diff --git a/docs/changes/unreleased/2092-remote-task-fixtures-macos.md b/docs/changes/unreleased/2092-remote-task-fixtures-macos.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bb15992617
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/changes/unreleased/2092-remote-task-fixtures-macos.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+kind: internal
+title: Remote-task session fixtures pass on macOS temporary folders
+pr: 2092
+surface: [engine]
+invalidates: []
+---
diff --git a/internal/session/task_remote_recovery_test.go b/internal/session/task_remote_recovery_test.go
index 45446926ce..57b3cf5168 100644
--- a/internal/session/task_remote_recovery_test.go
+++ b/internal/session/task_remote_recovery_test.go
@@ -654,12 +654,14 @@ func TestAPrivateTaskRunsElsewhereAndWaitsForLocalReviewAndApply(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Setenv("CODEAF_HOME", t.TempDir())
 	t.Setenv("CODEAF_PROTOTYPE_WORKSPACE_OWNERSHIP", "1")
 	reached := make(chan struct{}, 1)
+	var written string
 	remote := &scriptedTaskEngine{start: func(ctx context.Context, spec RunSpec) RunSummary {
+		written = filepath.Join(spec.Workspace, "private-output.txt")
 		reached <- struct{}{}
 		r := remoteRecordFor(spec)
 		r.Finished, r.Restored = true, true
 		_ = spec.SaveRemote(r, true)
-		if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(spec.Workspace, "private-output.txt"), []byte("the returned private change\n"), 0600); err != nil {
+		if err := os.WriteFile(written, []byte("the returned private change\n"), 0600); err != nil {
 			t.Error(err)
 		}
 		_ = spec.Store.CompleteRoot("private change made")
@@ -681,6 +683,11 @@ func TestAPrivateTaskRunsElsewhereAndWaitsForLocalReviewAndApply(t *testing.T) {
 	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(a.config.Workspace, "private-output.txt")); !os.IsNotExist(err) {
 		t.Fatal("private result applied before review")
 	}
+	// macOS gives a new file its folder's group, and the private copy sits under
+	// this test's temporary home, so with TMPDIR in /private/tmp the returned
+	// file is wheel's and Apply cannot carry that group. The fixture takes the
+	// process's own, as the other Apply fixtures do.
+	normalizeWorkspaceApplyFixtureMetadata(t, written)
 	review, err := a.ReviewTaskWorkspaceRoot(context.Background(), id, "work")
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
diff --git a/internal/session/task_start_r8b_test.go b/internal/session/task_start_r8b_test.go
index 3d33c90777..9daf8acfc2 100644
--- a/internal/session/task_start_r8b_test.go
+++ b/internal/session/task_start_r8b_test.go
@@ -123,6 +123,12 @@ func remoteStartHome(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = os.RemoveAll(home) })
+	// On macOS /tmp is a link into /private/tmp, and owned conversation
+	// storage refuses a recorded binding whose spelling crosses a link. A real
+	// home is already canonical, so the fixture names its home the same way.
+	if home, err = filepath.EvalSymlinks(home); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
 	t.Setenv("HOME", home)
 	t.Setenv("CODEAF_HOME", home)
 }