diff --git a/tests/test_live_gui_workspace_fixture.py b/tests/test_live_gui_workspace_fixture.py
index 4d8a0b92..2f65ac18 100644
--- a/tests/test_live_gui_workspace_fixture.py
+++ b/tests/test_live_gui_workspace_fixture.py
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 """Tests for the live_gui_workspace fixture (Phase 3, Task 3.2)."""
+import importlib.util
+import shutil
 from pathlib import Path
 
 
@@ -29,3 +31,34 @@ def test_live_gui_workspace_writable(live_gui_workspace) -> None:
  test_file = live_gui_workspace / "test_write.txt"
  test_file.write_text("hello", encoding="utf-8")
  assert test_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8") == "hello"
+
+
+def test_live_gui_workspace_recreates_missing_workspace(live_gui) -> None:
+ """[TDD red] Captures the xdist race in live_gui_workspace: when the owner
+ worker's live_gui teardown rmtree's the shared workspace between client
+ workers' tests, a client worker calling live_gui_workspace must recreate
+ the directory before returning the path. The current fixture returns the
+ path without mkdir, so the returned path does not exist after rmtree.
+ NOTE: on Windows, the live_gui subprocess holds the live workspace as its
+ CWD, which blocks shutil.rmtree on the live path. We instead point the
+ handle at a fresh, never-existed path under tests/artifacts/ to simulate
+ the post-teardown state deterministically on all platforms.
+ """
+ import time
+ fake_workspace = Path(f"tests/artifacts/_live_gui_workspace_race_sim_{int(time.time() * 1000000)}")
+ assert not fake_workspace.exists(), f"sanity: fake workspace must not exist pre-call: {fake_workspace}"
+ original_workspace = live_gui._workspace
+ live_gui._workspace = fake_workspace
+ try:
+  spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location(
+   "tests.conftest",
+   str(Path(__file__).parent / "conftest.py"),
+  )
+  conftest = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
+  spec.loader.exec_module(conftest)
+  result = conftest.live_gui_workspace.__wrapped__(live_gui)
+  assert result.exists(), f"live_gui_workspace did not recreate missing workspace at {result}"
+ finally:
+  live_gui._workspace = original_workspace
+  if fake_workspace.exists():
+   shutil.rmtree(fake_workspace, ignore_errors=True)