diff --git a/packages/core/src/agent-store.ts b/packages/core/src/agent-store.ts
index 71470ed796..b2b6c8fc0e 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/agent-store.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/agent-store.ts
@@ -226,6 +226,9 @@ export function formatCurrentTaskLine(taskId: string, linkedTask: Pick<Task, "co
   }
   /*
   FNXC:WorkflowResolvedColumns 2026-07-31-08:10 (fleet phase — FLAGGED AND LEFT COUNTED):
+  DELIBERATE-LITERAL — marked so it is no longer merely flagged. The note below already decided this
+  stays; it said so in prose, which the census cannot read, so the site kept reading as backlog and
+  every later pass re-derived the same answer. The marker moves it to `deliberateByFile`.
   A pure formatter over `Pick<Task, "column">` — no store, no task id, and its output PRINTS the column
   name for a human reader. Same class as `github-tracking-comments.ts:165` and
   `in-process-runtime`'s duration helpers: threading a resolution into a string builder to pick a word is
diff --git a/scripts/lib/lifecycle-column-census-baseline.json b/scripts/lib/lifecycle-column-census-baseline.json
index 247f84f264..8a883195ad 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/lifecycle-column-census-baseline.json
+++ b/scripts/lib/lifecycle-column-census-baseline.json
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
     "packages/engine/src/self-healing.ts": 38,
     "packages/engine/src/notification/notification-service.ts": 5,
     "packages/engine/src/executor.ts": 4,
-    "packages/core/src/agent-store.ts": 2,
     "packages/core/src/task-store/moves.ts": 2,
     "packages/core/src/task-store/project-store-ops.ts": 2,
     "packages/core/src/task-store/reads.ts": 2,
@@ -65,6 +64,8 @@
     "packages/cli/src/commands/task.ts\u0000done": 1,
     "packages/cli/src/extension.ts\u0000archived": 1,
     "packages/cli/src/extension.ts\u0000done": 1,
+    "packages/core/src/agent-store.ts\u0000archived": 1,
+    "packages/core/src/agent-store.ts\u0000done": 1,
     "packages/core/src/async-mission-store-queries.ts\u0000archived": 1,
     "packages/core/src/async-mission-store-queries.ts\u0000done": 1,
     "packages/core/src/live-agent-count.ts\u0000archived": 1,