diff --git a/test/labels-reconcile.test.sh b/test/labels-reconcile.test.sh
index 6ac2269..4874afb 100755
--- a/test/labels-reconcile.test.sh
+++ b/test/labels-reconcile.test.sh
@@ -883,7 +883,6 @@ expect "attention diagnosis caused no PR mutation" "$attention_mutations_before"
 # -- the sweep wiring observes the existing per-PR skip without writing -------
 blind_main_probe() {
   (
-    GITHUB_EVENT_NAME=schedule
     REPO=owner/repo
     LABELS_CONF=.github/labels.conf
     # This probe IS a GitHub board — say so at the forge boundary rather
@@ -942,7 +941,6 @@ expect "exactly the blind PRs match the counted shape whole-line — no more, no
 #    shape, where the probes could not reach the per-PR path at all.
 unrequested_main_probe() { # $1 = read | denied, the head-commit read's outcome
   (
-    GITHUB_EVENT_NAME=schedule
     REPO=owner/repo
     LABELS_CONF=.github/labels.conf
     # main() preflights the forge before it reads anything, so a probe that
@@ -1478,7 +1476,6 @@ expect "...and a malformed panel= line in that same file is refused, not passed"
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 write_fail_probe() { # $1 = ok | fail — whether the label edit write succeeds
   (
-    GITHUB_EVENT_NAME=schedule
     REPO=owner/repo
     LABELS_CONF=.github/labels.conf
     CEREMONY_FORGE=github