diff --git a/cockpit/render/shared/render-examples-display-coercion.spec.ts b/cockpit/render/shared/render-examples-display-coercion.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..91459b8f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cockpit/render/shared/render-examples-display-coercion.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+//
+// Fitness guard for the value-coercion bug class (PR #771 numeric $state
+// bindings dropped, PR #773 "[object Object]" flash for unresolved bindings).
+//
+// The demo view components in every render/* example bind element props
+// (`content`, `value`) that resolve — via $state/$fn — to non-string values
+// (numbers, or, mid-stream, unresolved objects). Displaying those raw either
+// dropped the value (string-only coercion) or rendered "[object Object]".
+// The fix routes them through the shared `toDisplayText` helper.
+//
+// This test statically asserts that invariant across ALL render example demo
+// components so a new or edited example can't silently reintroduce the bug —
+// it runs in the plain node vitest env (no Angular/browser needed), unlike the
+// render examples themselves which have no e2e coverage (aimock N/A: no LLM).
+import { readdirSync, readFileSync, existsSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { dirname, resolve } from 'node:path';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+
+const RENDER_DIR = resolve(dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), '..');
+
+function exampleComponentFiles(): string[] {
+  const files: string[] = [];
+  for (const entry of readdirSync(RENDER_DIR, { withFileTypes: true })) {
+    if (!entry.isDirectory() || entry.name === 'shared') continue;
+    const appDir = resolve(RENDER_DIR, entry.name, 'angular/src/app');
+    if (!existsSync(appDir)) continue;
+    for (const f of readdirSync(appDir)) {
+      if (f.endsWith('.component.ts')) files.push(resolve(appDir, f));
+    }
+  }
+  return files;
+}
+
+describe('render example demo components route displayed props through toDisplayText', () => {
+  const files = exampleComponentFiles();
+
+  it('discovers the render example component files', () => {
+    // Guards the guard: if the glob breaks, the assertions below vacuously pass.
+    expect(files.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(6);
+  });
+
+  for (const file of files) {
+    const rel = file.slice(file.indexOf('cockpit/'));
+    const src = readFileSync(file, 'utf8');
+
+    it(`${rel}: never raw-interpolates content()/value() in a template`, () => {
+      // Anti-pattern: `{{ content() }}` / `{{ value() }}` — must go through a
+      // display*() computed backed by toDisplayText. `{{ displayContent() }}`
+      // does NOT match (capital C after "display").
+      const raw = src.match(/\{\{\s*(?:content|value)\(\)\s*\}\}/g);
+      expect(raw, `raw prop interpolation found: ${raw?.join(', ')}`).toBeNull();
+    });
+
+    it(`${rel}: imports toDisplayText (used for content/value coercion)`, () => {
+      expect(src).toContain('toDisplayText');
+    });
+  }
+});
diff --git a/cockpit/render/shared/to-display-text.spec.ts b/cockpit/render/shared/to-display-text.spec.ts
index 089642890..14bcdbd09 100644
--- a/cockpit/render/shared/to-display-text.spec.ts
+++ b/cockpit/render/shared/to-display-text.spec.ts
@@ -30,4 +30,15 @@ describe('toDisplayText', () => {
     expect(toDisplayText({ a: 1 })).toBe('');
     expect(toDisplayText([1, 2])).toBe('');
   });
+
+  it('never leaks "[object Object]" for any object-ish value (the headline bug)', () => {
+    for (const v of [{ a: 1 }, [1, 2], new Date(), () => 0, { toString: () => 'x' }]) {
+      expect(toDisplayText(v)).not.toContain('[object');
+      expect(toDisplayText(v)).toBe('');
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('stringifies bigint', () => {
+    expect(toDisplayText(10n)).toBe('10');
+  });
 });