diff --git a/polymarket-bot/test-sync-failure.yaml b/polymarket-bot/test-sync-failure.yaml
new file mode 100644
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+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: test-sync-failure
+  namespace: polymarket-bot
+data:
+  broken:
+    nested: value