diff --git a/test/test_flan.ml b/test/test_flan.ml
index a6c7b8d..a147e76 100644
--- a/test/test_flan.ml
+++ b/test/test_flan.ml
@@ -1378,6 +1378,105 @@ let () =
   check "nor is the other half of the collision"
     (not (List.exists (fun l -> contains l "\"spin2d\"") produced));
 
+  (* ── The config beside the header (Cimport.read_config) ────────── *)
+
+  (* Why there is a config at all: the generated declarations are committed, so
+     a hand-edit to them is destroyed by the next regeneration and the edit has
+     to live somewhere regeneration reads instead. These are the two things it
+     can say. *)
+  let with_config config =
+    let taken = Hashtbl.create 16 in
+    List.iter
+      (fun d ->
+         match Ast.declared_name d with
+         | Some n -> Hashtbl.replace taken n ()
+         | None -> ())
+      fixture_ds;
+    let known_structs =
+      List.filter_map
+        (fun (d : Ast.decl) ->
+           match d.Ast.d with Ast.Defstruct (n, _) -> Some n | _ -> None)
+        fixture_ds
+    and known_enums =
+      List.filter_map
+        (fun (d : Ast.decl) ->
+           match d.Ast.d with Ast.Defenum (n, _) -> Some n | _ -> None)
+        fixture_ds
+    in
+    let i, _, _ =
+      Cimport.header ~loc:Loc.unknown ~header:"headers/sample.h" ~flags:[]
+        ~known_structs ~known_enums ~taken ~bound_syms:[] ~config
+    in
+    (List.map Cimport.decl_source i.Cimport.decls, i.Cimport.hidden)
+  in
+
+  let lines, hidden =
+    with_config { Cimport.excludes = [ "set_seed" ]; renames = [] }
+  in
+  check "an excluded symbol is not generated"
+    (not (List.exists (fun l -> contains l "\"set_seed\"") lines));
+  (* Not silently absent. "there is no such binding" and "the package decided
+     against this binding" are different answers and a reader gets the second,
+     which is what [hidden] is for. *)
+  check "and it says it was excluded rather than going quiet"
+    (List.exists
+       (fun (n, why) -> n = "set-seed" && contains why "excluded by the package")
+       hidden);
+
+  let lines, _ =
+    with_config { Cimport.excludes = [ "add_*" ]; renames = [] }
+  in
+  check "an exclude pattern matches by prefix"
+    (not (List.exists (fun l -> contains l "\"add_ints\"") lines));
+  check "and leaves everything it does not match"
+    (List.exists (fun l -> contains l "\"set_seed\"") lines);
+
+  let lines, _ =
+    with_config
+      { Cimport.excludes = []; renames = [ ("set_seed", "seed!") ] }
+  in
+  (* The C symbol is kept verbatim, so an override changes the Flan face and
+     nothing else — which is what makes it safe to spell a predicate the way
+     Lisp spells one. *)
+  check "a name override is the Flan name, and the C symbol is untouched"
+    (List.mem "(declare-c seed! [seed u32] \"set_seed\")" lines);
+
+  (* The collision above is refused because neither Spin2D nor spin2d may take
+     [spin-2d] by an accident of header order. Naming one of them is the way
+     out, and it is the reason the kebab rule is consulted in exactly one
+     place: the groups are computed on the name a function will really take,
+     so the rename dissolves the group rather than leaving both refused. *)
+  let lines, hidden =
+    with_config
+      { Cimport.excludes = []; renames = [ ("Spin2D", "spin-2d-upper") ] }
+  in
+  check "a rename resolves a collision for both halves"
+    (List.exists (fun l -> contains l "\"Spin2D\"") lines
+     && List.exists (fun l -> contains l "\"spin2d\"") lines);
+  check "and the collision is no longer refused"
+    (not (List.mem_assoc "spin-2d" hidden));
+
+  (* The file, since a typo in it would otherwise show up as a binding under
+     the wrong name. A line that is neither directive is an error rather than a
+     line quietly skipped. *)
+  let config_file text =
+    let f = Filename.temp_file "flan-bindings" "" in
+    let ch = open_out f in
+    output_string ch text;
+    close_out ch;
+    f
+  in
+  let c = Cimport.read_config (config_file "# a comment\n\nexclude Mem*\nname IsWindowReady window-ready?\n") in
+  check "read_config reads an exclude" (c.Cimport.excludes = [ "Mem*" ]);
+  check "read_config reads a name override"
+    (c.Cimport.renames = [ ("IsWindowReady", "window-ready?") ]);
+  check "a missing config is no exclusions and no overrides"
+    (Cimport.read_config "no-such-bindings-file" = Cimport.no_config);
+  check "a line that is neither directive is refused"
+    (match Cimport.read_config (config_file "rename Foo bar\n") with
+     | _ -> false
+     | exception Loc.Error (_, m) -> contains m "and this is neither");
+
   (* A refused name is a name that exists and cannot be had — Zig's failDecl,
      which Load.refuse_hidden already implements for main. Nothing may be in
      both lists, or asking for a name that works would report that it does