diff --git a/deploy/check-env-parity.py b/deploy/check-env-parity.py
index bb882a2f..b34d910c 100755
--- a/deploy/check-env-parity.py
+++ b/deploy/check-env-parity.py
@@ -111,6 +111,19 @@
     # three overlays join retina-edge identically and any difference is a
     # server silently off the network — which 502s /api/towers, and is exactly
     # what this check exists to catch.
+    # The dark-solver configuration the test droplet is measured under (PR
+    # #306): free-altitude solve, the per-node frame interval the synthetic
+    # fleet's ~1 Hz cadence needs, the stale-track cutoff tuned to its miss
+    # rate, and the dark track-following lane in binding mode after two
+    # solves. Test only, on purpose: the code defaults (sweep / 1.0 / 3 s /
+    # shadow / 3) are what staging and production run until the numbers from
+    # the test droplet say the defaults should move, which is a code change
+    # in backend/core/state.py and config/constants.py, not an overlay one.
+    (
+        "test",
+        r"^services\.server\.environment\.(SOLVER_ALT_MODE|NODE_FRAME_MIN_INTERVAL_S"
+        r"|TRACK_MAX_STALE_S|DARK_FOLLOW_MODE|DARK_FOLLOW_MIN_SOLVES)$",
+    ),
     # Compose records the file list it was assembled from.
     r"^name$",
     r"^services\.[^.]+\.(build|image)\.?.*labels.*$",