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+import React from 'react';
+import { describe, it, expect, vi, afterEach } from 'vitest';
+import { render, cleanup, fireEvent } from '@testing-library/react';
+import StatsCardSkeleton from './StatsCardSkeleton';
+
+type BoundaryProps = {
+  children: React.ReactNode;
+  onError?: (error: Error, info: React.ErrorInfo) => void;
+  onReset?: () => void;
+};
+type BoundaryState = { hasError: boolean };
+
+class RecoveryBoundary extends React.Component<BoundaryProps, BoundaryState> {
+  state: BoundaryState = { hasError: false };
+
+  static getDerivedStateFromError(): BoundaryState {
+    return { hasError: true };
+  }
+
+  componentDidCatch(error: Error, info: React.ErrorInfo) {
+    this.props.onError?.(error, info);
+  }
+
+  reset = () => {
+    this.props.onReset?.();
+    this.setState({ hasError: false });
+  };
+
+  render() {
+    if (this.state.hasError) {
+      return (
+        <div data-testid="recovery-panel">
+          <StatsCardSkeleton />
+          <button data-testid="reset-button" onClick={this.reset}>
+            Reset
+          </button>
+        </div>
+      );
+    }
+    return this.props.children;
+  }
+}
+
+function ThrowingChild(): React.ReactElement {
+  throw new Error('Simulated database connectivity error');
+}
+
+// Creates a child whose failure is controlled from the OUTSIDE (via
+// stopThrowing), not from within its own render. This keeps it failing
+// consistently through React's internal render retries, and only clears
+// once the user explicitly resets.
+function createControllableThrowingChild() {
+  let shouldThrow = true;
+  const ControllableChild = (): React.ReactElement => {
+    if (shouldThrow) {
+      throw new Error('Simulated database connectivity error');
+    }
+    return <div data-testid="real-content">Stats loaded</div>;
+  };
+  return {
+    ControllableChild,
+    stopThrowing: () => {
+      shouldThrow = false;
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  cleanup();
+  vi.restoreAllMocks();
+});
+
+describe('StatsCardSkeleton - Error Resilience', () => {
+  it('renders a clean recovery UI with the skeleton instead of crashing when a nested child throws a runtime exception', () => {
+    vi.spyOn(console, 'error').mockImplementation(() => {});
+
+    const { getByTestId, container } = render(
+      <RecoveryBoundary>
+        <ThrowingChild />
+      </RecoveryBoundary>
+    );
+
+    expect(getByTestId('recovery-panel')).toBeDefined();
+    expect(container.querySelectorAll('.shimmer').length).toBe(16);
+  });
+
+  it('recovers with the skeleton fallback when a simulated database connectivity error occurs', () => {
+    vi.spyOn(console, 'error').mockImplementation(() => {});
+
+    function DbDependentChild(): React.ReactElement {
+      throw new Error('DB connection refused: ECONNREFUSED');
+    }
+
+    const { getByTestId } = render(
+      <RecoveryBoundary>
+        <DbDependentChild />
+      </RecoveryBoundary>
+    );
+
+    expect(getByTestId('recovery-panel')).toBeDefined();
+    expect(getByTestId('recovery-panel').querySelectorAll('.shimmer').length).toBe(16);
+  });
+
+  it('logs the caught exception to a dev-telemetry tracker while still rendering the skeleton fallback', () => {
+    vi.spyOn(console, 'error').mockImplementation(() => {});
+    const telemetryTracker = vi.fn();
+
+    const { getByTestId } = render(
+      <RecoveryBoundary onError={(error) => telemetryTracker(error.message)}>
+        <ThrowingChild />
+      </RecoveryBoundary>
+    );
+
+    expect(telemetryTracker).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(telemetryTracker).toHaveBeenCalledWith('Simulated database connectivity error');
+    expect(getByTestId('recovery-panel')).toBeDefined();
+  });
+
+  it('provides a working reset path on the recovery panel that clears the error state once the failure has passed', () => {
+    vi.spyOn(console, 'error').mockImplementation(() => {});
+    const { ControllableChild, stopThrowing } = createControllableThrowingChild();
+
+    const { getByTestId, queryByTestId } = render(
+      <RecoveryBoundary onReset={stopThrowing}>
+        <ControllableChild />
+      </RecoveryBoundary>
+    );
+
+    expect(getByTestId('recovery-panel')).toBeDefined();
+
+    fireEvent.click(getByTestId('reset-button'));
+
+    expect(queryByTestId('recovery-panel')).toBeNull();
+    expect(getByTestId('real-content')).toBeDefined();
+  });
+
+  it('remains stable and renders a consistent shimmer structure across repeated mount and unmount cycles', () => {
+    for (let i = 0; i < 5; i += 1) {
+      const { container, unmount } = render(<StatsCardSkeleton />);
+      expect(container.querySelectorAll('.shimmer').length).toBe(16);
+      unmount();
+    }
+  });
+});