diff --git a/scripts/conformance/rubyspec/cmd/specdelta/main.go b/scripts/conformance/rubyspec/cmd/specdelta/main.go
index 45222648..106e14f9 100644
--- a/scripts/conformance/rubyspec/cmd/specdelta/main.go
+++ b/scripts/conformance/rubyspec/cmd/specdelta/main.go
@@ -168,13 +168,27 @@ func main1(args []string, out, errOut io.Writer) int {
 		return rows[i].file < rows[j].file
 	})
 
-	var totalA, totalB, moved, regressed, suspect int
+	var totalA, totalB, moved, regressed, suspect, appeared int
 	fmt.Fprintf(out, "%-56s %7s %7s %6s\n", "file", "control", "treat", "delta")
 	for _, r := range rows {
 		d := r.b.pass - r.a.pass
+		// ⛔ A file can get WORSE without its pass count moving. Three
+		// `core/binding/implicit_parameter*_spec.rb` files report
+		// `pass=0 fail=0 error=0` under one engine — every example behind a
+		// version guard — and 37 failures under the other, where the guard opens
+		// and the methods do not exist. Delta 0, invisible, and the measurement
+		// that missed them was used to size a plan.
+		//
+		// So the row is printed whenever EITHER the passes moved or the
+		// failures did.
+		badA, badB := r.a.fail+r.a.errs, r.b.fail+r.b.errs
+		worse := badB - badA
 		if d != 0 {
 			moved++
 		}
+		if d == 0 && worse > 0 {
+			appeared++
+		}
 		// ⛔ An unstable file is kept OUT of the verdict: its delta is noise, and
 		// counting it would make the exit status depend on a coin flip.
 		if d < 0 && !r.unstable {
@@ -200,6 +214,9 @@ func main1(args []string, out, errOut io.Writer) int {
 			note += "  ⛔ fewer detail lines than its own fail+error tally"
 			suspect++
 		}
+		if worse > 0 {
+			note += fmt.Sprintf("  ⛔ fail+error %d → %d", badA, badB)
+		}
 		if *quiet && d == 0 && note == "" {
 			continue
 		}
@@ -207,7 +224,13 @@ func main1(args []string, out, errOut io.Writer) int {
 	}
 	fmt.Fprintf(out, "\n%d file(s): control %d passing, treatment %d passing, %+d\n",
 		len(rows), totalA, totalB, totalB-totalA)
-	fmt.Fprintf(out, "%d file(s) moved, %d regressed\n", moved, regressed)
+	fmt.Fprintf(out, "%d file(s) moved, %d regressed", moved, regressed)
+	if appeared > 0 {
+		// Named separately because it is not a regression in the passing total
+		// and would otherwise read as nothing at all.
+		fmt.Fprintf(out, ", %d gained failures without losing passes", appeared)
+	}
+	fmt.Fprintln(out)
 	if suspect > 0 {
 		// A total built on a tally the subject contradicts is not a measurement.
 		fmt.Fprintf(errOut, "specdelta: %d file(s) reported a tally their detail lines contradict\n", suspect)
diff --git a/scripts/conformance/rubyspec/cmd/specdelta/main_test.go b/scripts/conformance/rubyspec/cmd/specdelta/main_test.go
index 5aefe3f7..4d42a6a9 100644
--- a/scripts/conformance/rubyspec/cmd/specdelta/main_test.go
+++ b/scripts/conformance/rubyspec/cmd/specdelta/main_test.go
@@ -333,6 +333,55 @@ fi
 	}
 }
 
+// ⛔ A file can get WORSE without its pass count moving, and the first version
+// of this tool could not see it.
+//
+// Three `core/binding/implicit_parameter*_spec.rb` files report
+// `pass=0 fail=0 error=0` at 3.4.1 — every example behind a `ruby_version_is
+// "4.0"` guard — and **37 failures** at 4.0.9, where the guard opens and the
+// three new Binding methods do not exist. Delta 0, absent from the report, and
+// the measurement that missed them was used to size a plan: "ten examples of
+// work" was short by those 37.
+func TestAFileThatGainsFailuresWithoutLosingPassesIsNamed(t *testing.T) {
+	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
+		t.Skip("the fake engines are POSIX shell scripts")
+	}
+	root := t.TempDir()
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(root, "core", "v"), 0o755); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(root, "core", "v", "d_spec.rb"), []byte("#\n"), 0o644); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	// Guarded out on the control: no examples at all, nothing to pass or fail.
+	guarded := fakeEngine(t, root, "guarded", "echo 'RBGO_RESULT pass=0 fail=0 error=0 skip=0'\n")
+	// The guard opens on the treatment and every example fails.
+	opened := fakeEngine(t, root, "opened", "echo 'RBGO_RESULT pass=0 fail=3 error=2 skip=0'\n"+
+		"printf 'RBGO_DETAIL\\tfail\\tX\\ta\\tb\\n%.0s' 1 2 3\n"+
+		"printf 'RBGO_DETAIL\\terror\\tY\\tc\\td\\n%.0s' 1 2\n")
+
+	var out, errOut bytes.Buffer
+	main1([]string{"-root", root, "-dir", "core/v", "-quiet", guarded, opened}, &out, &errOut)
+	if !strings.Contains(out.String(), "fail+error 0 → 5") {
+		t.Errorf("the new failures are not named:\n%s", out.String())
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(out.String(), "1 gained failures without losing passes") {
+		t.Errorf("the summary does not count it:\n%s", out.String())
+	}
+	// ⛔ And -quiet must NOT hide it: a delta of 0 was exactly how it hid before.
+	if !strings.Contains(out.String(), "d_spec.rb") {
+		t.Errorf("-quiet suppressed a file that got worse:\n%s", out.String())
+	}
+
+	// The control: a file that is quiet on both engines stays out of a -quiet
+	// report, or every unchanged file would be printed.
+	out.Reset()
+	main1([]string{"-root", root, "-dir", "core/v", "-quiet", guarded, guarded}, &out, &errOut)
+	if strings.Contains(out.String(), "d_spec.rb") {
+		t.Errorf("an unchanged file was printed under -quiet:\n%s", out.String())
+	}
+}
+
 func fakeEngine(t *testing.T, dir, name, body string) string {
 	t.Helper()
 	p := filepath.Join(dir, name)