diff --git a/source/lmp/tests/test_lammps_spin_dpa3_pt2.py b/source/lmp/tests/test_lammps_spin_dpa3_pt2.py
index 5429fbb516..55b1e2fe1d 100644
--- a/source/lmp/tests/test_lammps_spin_dpa3_pt2.py
+++ b/source/lmp/tests/test_lammps_spin_dpa3_pt2.py
@@ -249,6 +249,13 @@ def test_pair_deepmd_mpi_dpa3_spin() -> None:
     )
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skip(
+    reason=(
+        "TODO: unskip after adding an empty-local-atom fast path for "
+        "the spin DPA3 with-comm AOTI artifact. The current artifact can "
+        "hit a divide-by-zero/SIGFPE when a rank has nloc_real == 0."
+    )
+)
 @pytest.mark.skipif(
     shutil.which("mpirun") is None, reason="MPI is not installed on this system"
 )