diff --git a/src/core/ui/CLAUDE.md b/src/core/ui/CLAUDE.md
index 3603afd..f11d14a 100644
--- a/src/core/ui/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/src/core/ui/CLAUDE.md
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ L7 sub-pass, 2026-07-27):
 - `theme` — pure palette module: role→color mapping, REAPER-grey neutral ladder + the pastel accent system, the keyboard strip's spectral ramp, WCAG contrast-floor helpers + `compositeOver` (the effective color of a translucent fill, so alpha overlays are testable). Only the ramp's MID stop is its own constant; lo/hi are still aliases of `accent/primary`/`accent/tertiary`, so a categorical accent move CAN still reorder the ramp — `testSpectralRampLuminanceIsMonotonic` is the build-time catch, not the structure.
 - `component_geometry` — pure button/slider/list-row geometry + hover hit-test helpers.
 - `action_bar` — pure task-grouped action-bar layout/hit-test: clusters (Capture / Placement / Maintenance / Tagging / Switching).
-- `footer_bar` — pure footer layout/hit-test: `[Arrange|Design]` mode-toggle geometry, Tail button, and Prune placement, plus `modeSegmentEnabled` — the mode segment's live/dead predicate under the playback gate (the transport bool is passed IN, so this stays REAPER-free).
+- `footer_bar` — pure footer layout/hit-test: `[Arrange|Design]` mode-toggle geometry, Tail button, and Prune placement, plus `modeSegmentEnabled` — the mode segment's live/dead predicate under the playback gate AND under whether the shell resolved a routable command id for it (both bools passed IN, so this stays REAPER-free).
 - `overflow_menu` — pure overflow-menu-button geometry/reserve/hit-test for the top-toolbar More (⋯) button.
 - `mode_enable` — pure opposite-mode enablement predicate: given the active mode, computes per-button live/disabled state for the four Item/Track × Arrange/Design tag buttons.
 - `tooltip` — pure tooltip placement + prefix-strip: strips the `ReaSampler:` display prefix from the registered action phrase; width clamped to the client rect.
diff --git a/src/core/ui/footer_bar.cpp b/src/core/ui/footer_bar.cpp
index a7a4f11..e945ef7 100644
--- a/src/core/ui/footer_bar.cpp
+++ b/src/core/ui/footer_bar.cpp
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ FooterHit hitTestFooterBar(int px, int py, const FooterBarLayout& layout) {
     return FooterHit::None;
 }
 
-bool modeSegmentEnabled(bool isActiveSegment, bool transportRunning) {
-    return isActiveSegment || !transportRunning;
+bool modeSegmentEnabled(bool isActiveSegment, bool transportRunning, bool routable) {
+    return isActiveSegment || (!transportRunning && routable);
 }
 
 } // namespace reasampler::ui
diff --git a/src/core/ui/footer_bar.h b/src/core/ui/footer_bar.h
index a377530..9b2c562 100644
--- a/src/core/ui/footer_bar.h
+++ b/src/core/ui/footer_bar.h
@@ -65,7 +65,11 @@ FooterHit hitTestFooterBar(int px, int py, const FooterBarLayout& layout);
 // plays or records (shell/view::transportBlocksModeSwitch), so an unreachable segment must READ
 // dead before the click, not merely refuse on it. The ACTIVE segment stays live regardless: it
 // fires a reapply, which is never gated, and dimming the mode you are already in would read as
-// "this mode is unavailable" rather than "you cannot leave it right now".
-bool modeSegmentEnabled(bool isActiveSegment, bool transportRunning);
+// "this mode is unavailable" rather than "you cannot leave it right now". `routable` is whether
+// the shell resolved a live command id for this segment (the model is N-mode, the UI ships two
+// seeded ids — a third registered mode has no action to route through, so its segment must read
+// dead rather than paint live and silently no-op on click). Passed IN so this predicate — and
+// `core/ui` — stays REAPER-free, exactly as `transportRunning` is.
+bool modeSegmentEnabled(bool isActiveSegment, bool transportRunning, bool routable);
 
 } // namespace reasampler::ui
diff --git a/src/core/view/CLAUDE.md b/src/core/view/CLAUDE.md
index 59d2de1..b8ecfbd 100644
--- a/src/core/view/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/src/core/view/CLAUDE.md
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ settled 2026-07-23):
 ## Modules
 
 - `view_mode_model` — Design View mode system: mode registry, GUID-keyed membership, folder-tree-aware visibility derivation, snapshot-based park/restore planner, the per-mode `SoloCache` it owns, JSON round-trip.
-- `solo_cache` — the per-mode solo surface: `SoloCache` (mode id → GUID → raw `I_SOLO`), the soloed-subset filter, and `planSoloRestore`, whose two drop rules (dead GUID, track parked in the incoming mode) and their reasoning live in its header.
+- `solo_cache` — the per-mode solo surface: `SoloCache` (mode id → GUID → raw `I_SOLO`), the soloed-subset filter, and `planSoloRestore`, whose two drop rules (dead GUID, not visible in the incoming mode) and their reasoning live in its header.
 - `view_tree` — pure `I_FOLDERDEPTH`→FolderTree helper for the Design View shell.
 - `mode_switch` — REAPER-free segment layout + hit-test for the bank_panel's Design View mode switch.
 - `guid_diff` — the pure, REAPER-free core of the D2 Wave-2 new-content detection: `newGuids(previous, current)` computes the GUIDs present in `current` but absent from `previous` (empty GUIDs ignored); `GuidBaseline` tracks the live GUID set across polls for one project, implementing the first-poll-after-open guard (the first `observe()` after construction/`reset()` records a baseline and reports nothing new, so pre-existing content is never mass-tagged) and re-arms via `reset()` on a detected project switch so detection never diffs across two unrelated projects.
diff --git a/src/core/view/solo_cache.cpp b/src/core/view/solo_cache.cpp
index cc68404..753b7a0 100644
--- a/src/core/view/solo_cache.cpp
+++ b/src/core/view/solo_cache.cpp
@@ -53,11 +53,11 @@ std::size_t SoloCache::reconcile(const std::set<std::string>& liveGuids) {
 
 std::vector<SoloOp> planSoloRestore(const std::map<std::string, int>& cached,
                                     const std::set<std::string>& liveGuids,
-                                    const std::set<std::string>& parkedGuids) {
+                                    const std::set<std::string>& visibleGuids) {
     std::vector<SoloOp> ops;
     for (const auto& [guid, value] : cached) {
         if (liveGuids.count(guid) == 0) continue;
-        if (parkedGuids.count(guid) != 0) continue;
+        if (visibleGuids.count(guid) == 0) continue;
         ops.push_back(SoloOp{guid, value});
     }
     return ops;
diff --git a/src/core/view/solo_cache.h b/src/core/view/solo_cache.h
index 4b7c884..4baa715 100644
--- a/src/core/view/solo_cache.h
+++ b/src/core/view/solo_cache.h
@@ -73,14 +73,18 @@ private:
 // The incoming mode's restore writes, in GUID order. Two kinds of entry are dropped
 // rather than written:
 //   * a GUID absent from `liveGuids` — the track is gone (same prune rule as above);
-//   * a GUID parked in the incoming mode — a parked track is hidden and carries
-//     B_MAINSEND=0, so soloing it would silence the whole mix while contributing
-//     nothing audible, and the user would have no visible control to undo it.
+//   * a GUID absent from `visibleGuids` — not visible in the incoming mode, whether
+//     because the leaf is parked or because it is a folder parent that is itself
+//     derived-invisible there. Either way the track is hidden and (for a parked
+//     leaf) carries B_MAINSEND=0, so soloing it would silence the whole mix while
+//     contributing nothing audible, and the user would have no visible control to
+//     undo it. A show-both leaf is a member of every mode's visible set, so it is
+//     never dropped by this rule.
 // The caller consumes the whole mode entry regardless (clear-on-restore), so a
 // dropped entry does not linger as zombie state waiting on a track that may never
-// come back unparked.
+// become visible again.
 std::vector<SoloOp> planSoloRestore(const std::map<std::string, int>& cached,
                                     const std::set<std::string>& liveGuids,
-                                    const std::set<std::string>& parkedGuids);
+                                    const std::set<std::string>& visibleGuids);
 
 } // namespace reasampler::view
diff --git a/src/shell/actions/design_view_actions.cpp b/src/shell/actions/design_view_actions.cpp
index a4f1455..a6f45ca 100644
--- a/src/shell/actions/design_view_actions.cpp
+++ b/src/shell/actions/design_view_actions.cpp
@@ -162,8 +162,10 @@ void persistViewState() {
 }
 
 // The footer segment already reads disabled while the transport runs, but an action can
-// be fired with the panel closed — so the refusal also lands as a status line. Guarded on
-// the transport because applyMode's other refusal is an unregistered mode id.
+// be fired with the panel closed — so the refusal also goes through Help_Set (SDK
+// documents only the signature, not its display surface; inferred to be visible
+// feedback by name, not confirmed). Guarded on the transport because applyMode's
+// other refusal is an unregistered mode id.
 void reportModeSwitchRefused() {
     if (transportBlocksModeSwitch(nullptr) && Help_Set)
         Help_Set("ReaSampler: stop the transport to switch view mode", true);
diff --git a/src/shell/panel/panel_input.cpp b/src/shell/panel/panel_input.cpp
index 2299c33..8fbd912 100644
--- a/src/shell/panel/panel_input.cpp
+++ b/src/shell/panel/panel_input.cpp
@@ -44,6 +44,20 @@ TailSetting currentTail() {
     return g_panel.session ? g_panel.session->tail() : TailSetting{};
 }
 
+// The registered activate action behind a footer mode segment, or 0 if the mode has none.
+// Routing the segment through the SAME action the Actions list fires is what gives a
+// panel-initiated switch the persist + repaint it used to skip; a mode with no such
+// action (the model is N-mode, the UI ships two) resolves to 0 here, which
+// modeSegmentEnabled reads as unroutable so the segment paints dead rather than live-
+// but-inert. Non-anonymous: panel_render.cpp resolves the same id to compute that bool.
+int modeActivateCommandId(const std::string& modeId) {
+    ActionBarRow row{};
+    if (modeId == kArrangeModeId)     row.suffix = "VIEW_ACTIVATE_ARRANGE";
+    else if (modeId == kDesignModeId) row.suffix = "VIEW_ACTIVATE_DESIGN";
+    else                              return 0;
+    return resolveBarCommandId(row);
+}
+
 namespace {
 
 // Commits the current tail setting to ext state and marks the active project dirty so the
@@ -76,18 +90,6 @@ bool handleToolbarClick(int x, int y, const ActionBarRect& bar,
     return true;
 }
 
-// The registered activate action behind a footer mode segment. Routing the segment
-// through the SAME action the Actions list fires is what gives a panel-initiated switch
-// the persist + repaint it used to skip; a mode with no such action (the model is
-// N-mode, the UI ships two) is unreachable from the footer rather than routed around it.
-int modeActivateCommandId(const std::string& modeId) {
-    ActionBarRow row{};
-    if (modeId == kArrangeModeId)     row.suffix = "VIEW_ACTIVATE_ARRANGE";
-    else if (modeId == kDesignModeId) row.suffix = "VIEW_ACTIVATE_DESIGN";
-    else                              return 0;
-    return resolveBarCommandId(row);
-}
-
 // True iff `tr` has I_FREEMODE==2 (fixed lanes enabled). Value verified in view.cpp;
 // reproduced locally so this file stays self-contained.
 constexpr int kFreeModeFixedLanes = 2;
@@ -316,11 +318,10 @@ void handleClick(int x, int y) {
             if (seg < static_cast<int>(modes.size())) {
                 const std::string& id = modes[static_cast<std::size_t>(seg)].id;
                 const bool isActive = id == view.activeModeId();
-                // Disabled while the transport runs: claimed but inert, the same shape a
-                // disabled toolbar row takes — a dead segment reads inert, never absent,
-                // and never falls through to the grid.
-                if (modeSegmentEnabled(isActive, g_panel.modeSwitchBlocked)) {
-                    const int cmd = modeActivateCommandId(id);
+                const int cmd = modeActivateCommandId(id);
+                // Disabled/dead rationale: core/ui/footer_bar.h. Claimed but inert, the
+                // same shape a disabled toolbar row takes — never falls through to the grid.
+                if (modeSegmentEnabled(isActive, g_panel.modeSwitchBlocked, cmd != 0)) {
                     if (cmd != 0 && Main_OnCommand) Main_OnCommand(cmd, 0);
                 }
             }
diff --git a/src/shell/panel/panel_render.cpp b/src/shell/panel/panel_render.cpp
index 608f786..cd6be8f 100644
--- a/src/shell/panel/panel_render.cpp
+++ b/src/shell/panel/panel_render.cpp
@@ -112,9 +112,9 @@ void drawFooter(LICE_IBitmap* bmp, int w, int h) {
             const SegmentRect& s = segs[static_cast<std::size_t>(i)];
             const Mode& mode = modes[static_cast<std::size_t>(i)];
             const bool active = mode.id == activeId;
-            // A switch is refused while the transport runs, so an unreachable segment
-            // draws dead rather than inviting a click that would silently do nothing.
-            const bool live = modeSegmentEnabled(active, g_panel.modeSwitchBlocked);
+            // Disabled/dead rationale: core/ui/footer_bar.h.
+            const bool live = modeSegmentEnabled(active, g_panel.modeSwitchBlocked,
+                                                 modeActivateCommandId(mode.id) != 0);
             const InteractionState state =
                 active ? InteractionState::Active
                        : (live ? hoverState(g_panel.hovered, HoverKind::ModeSegment, i)
diff --git a/src/shell/panel/panel_state.h b/src/shell/panel/panel_state.h
index 5d5ea7c..a16eb6c 100644
--- a/src/shell/panel/panel_state.h
+++ b/src/shell/panel/panel_state.h
@@ -292,10 +292,10 @@ struct PanelState {
     unsigned int hoverSinceTick = 0;
     bool tooltipShown = false;
 
-    // Polled on the OnTimer tick (REAPER exposes no transport-change callback): a mode
-    // switch is refused while the transport runs, so the footer's [Arrange|Design]
-    // segments paint disabled. Cached rather than read per paint AND per click so the
-    // pixel the user saw and the click they made cannot disagree within a tick.
+    // Polled on the OnTimer tick (REAPER exposes no transport-change callback). Feeds
+    // modeSegmentEnabled (core/ui/footer_bar.h). Cached rather than read per paint AND
+    // per click so the pixel the user saw and the click they made cannot disagree
+    // within a tick.
     bool modeSwitchBlocked = false;
 
     BankPanelFullHeight fullHeight = BankPanelFullHeight::Split;
@@ -485,6 +485,9 @@ void startAudition(int idx);
 // panel_input.cpp — click/wheel/key routing, accelerator, new-content detection,
 // and the session-tail read/mutate helpers.
 TailSetting currentTail();
+// The registered activate action behind a footer mode segment, or 0 if unroutable.
+// Shared with panel_render.cpp so paint and click resolve the same id.
+int modeActivateCommandId(const std::string& modeId);
 void handleClick(int x, int y);
 bool handleWheel(int x, int y, int delta);
 void registerAccel();
diff --git a/src/shell/view/CLAUDE.md b/src/shell/view/CLAUDE.md
index c36c7e6..ac49705 100644
--- a/src/shell/view/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/src/shell/view/CLAUDE.md
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ applies the resulting lane state to live tracks.
 ## Modules
 
 - `view` — Design View shell: snapshots flag values before parking, drives hide + CPU-park on inactive-mode leaves (`B_SHOWINTCP`/`B_SHOWINMIXER`/`B_MAINSEND`/`I_FXEN` + per-FX offline), restores from snapshot. Owns the one discriminator (`target != active`) that separates a real switch from a reapply, and with it both the playback gate (`transportBlocksModeSwitch`) and the solo cache/clear/restore seams. **Never touches master or `B_MUTE`.**
-- `view_solo` — the `I_SOLO` read/write pair behind the per-mode solo surface. Holds no policy: what to cache, clear, or replay is `core/view/solo_cache`.
+- `view_solo` — the `I_SOLO` read/write pair behind the per-mode solo surface, plus `clearTrackSolos`/`restoreTrackSolos`, the outgoing-clear and incoming-replay entry points `view` drives them through. Holds no policy: what to cache, clear, or replay is `core/view/solo_cache`.
 
 ## Gotchas
 
@@ -94,3 +94,9 @@ applies the resulting lane state to live tracks.
   (fixed-lane mechanics, mode-aware capture placement, hidden-AND-silenced) are
   reflected in Invariants above; the membership/lane-ownership model concepts
   it also covers live in `core/view`'s Invariants.
+- REAPER's own undo restores live `I_SOLO` but not the model's solo cache or
+  `activeModeId` — neither rolls back with a Ctrl-Z. An undo after a mode switch
+  leaves the two out of step, and the next switch banks the undo-restored solos
+  under whatever mode id is active at that point, not the one the user undid back
+  to. Pre-existing: `snapshots_` already carries this same model-vs-undo split;
+  the solo cache inherits it rather than introducing it. Not fixed here.
diff --git a/src/shell/view/view.cpp b/src/shell/view/view.cpp
index bb628e8..a81058f 100644
--- a/src/shell/view/view.cpp
+++ b/src/shell/view/view.cpp
@@ -60,15 +60,6 @@ constexpr int kFreeModeFixedLanes = 2;
 // deliberately excluded, nothing is moving there.
 constexpr int kTransportMoving = 1 | 4;
 
-// GUIDs the plan parks in the mode being entered — the set a solo restore skips.
-std::set<std::string> parkedGuidsOf(const TogglePlan& plan) {
-    std::set<std::string> parked;
-    for (const TrackPlan& tp : plan.park) {
-        if (!tp.flags.empty()) parked.insert(tp.flags.front().guid);
-    }
-    return parked;
-}
-
 // C_LANESCOLLAPSED=2: render a tool-split track like a normal single-lane
 // track showing only the playing lane (SDK: 1=collapsed, 2=hidden-lanes-exist
 // but displays as non-fixed-lane).
@@ -394,7 +385,6 @@ bool applyMintPlan(ViewModeModel& model, const LaneMintPlan& plan,
 } // namespace
 
 bool transportBlocksModeSwitch(ReaProject* proj) {
-    if (!GetPlayStateEx) return false;  // fail-open: never gate on a missing API pointer
     return (GetPlayStateEx(proj) & kTransportMoving) != 0;
 }
 
@@ -439,11 +429,7 @@ bool applyMode(ViewModeModel& model, const std::string& targetModeId, ReaProject
     // ride the existing undo block — one mode toggle stays one Ctrl-Z.
     if (realSwitch) {
         model.soloCache().store(outgoingModeId, outgoingSolo);
-        std::vector<view::SoloOp> clearOps;
-        clearOps.reserve(outgoingSolo.size());
-        for (const auto& entry : outgoingSolo)
-            clearOps.push_back(view::SoloOp{entry.first, 0});
-        applySoloOps(handleByGuid, clearOps);
+        clearTrackSolos(handleByGuid, outgoingSolo);
     }
 
     // PARK: snapshot before mutating, store into the model, then apply.
@@ -502,11 +488,13 @@ bool applyMode(ViewModeModel& model, const std::string& targetModeId, ReaProject
 
     model.setActiveMode(targetModeId);
 
-    // Replay + consume, before the single relayout below picks the change up.
+    // Replay + consume, before the single relayout below picks the change up. Dropped
+    // against `visible` (computed above for parent visibility), not the park plan: a
+    // folder parent can be hidden without being parked, and a hidden track must not
+    // receive a replayed solo it carries no visible control to undo.
     if (realSwitch) {
         if (const std::map<std::string, int>* cached = model.soloCache().query(targetModeId)) {
-            applySoloOps(handleByGuid,
-                         view::planSoloRestore(*cached, liveGuids, parkedGuidsOf(plan)));
+            restoreTrackSolos(handleByGuid, *cached, liveGuids, visible);
             model.soloCache().clear(targetModeId);
         }
     }
diff --git a/src/shell/view/view.h b/src/shell/view/view.h
index 8c6e7ab..94448ed 100644
--- a/src/shell/view/view.h
+++ b/src/shell/view/view.h
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 // ViewModeModel's pure planner, and applies the resulting flag / per-FX /
 // lane writes. The .cpp is the sole REAPER-facing TU here (CLAUDE.md contract:
 // only main.cpp defines the API pointers). See src/shell/view/CLAUDE.md for
-// the enforced invariants (never touch master/mute/solo, snapshot-based restore).
+// the enforced invariants (never touch master/mute, solo cached per mode and
+// never lost, snapshot-based restore).
 
 #include <string>
 
@@ -17,7 +18,9 @@ namespace reasampler {
 // True while `proj`'s transport is playing or recording — the condition under which
 // applyMode refuses a real mode switch. Exposed so the panel can paint the footer's
 // [Arrange|Design] segments disabled BEFORE the click rather than only refusing on
-// it. `proj` == nullptr means the current project.
+// it. `proj` is passed through to GetPlayStateEx as-is; the SDK documents proj=0
+// meaning "current project" for GetTrack but is silent on GetPlayStateEx, so
+// `nullptr` meaning the current project here is inferred by analogy, not confirmed.
 bool transportBlocksModeSwitch(ReaProject* proj);
 
 // Snapshots each about-to-park track's flags into `model`, caches/clears the
diff --git a/src/shell/view/view_solo.cpp b/src/shell/view/view_solo.cpp
index 70f19d5..20a925c 100644
--- a/src/shell/view/view_solo.cpp
+++ b/src/shell/view/view_solo.cpp
@@ -44,4 +44,18 @@ void applySoloOps(const TrackHandles& handles, const std::vector<view::SoloOp>&
     }
 }
 
+void clearTrackSolos(const TrackHandles& handles, const std::map<std::string, int>& soloed) {
+    std::vector<view::SoloOp> ops;
+    ops.reserve(soloed.size());
+    for (const auto& entry : soloed) ops.push_back(view::SoloOp{entry.first, 0});
+    applySoloOps(handles, ops);
+}
+
+void restoreTrackSolos(const TrackHandles& handles,
+                       const std::map<std::string, int>& cached,
+                       const std::set<std::string>& liveGuids,
+                       const std::set<std::string>& visibleGuids) {
+    applySoloOps(handles, view::planSoloRestore(cached, liveGuids, visibleGuids));
+}
+
 } // namespace reasampler
diff --git a/src/shell/view/view_solo.h b/src/shell/view/view_solo.h
index 7c0463f..7e4d5bb 100644
--- a/src/shell/view/view_solo.h
+++ b/src/shell/view/view_solo.h
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 // to cache, clear, or replay is core/view/solo_cache; this pair only moves I_SOLO
 // between the live tracks and that pure plan.
 
+#include <map>
+#include <set>
 #include <string>
 #include <utility>
 #include <vector>
@@ -25,4 +27,15 @@ std::vector<view::TrackSolo> readTrackSolos(const TrackHandles& handles);
 // absent from the enumeration is skipped (stale/deleted track).
 void applySoloOps(const TrackHandles& handles, const std::vector<view::SoloOp>& ops);
 
+// The outgoing-mode clear: zeroes I_SOLO for every GUID in `soloed` (the just-banked
+// values applyMode is about to cache).
+void clearTrackSolos(const TrackHandles& handles, const std::map<std::string, int>& soloed);
+
+// The incoming-mode replay: applies `cached` filtered through planSoloRestore's drop
+// rules (dead GUID, not visible in the incoming mode).
+void restoreTrackSolos(const TrackHandles& handles,
+                       const std::map<std::string, int>& cached,
+                       const std::set<std::string>& liveGuids,
+                       const std::set<std::string>& visibleGuids);
+
 } // namespace reasampler
diff --git a/tests/test_footer_bar.cpp b/tests/test_footer_bar.cpp
index e008e2a..88717dd 100644
--- a/tests/test_footer_bar.cpp
+++ b/tests/test_footer_bar.cpp
@@ -231,20 +231,32 @@ static void testResizeSweepNoOverlap() {
 // --- Mode-segment enablement (the playback gate's visible half) ---------------
 
 static void testModeSegmentsAreLiveWithTheTransportStopped() {
-    CHECK(modeSegmentEnabled(/*isActiveSegment=*/false, /*transportRunning=*/false));
-    CHECK(modeSegmentEnabled(/*isActiveSegment=*/true, /*transportRunning=*/false));
+    CHECK(modeSegmentEnabled(/*isActiveSegment=*/false, /*transportRunning=*/false, /*routable=*/true));
+    CHECK(modeSegmentEnabled(/*isActiveSegment=*/true, /*transportRunning=*/false, /*routable=*/true));
 }
 
 static void testInactiveSegmentGoesDeadWhileTheTransportRuns() {
     // The one that would fire a real switch — refused while playing/recording, so it
     // must read dead rather than invite a click that silently does nothing.
-    CHECK(!modeSegmentEnabled(/*isActiveSegment=*/false, /*transportRunning=*/true));
+    CHECK(!modeSegmentEnabled(/*isActiveSegment=*/false, /*transportRunning=*/true, /*routable=*/true));
 }
 
 static void testActiveSegmentStaysLiveWhileTheTransportRuns() {
     // Clicking the mode you are already in is a reapply, which is never gated;
     // dimming it would read as "this mode is unavailable".
-    CHECK(modeSegmentEnabled(/*isActiveSegment=*/true, /*transportRunning=*/true));
+    CHECK(modeSegmentEnabled(/*isActiveSegment=*/true, /*transportRunning=*/true, /*routable=*/false));
+}
+
+static void testInactiveSegmentGoesDeadWhenUnroutable() {
+    // A third registered mode with no seeded command id (the model is N-mode, the UI
+    // ships two ids) must read dead, not live-but-silently-inert on click.
+    CHECK(!modeSegmentEnabled(/*isActiveSegment=*/false, /*transportRunning=*/false, /*routable=*/false));
+}
+
+static void testActiveSegmentStaysLiveEvenWhenUnroutable() {
+    // The active segment always fires a reapply through its own already-resolved id in
+    // practice, but the predicate's active bypass does not consult routable either way.
+    CHECK(modeSegmentEnabled(/*isActiveSegment=*/true, /*transportRunning=*/false, /*routable=*/false));
 }
 
 int main() {
@@ -263,6 +275,8 @@ int main() {
     testModeSegmentsAreLiveWithTheTransportStopped();
     testInactiveSegmentGoesDeadWhileTheTransportRuns();
     testActiveSegmentStaysLiveWhileTheTransportRuns();
+    testInactiveSegmentGoesDeadWhenUnroutable();
+    testActiveSegmentStaysLiveEvenWhenUnroutable();
 
     if (g_fail == 0) std::printf("footer_bar: all tests passed\n");
     else std::printf("footer_bar: %d CHECK(s) FAILED\n", g_fail);
diff --git a/tests/test_solo_cache.cpp b/tests/test_solo_cache.cpp
index 37316b3..6567c63 100644
--- a/tests/test_solo_cache.cpp
+++ b/tests/test_solo_cache.cpp
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 //
 // Covers: the soloed-subset filter (zeros and empty GUIDs dropped, raw values kept),
 // the cache's store/query/clear lifecycle including the empty-set-removes rule, GUID
-// pruning on reconcile, and the restore plan's two drop rules (dead GUID, parked
-// track).
+// pruning on reconcile, and the restore plan's two drop rules (dead GUID, not visible
+// in the incoming mode — covering both a parked leaf and a derived-invisible parent).
 
 #include "../src/core/view/solo_cache.h"
 
@@ -120,9 +120,9 @@ static void testReconcileWithEveryGuidLiveRemovesNothing() {
 
 // --- planSoloRestore ---------------------------------------------------------
 
-static void testRestorePlanReplaysEveryLiveUnparkedEntryVerbatim() {
+static void testRestorePlanReplaysEveryLiveVisibleEntryVerbatim() {
     const std::vector<SoloOp> ops =
-        planSoloRestore({{"{A}", 1}, {"{B}", 2}}, {"{A}", "{B}"}, {});
+        planSoloRestore({{"{A}", 1}, {"{B}", 2}}, {"{A}", "{B}"}, {"{A}", "{B}"});
 
     CHECK(ops.size() == 2);
     CHECK(ops[0] == (SoloOp{"{A}", 1}));
@@ -131,23 +131,34 @@ static void testRestorePlanReplaysEveryLiveUnparkedEntryVerbatim() {
 
 static void testRestorePlanSkipsAGuidThatNoLongerExists() {
     const std::vector<SoloOp> ops =
-        planSoloRestore({{"{GONE}", 1}, {"{HERE}", 1}}, {"{HERE}"}, {});
+        planSoloRestore({{"{GONE}", 1}, {"{HERE}", 1}}, {"{HERE}"}, {"{HERE}"});
 
     CHECK(ops.size() == 1);
     CHECK(ops[0].guid == "{HERE}");
 }
 
-static void testRestorePlanSkipsATrackParkedInTheIncomingMode() {
+static void testRestorePlanSkipsAParkedLeafNotVisibleInTheIncomingMode() {
     // Soloing a parked track would silence the mix while contributing nothing
     // audible, and the track is hidden, so the user could not undo it.
     const std::vector<SoloOp> ops =
         planSoloRestore({{"{PARKED}", 1}, {"{VISIBLE}", 2}}, {"{PARKED}", "{VISIBLE}"},
-                        {"{PARKED}"});
+                        {"{VISIBLE}"});
 
     CHECK(ops.size() == 1);
     CHECK(ops[0] == (SoloOp{"{VISIBLE}", 2}));
 }
 
+static void testRestorePlanSkipsAFolderParentHiddenInTheIncomingMode() {
+    // The parent is never parked (parents are never parked — see planToggle), but a
+    // derived-invisible parent is hidden all the same: replaying its cached solo
+    // would silence the mix onto a track the user cannot see or unsolo. `visibleGuids`
+    // (not the park plan) is the drop set precisely so this case is caught too.
+    const std::vector<SoloOp> ops =
+        planSoloRestore({{"{HIDDEN_PARENT}", 1}}, {"{HIDDEN_PARENT}"}, {});
+
+    CHECK(ops.empty());
+}
+
 static void testRestorePlanOfAnEmptyCacheWritesNothing() {
     CHECK(planSoloRestore({}, {"{A}"}, {}).empty());
 }
@@ -166,9 +177,10 @@ int main() {
     testReconcileDropsDeadGuidsAcrossEveryMode();
     testReconcileWithEveryGuidLiveRemovesNothing();
 
-    testRestorePlanReplaysEveryLiveUnparkedEntryVerbatim();
+    testRestorePlanReplaysEveryLiveVisibleEntryVerbatim();
     testRestorePlanSkipsAGuidThatNoLongerExists();
-    testRestorePlanSkipsATrackParkedInTheIncomingMode();
+    testRestorePlanSkipsAParkedLeafNotVisibleInTheIncomingMode();
+    testRestorePlanSkipsAFolderParentHiddenInTheIncomingMode();
     testRestorePlanOfAnEmptyCacheWritesNothing();
 
     if (g_fail == 0) std::printf("solo_cache: all tests passed\n");