+			// Both the ensure AND the rollback failed. The daemon is now
+			// in a documented inconsistent state: ~/.claude may point at
+			// target whose shared-state is divergent, but SetActiveAccount
+			// has NOT been called so state.ActiveAccount is still the
+			// previous account. No further failover can be attempted
+			// until the operator intervenes.
+			a.partialSwap.Store(true)
+			a.logger.Printf("[switcher] CRITICAL partial swap: ensure=%v rollback=%v — daemon in degraded state, operator intervention required", err, rbErr)
+			a.currentState = StateNormal
+			return fmt.Errorf("%w: ensure=%v rollback=%v", ErrPartialSwap, err, rbErr)
+		}
+		// Rollback succeeded — symlink is back on the previous account,
+		// SetActiveAccount was NEVER called, state is consistent with
+		// "no swap happened". Return an explicit error so the caller
+		// knows the swap was cancelled.
+		a.logger.Printf("[switcher] rollback successful: ~/.claude → %s (swap cancelled)", previous.Home)
+		a.currentState = StateNormal
+		return fmt.Errorf("swap cancelled: ensure shared symlinks failed on target %q: %w", target.Home, err)
 	}
 	a.killAllPoolSessions()
 	a.recreatePoolSessions()
@@ -151,6 +223,31 @@ func (a *AccountSwitcher) executeSwitch(req quota.SwitchRequest) {
 	}
 
 	a.currentState = StateNormal
+	return nil
+}
+
+// IsPartialSwap reports whether the switcher is in a degraded state after a
+// flip+ensure+rollback sequence all failed. Health-checks and watchdogs use
+// this signal to surface an operator-actionable alert. The flag is sticky
+// for the lifetime of the process: once set, it remains set until the daemon
+// is restarted (after the operator has fixed the filesystem).
+func (a *AccountSwitcher) IsPartialSwap() bool {
+	return a.partialSwap.Load()
+}
+
+// findAccountByName returns the account config entry matching name, or nil.
+// Unlike findTargetAccount (which returns the first NON-matching account),
+// this is used by the rollback path to recover the previous home.
+func (a *AccountSwitcher) findAccountByName(name string) *config.AccountConfig {
+	if name == "" {
+		return nil
+	}
+	for i := range a.config.Accounts {
+		if a.config.Accounts[i].Name == name {
+			return &a.config.Accounts[i]
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
 }
 
 // saveDedicatedUUIDs captures the resume UUID for every configured dedicated
diff --git a/internal/switcher/account_switcher_test.go b/internal/switcher/account_switcher_test.go
index d2f327d..14df33e 100644
--- a/internal/switcher/account_switcher_test.go
+++ b/internal/switcher/account_switcher_test.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package switcher
 
 import (
+	"errors"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
@@ -302,25 +303,34 @@ func TestFlipReconcilesSharedSymlinksOnTargetHome(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// TestFlipEnsureSymlinksFailureDoesNotAbortSwap verifies A3 best-effort:
-// if EnsureForAccount returns an error (here: a divergent pre-existing link
-// that the symlinks package refuses to auto-correct), the flip and the swap
-// MUST still complete. The shared symlink reconcile is post-flip cleanup,
-// not a gate on the failover itself — aborting here would leave the daemon
-// in an inconsistent state (symlink flipped but active account not updated).
-func TestFlipEnsureSymlinksFailureDoesNotAbortSwap(t *testing.T) {
+// TestFlipEnsureFailureTriggersRollback verifies the fix for the A3 bug
+// (flip+ensure inconsistency): if EnsureForAccount fails on the target home
+// after the ~/.claude flip, the switcher MUST NOT mark the target account
+// active. It must instead roll back the ~/.claude symlink to the previous
+// account's home, leaving the daemon in the pre-swap state so subsequent
+// session work keeps writing to the known-good shared state.
+//
+// Old (buggy) behaviour: ensure error was WARN-only, SetActiveAccount still
+// happened, dedicated sessions were relaunched against a target whose
+// /projects, /session-env, /file-history were missing or divergent →
+// transcripts duplicated silently, resume broke, undo history diverged.
+func TestFlipEnsureFailureTriggersRollback(t *testing.T) {
 	tc := newMockTmux()
 
 	s := state.New("")
 	s.SetActiveAccount("compte1")
 
+	previousHome := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "claude-compte1")
 	targetHome := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "claude-compte2")
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(previousHome, 0700); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("mkdir previous home: %v", err)
+	}
 	if err := os.MkdirAll(targetHome, 0700); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("mkdir target home: %v", err)
 	}
 	// Plant a divergent link at <targetHome>/session-env. The symlinks
 	// package refuses to auto-correct this (data-loss safeguard) and will
-	// return an error — which the switcher must swallow with a WARN log.
+	// return an error, which must now trigger a rollback.
 	bogus := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "somewhere-else")
 	if err := os.MkdirAll(bogus, 0700); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("mkdir bogus: %v", err)
@@ -331,7 +341,7 @@ func TestFlipEnsureSymlinksFailureDoesNotAbortSwap(t *testing.T) {
 
 	cfg := &config.Config{
 		Accounts: []config.AccountConfig{
-			{Name: "compte1", Home: filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "claude-compte1")},
+			{Name: "compte1", Home: previousHome},
 			{Name: "compte2", Home: targetHome},
 		},
 		Pool: config.PoolConfig{
@@ -340,13 +350,108 @@ func TestFlipEnsureSymlinksFailureDoesNotAbortSwap(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	a := New(tc, s, cfg, make(chan quota.SwitchRequest), nil)
-	a.homeDir = t.TempDir()
+	homeDir := t.TempDir()
+	a.homeDir = homeDir
 	a.sharedSymlinks = tmpShared(t.TempDir())
 
-	a.executeSwitch(quota.SwitchRequest{From: "compte1"})
+	err := a.executeSwitchE(quota.SwitchRequest{From: "compte1"})
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("executeSwitchE: expected cancellation error, got nil")
+	}
+	// The public symmetric swap-cancelled error must mention ensure and
+	// wrap the underlying symlinks package message. ErrPartialSwap must
+	// NOT be set (rollback succeeded → recoverable condition).
+	if errors.Is(err, ErrPartialSwap) {
+		t.Errorf("did not expect ErrPartialSwap; rollback succeeded; got %v", err)
+	}
+	if a.IsPartialSwap() {
+		t.Errorf("IsPartialSwap should be false when rollback succeeds")
+	}
 
-	// The swap must have completed despite the divergent-link error.
-	if got := s.ActiveAccount(); got != "compte2" {
-		t.Errorf("swap should complete even when ensure fails; active=%q want compte2", got)
+	// Active account must remain the previous one — SetActiveAccount must
+	// NOT have been called.
+	if got := s.ActiveAccount(); got != "compte1" {
+		t.Errorf("active account should stay compte1 after rollback; got %q", got)
+	}
+
+	// ~/.claude must now point at the previous home (rollback target).
+	link, rlErr := os.Readlink(filepath.Join(homeDir, ".claude"))
+	if rlErr != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("readlink ~/.claude: %v", rlErr)
+	}
+	if link != previousHome {
+		t.Errorf("~/.claude should point at previous home %q after rollback; got %q", previousHome, link)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestFlipEnsureAndRollbackFailure verifies that when BOTH EnsureForAccount
+// AND the rollback flip fail, the switcher sets the sticky partial-swap
+// flag and returns ErrPartialSwap. The daemon is then in a documented
+// degraded state where any further swap is refused until the operator
+// restarts it.
+func TestFlipEnsureAndRollbackFailure(t *testing.T) {
+	tc := newMockTmux()
+
+	s := state.New("")
+	s.SetActiveAccount("compte1")
+
+	previousHome := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "claude-compte1")
+	targetHome := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "claude-compte2")
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(previousHome, 0700); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("mkdir previous home: %v", err)
+	}
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(targetHome, 0700); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("mkdir target home: %v", err)
+	}
+	// Plant the divergent link that will cause EnsureForAccount to fail.
+	bogus := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "somewhere-else")
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(bogus, 0700); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("mkdir bogus: %v", err)
+	}
+	if err := os.Symlink(bogus, filepath.Join(targetHome, "session-env")); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("plant divergent link: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	cfg := &config.Config{
+		Accounts: []config.AccountConfig{
+			{Name: "compte1", Home: previousHome},
+			{Name: "compte2", Home: targetHome},
+		},
+		Pool: config.PoolConfig{
+			Autonomous: config.AutonomousConfig{Prefix: "ccl-auto-", Min: 0, Max: 0},
+		},
+	}
+
+	a := New(tc, s, cfg, make(chan quota.SwitchRequest), nil)
+
+	// Force the rollback flip to fail: point homeDir at a file that cannot
+	// host a .claude symlink. We use a regular file; the flipSymlink
+	// implementation does os.Remove() then os.Symlink() under homeDir,
+	// which fails when homeDir is itself a file (ENOTDIR).
+	badHomeFile := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "not-a-dir")
+	if err := os.WriteFile(badHomeFile, []byte("block"), 0600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("write bad home: %v", err)
+	}
+	a.homeDir = badHomeFile
+	a.sharedSymlinks = tmpShared(t.TempDir())
+
+	err := a.executeSwitchE(quota.SwitchRequest{From: "compte1"})
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("expected ErrPartialSwap, got nil")
+	}
+	if !errors.Is(err, ErrPartialSwap) {
+		t.Errorf("expected ErrPartialSwap, got %v", err)
+	}
+	if !a.IsPartialSwap() {
+		t.Errorf("IsPartialSwap should be true when both ensure AND rollback fail")
+	}
+	// SetActiveAccount must still not have been called.
+	if got := s.ActiveAccount(); got != "compte1" {
+		t.Errorf("active account must stay compte1 in partial-swap; got %q", got)
+	}
+
+	// A subsequent swap attempt must be refused while the flag is set.
+	if err2 := a.executeSwitchE(quota.SwitchRequest{From: "compte1"}); err2 == nil {
+		t.Errorf("expected subsequent swap to be refused in degraded state")
 	}
 }
diff --git a/internal/symlinks/shared_test.go b/internal/symlinks/shared_test.go
index 64625d4..e472678 100644
--- a/internal/symlinks/shared_test.go
+++ b/internal/symlinks/shared_test.go
@@ -204,3 +204,73 @@ func TestRequiredShared_defaultsAreReasonable(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+// TestRequiredSharedIsCoherent validates the contract of the package-level
+// RequiredShared constant that the switcher and lifecycle manager consume
+// in production. The rest of the suite exercises EnsureForAccount /
+// ValidateAll with tmpdir-scoped override lists, so the actual prod
+// constant (pointing under /home/ubuntu/.claude-*-shared) is never touched
+// by those tests — a regression that shrinks or renames RequiredShared
+// would pass every other test but silently break failover on real VMs
+// (missing a link → writes to private state → transcripts duplicated).
+//
+// The test is filesystem-free: it only asserts the shape of the constant.
+//
+//   1. Exactly three entries, one per Name required by the A-failover design.
+//   2. Every Target is absolute.
+//   3. All three Targets share the same parent directory — there is no
+//      mode of operation where one shared dir lives elsewhere than the
+//      others. `filepath.Dir(target)` must be identical across entries.
+//
+// This encodes the "3 links under one shared root" invariant that
+// EnsureForAccount relies on. Any future change to RequiredShared that
+// breaks this invariant should force the author to update the switcher
+// contract explicitly.
+func TestRequiredSharedIsCoherent(t *testing.T) {
+	expectedNames := map[string]bool{
+		"session-env":  false,
+		"file-history": false,
+		"projects":     false,
+	}
+	if len(RequiredShared) != len(expectedNames) {
+		t.Fatalf("RequiredShared must contain exactly %d entries (session-env, file-history, projects); got %d: %+v",
+			len(expectedNames), len(RequiredShared), RequiredShared)
+	}
+
+	var sharedParent string
+	for i, sl := range RequiredShared {
+		if _, ok := expectedNames[sl.Name]; !ok {
+			t.Errorf("RequiredShared[%d]: unexpected Name %q (allowed: session-env / file-history / projects)", i, sl.Name)
+			continue
+		}
+		if expectedNames[sl.Name] {
+			t.Errorf("RequiredShared[%d]: duplicate Name %q", i, sl.Name)
+		}
+		expectedNames[sl.Name] = true
+
+		if sl.Target == "" {
+			t.Errorf("RequiredShared[%d] (%q): empty Target", i, sl.Name)
+			continue
+		}
+		if !filepath.IsAbs(sl.Target) {
+			t.Errorf("RequiredShared[%d] (%q): Target %q must be absolute", i, sl.Name, sl.Target)
+			continue
+		}
+
+		parent := filepath.Dir(sl.Target)
+		if i == 0 {
+			sharedParent = parent
+			continue
+		}
+		if parent != sharedParent {
+			t.Errorf("RequiredShared[%d] (%q): parent dir %q diverges from %q — all shared targets must live under the same root",
+				i, sl.Name, parent, sharedParent)
+		}
+	}
+
+	for name, seen := range expectedNames {
+		if !seen {
+			t.Errorf("RequiredShared is missing the required %q entry", name)
+		}
+	}
+}