diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index eebe713..0349c2e 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -236,7 +236,9 @@ in every process.
   the fork, which allocates nothing per spawn.
 - **One `SharedError` per panic.** Each capture is its own instance graph, so two workers failing
   near-simultaneously each leave an error their waiter can still attach by the address its own
-  slot carries.
+  slot carries. A panic slot whose payload does not attach as a `SharedError` still surfaces as a
+  `ParallelTaskException` — one that says the detail is unavailable, never one that presents
+  another object's fields as this task's failure.
 - **Result slots are bump-allocated from a pre-sized table and never given back.** They are a bounded
   supply for the life of the arena, which is what `soak-arena-watermark.php` reports rather than
   assumes.
diff --git a/src/Parallel/SharedArena.php b/src/Parallel/SharedArena.php
index 5042ab7..e23678e 100644
--- a/src/Parallel/SharedArena.php
+++ b/src/Parallel/SharedArena.php
@@ -407,10 +407,9 @@ public function recheck(): void
     /**
      * Clone an object graph into the arena and hand back the shared instance.
      *
-     * Storage is keyed by class, which is the substrate's registry contract: persisting a second
-     * instance of the same class is an **upsert** that supersedes the first. A design that needs
-     * several live graphs of one class gives them distinct classes, or puts them in a
-     * `SharedArray`.
+     * Storage is keyed per instance: the substrate registers the graph under a name minted from
+     * its own root address, so persisting a second instance of the same class is a second entry —
+     * never an upsert — and any number of graphs of one class are live at once.
      *
      * The graph is persisted `mutable: true`, so a worker's writes are visible to the family
      * instead of being rolled back at request end. A bare `$object->prop = …` on the result is
diff --git a/src/Parallel/SlotTable.php b/src/Parallel/SlotTable.php
index 010119d..cb1352f 100644
--- a/src/Parallel/SlotTable.php
+++ b/src/Parallel/SlotTable.php
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 namespace Lisachenko\NativePhpCoroutines\Parallel;
 
 use Lisachenko\NativePhpCoroutines\Exception\ParallelTaskException;
-use Lisachenko\NativePhpCoroutines\Exception\WorkerCrashedException;
 use Lisachenko\NativePhpCoroutines\Parallel\Protocol\TaggedRecord;
 use Lisachenko\NativePhpCoroutines\SchedulerInterface;
 use Lisachenko\SharedData\Ipc\SharedError;
@@ -219,6 +218,12 @@ public function failPendingOf(int $workerId, \Throwable $error): void
      * code write a per-process `properties` pointer into the shared struct, and the next sibling to
      * read that object segfaults. A panic handler is exactly the code most likely to reach for a
      * dump, which is why it is spelled out here rather than assumed.
+     *
+     * A panic slot whose payload does not attach as a {@see SharedError} still surfaces as a
+     * `ParallelTaskException` — the panic itself is certain, only its detail is missing — and the
+     * exception says the detail is unavailable rather than presenting whatever object was found as
+     * this task's failure. The worker is not declared dead over it: it settled the slot, so it is
+     * demonstrably alive.
      */
     private function settle(ResultSlot $slot, SlotResult $result): void
     {
@@ -237,10 +242,12 @@ private function settle(ResultSlot $slot, SlotResult $result): void
         $slot->complete = true;
         $slot->error    = $error instanceof SharedError
             ? new ParallelTaskException($error->className, $error->message, $error->trace, $slot->workerId)
-            : new WorkerCrashedException(
+            : new ParallelTaskException(
+                'Throwable',
+                'its error detail is unavailable — the slot payload did not attach as a shared '
+                . 'error-info object, and no other task\'s detail is presented in its place',
+                '',
                 $slot->workerId,
-                'the task panicked but its shared error-info object could not be attached',
-                [$slot->id],
             );
 
         $this->wake($slot);
diff --git a/tests/Functional/testAPanicWhoseDetailCannotBeAttachedSaysSoExplicitly.phpt b/tests/Functional/testAPanicWhoseDetailCannotBeAttachedSaysSoExplicitly.phpt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8254e5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Functional/testAPanicWhoseDetailCannotBeAttachedSaysSoExplicitly.phpt
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+--TEST--
+A panic slot whose detail does not attach as a SharedError says so, instead of presenting another object as the failure
+--INI--
+ffi.enable=1
+opcache.jit=off
+error_reporting=E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED
+--FILE--
+<?php
+
+declare(strict_types=1);
+
+use Lisachenko\NativePhpCoroutines\Exception\ParallelTaskException;
+use Lisachenko\NativePhpCoroutines\Runtime;
+use Lisachenko\NativePhpCoroutines\TaskRuntime;
+use Lisachenko\NativePhpCoroutines\Tests\Support\SharedCounter;
+
+use function Lisachenko\NativePhpCoroutines\Tests\Support\parallelChildrenLeft;
+use function Lisachenko\NativePhpCoroutines\Tests\Support\parallelDeadline;
+
+include __DIR__ . '/../../vendor/autoload.php';
+include __DIR__ . '/../Support/parallel.php';
+include __DIR__ . '/../Support/shared.php';
+
+// The panic itself is certain — the slot settled as PANIC — but the detail travels separately, as
+// the address of a shared error-info object in the task's own slot. If whatever that address
+// attaches as is NOT a SharedError, the one wrong answer is to read fields off it anyway and
+// present some other object's content as this task's failure. The exception must say the detail
+// is unavailable instead. This rig settles a panic slot by hand with the address of a shared
+// object that is not a SharedError, which is exactly what a waiter would see if a slot's error
+// address ever stopped meaning "this slot's own captured panic".
+$runtime = new Runtime(workers: 1, arenaSize: 32 << 20);
+
+$runtime->run(static function (TaskRuntime $self) use ($runtime): void {
+    parallelDeadline(15.0, 'the detail-less panic reaching its waiter');
+
+    // A deliberate rig: slots are settled by hand here, which is machinery the task surface
+    // intentionally does not carry, so the arena is read off the concrete runtime.
+    $arena = $runtime->arena();
+    if ($arena === null) {
+        throw new LogicException('this runtime has no arena');
+    }
+
+    $decoy = $self->persist(new SharedCounter());
+    $slotId = $arena->slotTable()->allocateSlot();
+    $arena->slotTable()->completePanic($slotId, $arena->addressOf($decoy));
+
+    try {
+        $self->attachResult($slotId)->await();
+
+        echo 'the await returned, which it must not', PHP_EOL;
+    } catch (ParallelTaskException $panic) {
+        echo 'the panic still surfaces as a task panic: yes', PHP_EOL;
+        echo 'it says the detail is unavailable: ',
+            str_contains($panic->getMessage(), 'error detail is unavailable') ? 'yes' : 'no', PHP_EOL;
+        echo 'no fabricated class: ', $panic->originalClass() === 'Throwable' ? 'yes' : 'no', PHP_EOL;
+        echo 'no borrowed trace: ', $panic->originalTrace() === '' ? 'yes' : 'no', PHP_EOL;
+    }
+});
+
+echo 'children left: ', parallelChildrenLeft(), PHP_EOL;
+?>
+--EXPECT--
+the panic still surfaces as a task panic: yes
+it says the detail is unavailable: yes
+no fabricated class: yes
+no borrowed trace: yes
+children left: none
diff --git a/tests/Functional/testEachPanicKeepsItsOwnSharedError.phpt b/tests/Functional/testEachPanicKeepsItsOwnSharedError.phpt
index a8bab69..0ee1932 100644
--- a/tests/Functional/testEachPanicKeepsItsOwnSharedError.phpt
+++ b/tests/Functional/testEachPanicKeepsItsOwnSharedError.phpt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 --TEST--
-Two panicking workers each keep their own error, and each waiter reads its own
+Two panicking workers each keep their own error: class, message and trace all belong to the right task
 --INI--
 ffi.enable=1
 opcache.jit=off
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ declare(strict_types=1);
 use Lisachenko\NativePhpCoroutines\Exception\ParallelTaskException;
 use Lisachenko\NativePhpCoroutines\Runtime;
 use Lisachenko\NativePhpCoroutines\TaskRuntime;
+use Lisachenko\NativePhpCoroutines\Tests\Support\PanicWithDomainErrorTask;
 use Lisachenko\NativePhpCoroutines\Tests\Support\PanicWithMessageTask;
 use Lisachenko\NativePhpCoroutines\Timer;
 
@@ -23,8 +24,10 @@ include __DIR__ . '/../Support/shared.php';
 
 // A captured panic used to be persisted under SharedError's class name, so the second worker's
 // capture superseded the first worker's registry entry — a waiter attaching the first error's
-// address after that found nothing. Each capture is now its own instance graph: two workers
-// failing near-simultaneously each leave an error, and each waiter reads exactly its own.
+// address after that found nothing, or worse, another task's detail. Each capture is now its own
+// instance graph whose address rides in the panicking task's own slot, so each waiter reads
+// exactly its own failure: the two tasks here panic with different classes and messages, and each
+// exception's class, message AND trace must all belong to the task that was awaited.
 $runtime = new Runtime(workers: 2, arenaSize: 32 << 20);
 
 $runtime->run(static function (TaskRuntime $self): void {
@@ -32,17 +35,26 @@ $runtime->run(static function (TaskRuntime $self): void {
         throw new RuntimeException('deadline: the two panics never reached their waiters');
     });
 
-    $one = $self->spawnParallel(new PanicWithMessageTask('the first worker exploded'), 0);
-    $two = $self->spawnParallel(new PanicWithMessageTask('the second worker exploded'), 1);
+    $handles = [
+        'first'  => [$self->spawnParallel(new PanicWithMessageTask('the first worker exploded'), 0),
+            'RuntimeException', 'PanicWithMessageTask', 'PanicWithDomainErrorTask'],
+        'second' => [$self->spawnParallel(new PanicWithDomainErrorTask('the second worker exploded'), 1),
+            'DomainException', 'PanicWithDomainErrorTask', 'PanicWithMessageTask'],
+    ];
 
-    foreach (['first' => $one, 'second' => $two] as $which => $handle) {
+    foreach ($handles as $which => [$handle, $ownClass, $ownFrame, $otherFrame]) {
         try {
             $handle->await();
 
             echo $which, ': the await returned, which it must not', PHP_EOL;
         } catch (ParallelTaskException $panic) {
-            echo $which, ' waiter got its own panic: ',
+            echo $which, ' class is its own: ',
+                $panic->originalClass() === $ownClass ? 'yes' : 'no (' . $panic->originalClass() . ')', PHP_EOL;
+            echo $which, ' message is its own: ',
                 str_contains($panic->getMessage(), "the {$which} worker exploded") ? 'yes' : 'no', PHP_EOL;
+            echo $which, ' trace is its own: ',
+                str_contains($panic->originalTrace(), $ownFrame)
+                && !str_contains($panic->originalTrace(), $otherFrame) ? 'yes' : 'no', PHP_EOL;
         }
     }
 });
@@ -50,6 +62,10 @@ $runtime->run(static function (TaskRuntime $self): void {
 echo 'children left: ', parallelChildrenLeft(), PHP_EOL;
 ?>
 --EXPECT--
-first waiter got its own panic: yes
-second waiter got its own panic: yes
+first class is its own: yes
+first message is its own: yes
+first trace is its own: yes
+second class is its own: yes
+second message is its own: yes
+second trace is its own: yes
 children left: none
diff --git a/tests/Support/shared.php b/tests/Support/shared.php
index 1f893c2..6d623ee 100644
--- a/tests/Support/shared.php
+++ b/tests/Support/shared.php
@@ -195,6 +195,20 @@ public function run(TaskRuntime $runtime): mixed
     }
 }
 
+/**
+ * Panics with a DomainException, so a concurrent panic differs from {@see PanicWithMessageTask}'s
+ * by class and by the task frame in its trace — not only by message.
+ */
+final class PanicWithDomainErrorTask implements Task
+{
+    public function __construct(public readonly string $message) {}
+
+    public function run(TaskRuntime $runtime): mixed
+    {
+        throw new \DomainException($this->message);
+    }
+}
+
 /** Pushes a bounded number of values onto a named shared channel. */
 final class SharedSendTask implements Task
 {