diff --git a/tests/clustering/test_connected_components.py b/tests/clustering/test_connected_components.py
index 8f65e67c..38559c40 100644
--- a/tests/clustering/test_connected_components.py
+++ b/tests/clustering/test_connected_components.py
@@ -414,6 +414,57 @@ def test_cluster_observations_medium_alone_does_not_fuse():
     assert labels["a"] != labels["b"]
 
 
+def test_slow_burn_passes_with_production_clusterer():
+    """Fixture 7 (slow_burn): one campaign across 3 multi-week operational
+    windows. Shared JA3 + HASSH + C2 across all 3 actors. The production
+    clusterer must fold them into one cluster — *despite* the multi-week
+    silence between windows. Time-agnostic invariant in action."""
+    from tests.clustering.fixture_harness import assert_fixture_bounds
+    from tests.factories.campaign_factory import generate, load_yaml
+
+    corpus = generate(load_yaml(FIXTURE_DIR / "slow_burn.yaml"), seed=0)
+    metrics = assert_fixture_bounds(
+        corpus, _production_clusterer_predict,
+        FIXTURE_DIR / "slow_burn.expected.yaml",
+    )
+    pred = _production_clusterer_predict(corpus)
+    # All three operational windows in one cluster — the F7 contract.
+    assert len(set(pred.values())) == 1
+    assert metrics["completeness"] == pytest.approx(1.0)
+
+
+def test_slow_burn_time_shift_invariance():
+    """Time-agnostic invariant in execution: shifting every observation's
+    session timestamps by an arbitrary delta must not change the
+    predicted clusters. This is the runtime counterpart of the
+    Observation-no-time-fields static check in test_similarity.py."""
+    from datetime import timedelta
+    from tests.factories.campaign_factory import generate, load_yaml
+
+    corpus = generate(load_yaml(FIXTURE_DIR / "slow_burn.yaml"), seed=0)
+    baseline = _production_clusterer_predict(corpus)
+
+    # Shift every session by +90 days (a full multi-month gap) and
+    # re-cluster. Predicted membership must be identical.
+    for att in corpus.attackers:
+        att.first_seen += timedelta(days=90)
+        att.last_seen += timedelta(days=90)
+        for s in att.sessions:
+            s.started_at += timedelta(days=90)
+
+    shifted = _production_clusterer_predict(corpus)
+    # Cluster ids may differ as opaque labels but membership groupings
+    # must match. Convert each prediction to canonical form: a set of
+    # frozensets of co-clustered observation_ids.
+    def _canonical(pred: dict[str, str]) -> set[frozenset[str]]:
+        groups: dict[str, set[str]] = {}
+        for oid, cid in pred.items():
+            groups.setdefault(cid, set()).add(oid)
+        return {frozenset(g) for g in groups.values()}
+
+    assert _canonical(baseline) == _canonical(shifted)
+
+
 def test_vpn_hopping_passes_at_identity_level_with_production_clusterer():
     """Fixture 2: one rotating actor with stable JA3 + HASSH across
     5 ASNs. The production clusterer must fold all 5 observations into