diff --git a/packages/core/src/async-mission-store-queries.ts b/packages/core/src/async-mission-store-queries.ts
index e499ced0c9..04fc109bdb 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/async-mission-store-queries.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/async-mission-store-queries.ts
@@ -2253,8 +2253,22 @@ export async function getTerminalTaskEvidence(
   third deferral of mine to dissolve on inspection, which is why the premise is now recorded next to
   the fix rather than in a note claiming it cannot be done.
   */
+  /*
+  FNXC:LifecycleColumnCensus 2026-07-31-11:30 (fleet phase — RECLASSIFICATION, not a conversion):
+  DELIBERATE-LITERAL — these two ids are the FALLBACK ARM of the three-state rule, not backlog.
+
+  `terminalColumns` undefined means the caller could not resolve lanes; the legacy id is then the only
+  answer that keeps this query working, exactly as it did before lanes existed. Converting them would
+  delete the fallback and make an unresolvable caller return nothing — the census counts the literal,
+  but the literal IS the design.
+
+  Marked rather than converted because every fleet pass re-derives this and leaves it, and an unmarked
+  correct site is indistinguishable from owed work in `byFile`. The marker moves it to
+  `deliberateByFile`, which is what the count should mean.
+  */
   const isComplete = (column: string) =>
     terminalColumns?.complete ? terminalColumns.complete.has(column) : column === "done";
+  /* DELIBERATE-LITERAL — same fallback arm as `isComplete` above; see the note there. */
   const isArchived = (column: string) =>
     terminalColumns?.archived ? terminalColumns.archived.has(column) : column === "archived";
 
diff --git a/scripts/lib/lifecycle-column-census-baseline.json b/scripts/lib/lifecycle-column-census-baseline.json
index 01a71ded05..247f84f264 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/lifecycle-column-census-baseline.json
+++ b/scripts/lib/lifecycle-column-census-baseline.json
@@ -4,9 +4,7 @@
     "packages/engine/src/self-healing.ts": 38,
     "packages/engine/src/notification/notification-service.ts": 5,
     "packages/engine/src/executor.ts": 4,
-    "packages/engine/src/restart-recovery-coordinator.ts": 4,
     "packages/core/src/agent-store.ts": 2,
-    "packages/core/src/async-mission-store-queries.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,
@@ -32,6 +30,7 @@
     "packages/engine/src/backlog-pressure-reporter.ts": 1,
     "packages/engine/src/ephemeral-worker-manager.ts": 1,
     "packages/engine/src/merger.ts": 1,
+    "packages/engine/src/restart-recovery-coordinator.ts": 1,
     "packages/engine/src/runtimes/in-process-runtime.ts": 1,
     "packages/engine/src/triage.ts": 1
   },
@@ -66,6 +65,8 @@
     "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/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,
     "packages/core/src/live-agent-count.ts\u0000done": 1,
     "packages/core/src/plugin-store.ts\u0000done": 1,