diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index fbc3d4c..2408f09 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ Tests use **MSTest.Sdk** targeting net10.0 only. The test project (`Essentials.T
 - `CacheProviderTests.cs` - Tests cache operations including expiration, and that a legitimately cached `null` is honoured rather than treated as a miss: `Get`/`GetAsync` return it instead of throwing, and `GetOrAdd`/`GetOrAddAsync` return it without re-invoking the factory. `TryGet`'s `bool` is the sole authority on presence — a null check on the value is not a proxy for it. It also pins that an expired entry's removal leaves a value set concurrently under the same key in place (a key type that runs the `Set` between `TryGet`'s read and its remove makes that interleaving deterministic), and that a `TimeSpan.MaxValue` or `TimeSpan.MinValue` time-to-live saturates rather than overflowing
 - `CommandExecutorTests.cs` - Tests command execution, including the synchronous path, cancellation before and during a run (and that both paths kill a cancelled command rather than leaving it to finish, issue #53), a working directory that does not exist, that the synchronous and asynchronous paths capture the same bytes for a command whose output ends without a terminator, and that `ExecuteAndGetOutput` throws unwrapped. `ICommandExecutor`'s own synchronous defaults are reached through a test double that declares only the asynchronous members, since `NativeCommandExecutor` replaces them
 - `EncodingProviderTests.cs` - Tests Base64 and Hex encoding
-- `ObfuscationProviderTests.cs` - Tests all obfuscation providers via round-trip (obfuscate → deobfuscate)
+- `ObfuscationProviderTests.cs` - Tests all obfuscation providers via round-trip (obfuscate → deobfuscate), and that the Composite runs its stages in order to obfuscate and in reverse to deobfuscate, on the span, stream and async paths, using an order-sensitive `[Base64, Reverse]` pair, since a pipeline run backwards in both directions would still round-trip
 - `FileSystemProviderTests.cs` - Tests filesystem operations
 - `LoggingProviderTests.cs` - Tests the console logging provider through `AddEssentials()`
 - `FileLoggingProviderTests.cs` - Tests the rolling file logger against `InMemoryFileSystemProvider`: line format and escaping, rolling and retention, concurrency, dropped writes, DI
diff --git a/Essentials.Tests/ObfuscationProviderTests.cs b/Essentials.Tests/ObfuscationProviderTests.cs
index 8ee5aeb..ba91205 100644
--- a/Essentials.Tests/ObfuscationProviderTests.cs
+++ b/Essentials.Tests/ObfuscationProviderTests.cs
@@ -5,10 +5,12 @@ namespace ktsu.Essentials.Tests;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Text;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
 using ktsu.Essentials;
 using ktsu.Essentials.ObfuscationProviders.Base64;
 using ktsu.Essentials.ObfuscationProviders.Composite;
 using ktsu.Essentials.ObfuscationProviders.Hex;
+using ktsu.Essentials.ObfuscationProviders.Reverse;
 using ktsu.Essentials.ObfuscationProviders.Xor;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
 using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
@@ -256,4 +258,95 @@ public void Obfuscation_Composite_WithFallibleStage_Roundtrips()
 
 		CollectionAssert.AreEqual(original, provider.Deobfuscate(provider.Obfuscate(original)));
 	}
+
+	// Base64-encoding then reversing gives different bytes from reversing then encoding, so the pair
+	// is sensitive to stage order, which a round-trip test alone cannot see: a composite that ran
+	// both directions backwards would still undo itself.
+	private static readonly IObfuscationProvider FirstStage = new Base64ObfuscationProvider();
+	private static readonly IObfuscationProvider SecondStage = new ReverseObfuscationProvider();
+
+	private static readonly byte[] OrderSample = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("composite stages run in order");
+
+	private static IObfuscationProvider OrderedComposite()
+		=> new CompositeObfuscationProvider([FirstStage, SecondStage]);
+
+	private static byte[] InOrder(byte[] data) => SecondStage.Obfuscate(FirstStage.Obfuscate(data));
+
+	private static byte[] OutOfOrder(byte[] data) => FirstStage.Obfuscate(SecondStage.Obfuscate(data));
+
+	private static byte[] ReverseOrder(byte[] data) => FirstStage.Deobfuscate(SecondStage.Deobfuscate(data));
+
+	[TestMethod]
+	public void Obfuscation_Composite_ChosenStagesAreOrderSensitive()
+		=> CollectionAssert.AreNotEqual(InOrder(OrderSample), OutOfOrder(OrderSample), "The test pair must give different bytes in each order");
+
+	[TestMethod]
+	public void Obfuscation_Composite_Span_AppliesStagesInOrder()
+	{
+		IObfuscationProvider provider = OrderedComposite();
+		byte[] destination = new byte[provider.GetMaxObfuscatedLength(OrderSample.Length)];
+
+		Assert.IsTrue(provider.TryObfuscate(OrderSample, destination, out int bytesWritten));
+
+		CollectionAssert.AreEqual(InOrder(OrderSample), destination.AsSpan(0, bytesWritten).ToArray());
+	}
+
+	[TestMethod]
+	public void Obfuscation_Composite_Span_DeobfuscatesStagesInReverseOrder()
+	{
+		IObfuscationProvider provider = OrderedComposite();
+		byte[] obfuscated = InOrder(OrderSample);
+		byte[] destination = new byte[provider.GetMaxDeobfuscatedLength(obfuscated.Length)];
+
+		Assert.IsTrue(provider.TryDeobfuscate(obfuscated, destination, out int bytesWritten));
+
+		CollectionAssert.AreEqual(ReverseOrder(obfuscated), destination.AsSpan(0, bytesWritten).ToArray());
+		CollectionAssert.AreEqual(OrderSample, destination.AsSpan(0, bytesWritten).ToArray());
+	}
+
+	[TestMethod]
+	public void Obfuscation_Composite_Stream_AppliesStagesInOrder()
+	{
+		IObfuscationProvider provider = OrderedComposite();
+		using MemoryStream input = new(OrderSample);
+		using MemoryStream output = new();
+
+		Assert.IsTrue(provider.TryObfuscate(input, output));
+
+		CollectionAssert.AreEqual(InOrder(OrderSample), output.ToArray());
+	}
+
+	[TestMethod]
+	public void Obfuscation_Composite_Stream_DeobfuscatesStagesInReverseOrder()
+	{
+		IObfuscationProvider provider = OrderedComposite();
+		byte[] obfuscated = InOrder(OrderSample);
+		using MemoryStream input = new(obfuscated);
+		using MemoryStream output = new();
+
+		Assert.IsTrue(provider.TryDeobfuscate(input, output));
+
+		CollectionAssert.AreEqual(ReverseOrder(obfuscated), output.ToArray());
+	}
+
+	[TestMethod]
+	public async Task Obfuscation_Composite_Async_AppliesStagesInOrder()
+	{
+		IObfuscationProvider provider = OrderedComposite();
+
+		byte[] obfuscated = await provider.ObfuscateAsync(OrderSample, TestContext.CancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
+
+		CollectionAssert.AreEqual(InOrder(OrderSample), obfuscated);
+	}
+
+	[TestMethod]
+	public async Task Obfuscation_Composite_Async_DeobfuscatesStagesInReverseOrder()
+	{
+		IObfuscationProvider provider = OrderedComposite();
+		byte[] obfuscated = InOrder(OrderSample);
+
+		byte[] restored = await provider.DeobfuscateAsync(obfuscated, TestContext.CancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
+
+		CollectionAssert.AreEqual(ReverseOrder(obfuscated), restored);
+	}
 }
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