diff --git a/plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/DependencyGraph.tsx b/plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/DependencyGraph.tsx
index 5b77ad424f..4b52beab39 100644
--- a/plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/DependencyGraph.tsx
+++ b/plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/DependencyGraph.tsx
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ export interface DependencyGraphProps {
   onDeleteTask?: (id: string, options?: { removeDependencyReferences?: boolean }) => Promise<Task>;
   onRetryTask?: (id: string) => Promise<Task>;
   onOpenDetailWithTab?: (task: Task, initialTab: "changes") => void;
-  taskStuckTimeoutMs?: number;
   onOpenMission?: (missionId: string) => void;
   onMoveTask?: (id: string, column: Task["column"], optionsOrPosition?: { preserveProgress?: boolean } | number) => Promise<Task>;
   lastFetchTimeMs?: number;
@@ -53,7 +52,6 @@ export function DependencyGraph({
   onDeleteTask,
   onRetryTask,
   onOpenDetailWithTab,
-  taskStuckTimeoutMs,
   onOpenMission,
   onMoveTask,
   lastFetchTimeMs,
@@ -500,7 +498,6 @@ export function DependencyGraph({
                     onDeleteTask={onDeleteTask}
                     onRetryTask={onRetryTask}
                     onOpenDetailWithTab={onOpenDetailWithTab}
-                    taskStuckTimeoutMs={taskStuckTimeoutMs}
                     onOpenMission={onOpenMission}
                     onMoveTask={onMoveTask}
                     lastFetchTimeMs={lastFetchTimeMs}
diff --git a/plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/GraphTaskNode.tsx b/plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/GraphTaskNode.tsx
index 123003d172..67b316c70c 100644
--- a/plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/GraphTaskNode.tsx
+++ b/plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/GraphTaskNode.tsx
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ import type { TraitFlags } from "@fusion/core";
 import type { GraphPosition } from "./types.js";
 import { useNodeDrag } from "./hooks/useNodeDrag.js";
 import { TaskCard } from "@fusion/dashboard/app/components/TaskCard";
-import { isTaskStuck } from "@fusion/dashboard/app/utils/taskStuck";
 import "./GraphTaskNode.css";
 import "./GraphHighlight.css";
 import "./styles/drag.css";
@@ -23,7 +22,6 @@ type TaskCardBridgeProps = Pick<
   | "onDeleteTask"
   | "onRetryTask"
   | "onOpenDetailWithTab"
-  | "taskStuckTimeoutMs"
   | "onOpenMission"
   | "onMoveTask"
   | "lastFetchTimeMs"
@@ -34,10 +32,8 @@ export interface GraphTaskNodeProps extends TaskCardBridgeProps, Pick<HTMLAttrib
   FNXC:WorkflowLifecycleColumns 2026-07-31-15:30:
   This card's OWN resolved column traits, threaded from the host's plugin view context.
 
-  Two defects close here, both from this component having no access to the board's vocabulary:
-    - `isTaskStuck` was called without its `columnFlags` argument, so `isWipColumnRole` fell back to
-      the literal and NO card in the graph was ever shown stuck on a renamed board — while the same
-      card showed stuck correctly on the main board. That asymmetry was the tell.
+  Defect closed here, from this component having no access to the board's vocabulary
+  (a second consumer, isTaskStuck, was deleted with the stuck-tag removal):
     - The `TaskCard` rendered below is a THIRD producer of unflagged cards, after the two #3025 fixed.
       It bypasses `renderTaskCard` entirely by importing the component directly, so a host-side fix
       could not reach it; every role helper inside it read the legacy ids.
@@ -83,10 +79,10 @@ export function GraphTaskNode({
   onNodeDragEnd,
   ...taskCardProps
 }: GraphTaskNodeProps) {
-  const { task, globalPaused, taskStuckTimeoutMs, lastFetchTimeMs, onOpenDetail } = taskCardProps;
+  const { task, globalPaused, onOpenDetail } = taskCardProps;
   const isFailed = task.status === "failed";
   const isPaused = task.paused === true;
-  const isStuck = isTaskStuck(task, taskStuckTimeoutMs, lastFetchTimeMs, taskColumnFlags);
+  // FNXC:StuckTagRemoval 2026-08-17-22:30: stuck-task tagging was removed from the dashboard; graph nodes no longer derive or suppress on a stuck state.
   /*
   FNXC:PluginLifecycleColumns 2026-07-30-03:40 (U11 #2515 audit):
   Keyed on `column === "triage"`, this went permanently FALSE for default-lineage
@@ -122,7 +118,6 @@ export function GraphTaskNode({
     !globalPaused &&
     !isFailed &&
     !isPaused &&
-    !isStuck &&
     !isAwaitingApproval &&
     hasExecutionSignal;
 
diff --git a/plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/__tests__/GraphTaskNode.drag.test.tsx b/plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/__tests__/GraphTaskNode.drag.test.tsx
index 7299324881..7908110ee7 100644
--- a/plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/__tests__/GraphTaskNode.drag.test.tsx
+++ b/plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/__tests__/GraphTaskNode.drag.test.tsx
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ function props(overrides: Partial<React.ComponentProps<typeof GraphTaskNode>> =
     onOpenDetailWithTab: vi.fn(),
     onMoveTask: vi.fn(),
     onOpenMission: vi.fn(),
-    taskStuckTimeoutMs: 1000,
     lastFetchTimeMs: Date.now(),
     workflowStepNameLookup: new Map<string, string>(),
     ...overrides,
diff --git a/plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/__tests__/GraphTaskNode.test.tsx b/plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/__tests__/GraphTaskNode.test.tsx
index 47a04bb50d..e1e1ac7780 100644
--- a/plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/__tests__/GraphTaskNode.test.tsx
+++ b/plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/__tests__/GraphTaskNode.test.tsx
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ function createProps(task: Task) {
     onOpenDetailWithTab: vi.fn(),
     onMoveTask: vi.fn(),
     onOpenMission: vi.fn(),
-    taskStuckTimeoutMs: 60_000,
     lastFetchTimeMs: Date.now(),
     workflowStepNameLookup: new Map<string, string>(),
   };
@@ -384,38 +383,8 @@ describe("GraphTaskNode", () => {
   });
 });
 
-/*
-FNXC:WorkflowLifecycleColumns 2026-07-31-15:30:
-THE INVARIANT: a stalled card in the board's OWN wip lane reads as stuck, not as healthily running.
-
-`isTaskStuck` was called without its `columnFlags` argument, so `isWipColumnRole` fell back to the
-literal `in-progress`. On a renamed board no graph card could ever be stuck — and because `isStuck`
-gates `isActive`, a wedged card rendered with the ACTIVE styling instead: the graph said "running"
-about a task that had not moved in hours, while the main board showed the same card as stuck.
-
-That asymmetry between two views of one task is the whole defect, and it is what this pins.
-
-Reverted (the 4th argument dropped, or the flags not threaded from the host context), the first case
-gets the `--active` class back and fails.
-*/
-describe("stuck detection on a renamed board", () => {
-  const STALE_MS = 120_000;
-
-  function stalledCard() {
-    return createTask({
-      column: "building",
-      status: "executing",
-      updatedAt: new Date(Date.now() - STALE_MS).toISOString(),
-    } as Partial<Task>);
-  }
-
-  it("treats a stalled card in a RENAMED wip lane as stuck, not active", () => {
-    const props = createProps(stalledCard());
-    render(<GraphTaskNode {...props} taskColumnFlags={{ countsTowardWip: true }} />);
-
-    expect(screen.getByTestId("graph-task-node-FN-TEST").className).not.toContain("graph-task-node--active");
-  });
-
+// FNXC:StuckTagRemoval 2026-08-17-22:30: stuck-task tagging removed from the dashboard; the stalled-card-as-stuck coverage went with it.
+describe("active styling", () => {
   it("still reads a legacy in-progress card as active when it is fresh", () => {
     const props = createProps(createTask({ column: "in-progress", status: "executing", updatedAt: new Date().toISOString() } as Partial<Task>));
     render(<GraphTaskNode {...props} />);
diff --git a/plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/__tests__/interactions.test.tsx b/plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/__tests__/interactions.test.tsx
index ec15f8a624..e1d898906b 100644
--- a/plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/__tests__/interactions.test.tsx
+++ b/plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/__tests__/interactions.test.tsx
@@ -157,7 +157,6 @@ describe("dependency graph interactions", () => {
         onOpenDetailWithTab={vi.fn()}
         onMoveTask={vi.fn()}
         onOpenMission={vi.fn()}
-        taskStuckTimeoutMs={1_000}
         lastFetchTimeMs={Date.now()}
         workflowStepNameLookup={new Map()}
       />,
diff --git a/plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/dashboard-interop.d.ts b/plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/dashboard-interop.d.ts
index ddcb29ee92..499100d807 100644
--- a/plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/dashboard-interop.d.ts
+++ b/plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/dashboard-interop.d.ts
@@ -1,21 +1,7 @@
-declare module "@fusion/dashboard/app/utils/taskStuck" {
-  import type { Task, TraitFlags } from "@fusion/core";
-
-  /* FNXC:WorkflowLifecycleColumns 2026-07-31-15:30: the 4th parameter existed upstream and this shim
-     did not declare it, so the plugin could not pass resolved traits even once it had them — and
-     `isWipColumnRole` fell back to the literal, meaning NO card in the graph was ever shown stuck on a
-     renamed board while the same card showed stuck correctly on the main board. */
-  export function isTaskStuck(
-    task: Task,
-    /* FNXC:PluginInteropDrift 2026-07-31-07:50: positionally REQUIRED in the real signature
-       (`number | undefined`), not optional — a mirror that is merely approximate is the drift this
-       file already caused once. Found by check-plugin-interop-drift. */
-    taskStuckTimeoutMs: number | undefined,
-    lastFetchTimeMs?: number,
-    columnFlags?: Partial<TraitFlags>,
-  ): boolean;
-}
-
+/*
+FNXC:StuckTagRemoval 2026-08-17-22:30:
+The taskStuck shim was deleted with the dashboard's stuck-task tagging; the host module no longer exists.
+*/
 declare module "@fusion/dashboard/app/plugins/types" {
   import type { ReactNode } from "react";
   import type { Task, TaskDetail, TraitFlags, WorkflowStep } from "@fusion/core";
@@ -57,7 +43,6 @@ declare module "@fusion/dashboard/app/components/TaskCard" {
     onDeleteTask?: (id: string, options?: { removeDependencyReferences?: boolean }) => Promise<Task>;
     onRetryTask?: (id: string) => Promise<Task>;
     onOpenDetailWithTab?: (task: Task | TaskDetail, initialTab: "changes") => void;
-    taskStuckTimeoutMs?: number;
     onOpenMission?: (missionId: string) => void;
     onMoveTask?: (id: string, column: Column, optionsOrPosition?: { preserveProgress?: boolean } | number) => Promise<Task>;
     lastFetchTimeMs?: number;