diff --git a/db/migrations/id_columns_guard_test.go b/db/migrations/id_columns_guard_test.go
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+package migrations
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"database/sql"
+	"os"
+	"strings"
+
+	_ "github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3"
+	"github.com/pressly/goose/v3"
+
+	. "github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2"
+	. "github.com/onsi/gomega"
+)
+
+// Version of the uniform-canonical-ids migration whose idColumns list this guard protects.
+const idColumnsMigrationVersion = 20260720015443
+
+var _ = Describe("idColumns inventory", func() {
+	It("covers every id-bearing column present at the migration version", func() {
+		ctx := context.Background()
+		db, err := sql.Open("sqlite3", "file::memory:")
+		Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
+		db.SetMaxOpenConns(1) // non-shared :memory: — a second conn would be an empty DB
+		DeferCleanup(func() { _ = db.Close() })
+		_, err = db.ExecContext(ctx, "PRAGMA foreign_keys=off")
+		Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
+
+		goose.SetBaseFS(os.DirFS("."))
+		DeferCleanup(func() { goose.SetBaseFS(nil) })
+		Expect(goose.SetDialect("sqlite3")).To(Succeed())
+		Expect(goose.UpToContext(ctx, db, ".", idColumnsMigrationVersion)).To(Succeed())
+
+		covered := map[string]bool{}
+		for _, tc := range idColumns {
+			covered[tc.table+"."+tc.col] = true
+		}
+		// Columns that are id-named but intentionally not Navidrome canonical ids.
+		exempt := map[string]string{
+			"share.id":    "public share URLs, generated separately",
+			"property.id": "property key, not an entity id",
+			"plugin.id":   "plugin name, not an entity id",
+		}
+
+		tables, err := queryColumn(ctx, db, "SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table'")
+		Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
+
+		var dangling []string
+		for _, table := range tables {
+			if strings.HasPrefix(table, "sqlite_") || table == "goose_db_version" || strings.Contains(table, "_fts") {
+				continue
+			}
+			rows, err := db.QueryContext(ctx, "SELECT name, type FROM pragma_table_info(?)", table)
+			Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
+			for rows.Next() {
+				var name, typ string
+				Expect(rows.Scan(&name, &typ)).To(Succeed())
+				lname := strings.ToLower(name)
+				if lname != "id" && lname != "pid" && !strings.HasSuffix(lname, "_id") {
+					continue
+				}
+				utyp := strings.ToUpper(typ)
+				if !strings.Contains(utyp, "TEXT") && !strings.Contains(utyp, "CHAR") {
+					continue // INTEGER ids (rowid PKs, library.id) are not canonical ids
+				}
+				if strings.HasPrefix(lname, "mbz_") {
+					continue // MusicBrainz UUIDs, not Navidrome ids
+				}
+				key := table + "." + name
+				if covered[key] || exempt[key] != "" {
+					continue
+				}
+				dangling = append(dangling, key)
+			}
+			Expect(rows.Err()).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
+			Expect(rows.Close()).To(Succeed())
+		}
+		Expect(dangling).To(BeEmpty(),
+			"id-bearing columns missing from idColumns; add them to the migration or exempt with a reason: %v", dangling)
+	})
+})
+
+func queryColumn(ctx context.Context, db *sql.DB, query string) ([]string, error) {
+	rows, err := db.QueryContext(ctx, query)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer rows.Close()
+	var out []string
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var s string
+		if err := rows.Scan(&s); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		out = append(out, s)
+	}
+	return out, rows.Err()
+}