diff --git a/Tests/PlayMode/SnapshotParticipantEventsTests.cs b/Tests/PlayMode/SnapshotParticipantEventsTests.cs
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+using System.Collections;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using LiveKit.PlayModeTests.Utils;
+using NUnit.Framework;
+using UnityEngine.TestTools;
+
+namespace LiveKit.PlayModeTests
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Reproduces the "agent dispatched at connect time" report: a remote
+    /// participant that is already in the room when the local participant
+    /// connects arrives in the connect snapshot instead of as a
+    /// ParticipantConnected delta — and the SDK never raises
+    /// ParticipantConnected for it, even for handlers wired before Connect().
+    /// Apps that drive their "remote participant joined → subscribe/render"
+    /// logic purely from that event never learn the participant exists,
+    /// although it is present in Room.RemoteParticipants.
+    ///
+    /// Whether a concurrently connecting participant (typically an agent)
+    /// lands in the snapshot or in the event stream is a server-side race, so
+    /// in the field this manifests intermittently. The test makes the losing
+    /// side deterministic by fully connecting the "agent" first.
+    /// </summary>
+    public class SnapshotParticipantEventsTests
+    {
+        const float ControlEventTimeoutSeconds = 15f;
+
+        static (TestRoomContext.ConnectionOptions agent,
+                TestRoomContext.ConnectionOptions subscriber,
+                TestRoomContext.ConnectionOptions lateJoiner) ThreePeers()
+        {
+            var agent = TestRoomContext.ConnectionOptions.Default;
+            agent.Identity = "snapshot-agent";
+            var subscriber = TestRoomContext.ConnectionOptions.Default;
+            subscriber.Identity = "snapshot-subscriber";
+            var lateJoiner = TestRoomContext.ConnectionOptions.Default;
+            lateJoiner.Identity = "snapshot-late-joiner";
+            return (agent, subscriber, lateJoiner);
+        }
+
+        [UnityTest, Category("E2E")]
+        public IEnumerator Connect_RaisesParticipantConnected_ForParticipantAlreadyInRoom()
+        {
+            var (agentOptions, subscriberOptions, lateJoinerOptions) = ThreePeers();
+            using var context = new TestRoomContext(new[] { agentOptions, subscriberOptions, lateJoinerOptions });
+
+            // 1. The "agent" is fully connected before the subscriber starts
+            //    connecting, guaranteeing it is part of the subscriber's
+            //    connect snapshot rather than a ParticipantConnected delta.
+            yield return context.ConnectRoom(0);
+            Assert.IsNull(context.ConnectionError, context.ConnectionError);
+
+            var agentIdentity = context.Rooms[0].LocalParticipant.Identity;
+            var lateJoinerIdentity = lateJoinerOptions.Identity;
+            var subscriberRoom = context.Rooms[1];
+
+            // 2. Wire ParticipantConnected BEFORE Connect() — the earliest
+            //    possible subscription an app can make.
+            var connectedIdentities = new List<string>();
+            subscriberRoom.ParticipantConnected += participant =>
+            {
+                lock (connectedIdentities) connectedIdentities.Add(participant.Identity);
+            };
+
+            // 3. Subscriber joins; the agent is already in the room.
+            yield return context.ConnectRoom(1);
+            Assert.IsNull(context.ConnectionError, context.ConnectionError);
+
+            // 4. Control: a participant joining AFTER the subscriber must fire
+            //    ParticipantConnected via the regular delta path. Room events
+            //    are delivered in order, so once the control event has fired,
+            //    any event for the agent would already have been dispatched.
+            //    This keeps the failing case fast and proves the handler
+            //    wiring works.
+            yield return context.ConnectRoom(2);
+            Assert.IsNull(context.ConnectionError, context.ConnectionError);
+
+            var controlEvent = new Expectation(
+                predicate: () =>
+                {
+                    lock (connectedIdentities) return connectedIdentities.Contains(lateJoinerIdentity);
+                },
+                timeoutSeconds: ControlEventTimeoutSeconds);
+            yield return controlEvent.Wait();
+            Assert.IsNull(controlEvent.Error,
+                $"Control failed: ParticipantConnected never fired for the late joiner " +
+                $"'{lateJoinerIdentity}' — event delivery is broken beyond the snapshot case. " +
+                $"Received: [{string.Join(", ", connectedIdentities)}]");
+
+            // 5. The snapshot data itself must have arrived: the agent is
+            //    visible in RemoteParticipants. This isolates the defect to
+            //    event emission, not data delivery.
+            Assert.IsTrue(subscriberRoom.RemoteParticipants.ContainsKey(agentIdentity),
+                $"Agent '{agentIdentity}' missing from RemoteParticipants — snapshot itself was lost");
+
+            // 6. The repro assertion: ParticipantConnected must also fire for
+            //    the participant that was already in the room at connect time.
+            bool agentConnectedFired;
+            lock (connectedIdentities) agentConnectedFired = connectedIdentities.Contains(agentIdentity);
+            Assert.IsTrue(agentConnectedFired,
+                $"ParticipantConnected never fired for '{agentIdentity}', which was already in the " +
+                $"room when the subscriber connected (snapshot participant). It IS present in " +
+                $"RemoteParticipants, so only the event is missing. " +
+                $"Received: [{string.Join(", ", connectedIdentities)}]");
+        }
+    }
+}
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