diff --git a/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/MilestoneSliceInterviewModal.test.tsx b/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/MilestoneSliceInterviewModal.test.tsx
index 48b7d88419..df31e44b50 100644
--- a/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/MilestoneSliceInterviewModal.test.tsx
+++ b/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/MilestoneSliceInterviewModal.test.tsx
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ describe("MilestoneSliceInterviewModal", () => {
         targetTitle="Milestone 1"
       />,
     );
-    const modal = container.querySelector(".planning-modal");
+    const modal = document.querySelector(".planning-modal");
 
     expect(mockUseMobileKeyboard).toHaveBeenCalledWith({ enabled: true });
     expect(modal?.getAttribute("style")).toContain("--keyboard-overlap: 250px");
diff --git a/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/TaskDetailModal.pr-tab.test.tsx b/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/TaskDetailModal.pr-tab.test.tsx
index 08fb9a2621..b54e6cb200 100644
--- a/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/TaskDetailModal.pr-tab.test.tsx
+++ b/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/TaskDetailModal.pr-tab.test.tsx
@@ -72,11 +72,11 @@ describe("TaskDetailModal Pull Request tab", () => {
     );
 
     expect(screen.queryByTestId("pr-panel-stub")).toBeNull();
-    expect(container.querySelector(".detail-in-review-stall")).toBeNull();
+    expect(document.querySelector(".detail-in-review-stall")).toBeNull();
 
     fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Pull Request" }));
 
     expect(screen.getByTestId("pr-panel-stub")).toBeInTheDocument();
-    expect(container.querySelector(".detail-in-review-stall")).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(document.querySelector(".detail-in-review-stall")).toBeTruthy();
   });
 });
diff --git a/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/TaskDetailModal.worktree-terminal.test.tsx b/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/TaskDetailModal.worktree-terminal.test.tsx
index 7a480d0048..f44295d1f0 100644
--- a/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/TaskDetailModal.worktree-terminal.test.tsx
+++ b/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/TaskDetailModal.worktree-terminal.test.tsx
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ describe("TaskDetailModal worktree terminal tab", () => {
     const { container } = renderDetail();
 
     await screen.findByRole("button", { name: "Terminal" });
-    const tabLabels = Array.from(container.querySelectorAll<HTMLButtonElement>(".detail-tabs .detail-tab"))
+    const tabLabels = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll<HTMLButtonElement>(".detail-tabs .detail-tab"))
       .map((tab) => tab.textContent?.trim());
 
     expect(tabLabels.indexOf("Comments")).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0);
diff --git a/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/onboarding-flow.test.tsx b/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/onboarding-flow.test.tsx
index 78ae6e202b..c4ec710fa2 100644
--- a/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/onboarding-flow.test.tsx
+++ b/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/onboarding-flow.test.tsx
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ describe("onboarding flow integration", () => {
         ],
       });
 
-      const { container } = renderModal();
+      renderModal();
 
       await waitFor(() => {
         expect(screen.getByTestId("onboarding-apikey-input-anthropic-api-key")).toBeInTheDocument();
@@ -530,7 +530,14 @@ describe("onboarding flow integration", () => {
 
       const subscriptionCard = screen.getByTestId("onboarding-provider-card-anthropic-subscription");
       const anthropicCard = screen.getByTestId("onboarding-provider-card-anthropic-api-key");
-      const renderedAnthropicAuthCards = container.querySelectorAll(
+      /*
+      FNXC:OnboardingTests 2026-07-30-15:10:
+      `document`, not `render()`'s `container` — the onboarding modal mounts through a portal, so
+      `container` is empty and this counted 0 cards while the `screen.getByTestId` calls two lines
+      up found both. That split is what made this failure read as an onboarding-provider bug rather
+      than a query-root bug.
+      */
+      const renderedAnthropicAuthCards = document.querySelectorAll(
         '[data-testid^="onboarding-provider-card-anthropic"]',
       );
       expect(renderedAnthropicAuthCards).toHaveLength(2);
diff --git a/scripts/lib/fnxc-future-dates-baseline.json b/scripts/lib/fnxc-future-dates-baseline.json
index 30a47562a5..5e6619d52b 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/fnxc-future-dates-baseline.json
+++ b/scripts/lib/fnxc-future-dates-baseline.json
@@ -180,7 +180,6 @@
   "packages/engine/src/__tests__/review-handoff-lane.test.ts": 1,
   "packages/engine/src/__tests__/scheduler-fanout-escalation-lanes.test.ts": 2,
   "packages/engine/src/__tests__/scheduler-load-lane-union.test.ts": 2,
-  "packages/engine/src/__tests__/scheduler-paused-dispatch-refusal.test.ts": 3,
   "packages/engine/src/__tests__/self-blocked-dependency-deadlock.pg.test.ts": 1,
   "packages/engine/src/__tests__/self-healing-db-corruption.test.ts": 1,
   "packages/engine/src/__tests__/stale-task-reporter.test.ts": 1,