diff --git a/src/renderer/src/lib/agent-launch-route-connection-fallback.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/lib/agent-launch-route-connection-fallback.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..208445bf11c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/renderer/src/lib/agent-launch-route-connection-fallback.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import { buildAgentLaunchRouteInput, type AgentLaunchRouteStore } from './agent-launch-route-input'
+import { getConnectionIdFromState } from './connection-owner-resolution'
+import { planAgentSessionLaunch } from './agent-session-launch-plan'
+
+// Deliberately un-mocked: the defect this pins lives in the owner resolution itself, so a suite
+// that stages `getConnectionIdFromState` cannot catch it. Grok is the agent the answer routes on —
+// only agents whose hook discloses no transcript path read the local-readability input at all.
+const NATIVE_CHAT_SETTINGS = { experimentalNativeChat: true, openAgentTabsInChatByDefault: true }
+const WORKTREE_ID = 'repo-1::/repo/wt-1'
+const WORKSPACE = { kind: 'git-worktree', worktreeId: WORKTREE_ID, repoId: 'repo-1' } as const
+
+/** Rival repos publishing the same worktree id on different hosts: the documented case where owner
+ *  resolution refuses to name a connection rather than authorize a local read of a remote path. */
+function storeWithAmbiguousWorktreeRows(
+  repoConnectionId: string | null
+): AgentLaunchRouteStore & { repos: unknown[] } {
+  return {
+    settings: NATIVE_CHAT_SETTINGS,
+    repos: [{ id: 'repo-1', path: '/repo', connectionId: repoConnectionId }],
+    worktreesByRepo: {
+      'repo-1': [{ id: WORKTREE_ID, repoId: 'repo-1', hostId: null }],
+      'repo-2': [{ id: WORKTREE_ID, repoId: 'repo-1', hostId: 'ssh:other-box' }]
+    }
+  } as unknown as AgentLaunchRouteStore & { repos: unknown[] }
+}
+
+describe('launch route transcript readability', () => {
+  it('cannot name the connection from the worktree when its rows disagree', () => {
+    // The premise of the fallback: this is what returns `undefined`, and `undefined` is not
+    // evidence that the transcript is unreadable.
+    expect(
+      getConnectionIdFromState(storeWithAmbiguousWorktreeRows(null), WORKTREE_ID)
+    ).toBeUndefined()
+  })
+
+  it('falls back to the local repo rather than downgrading native chat to a terminal', () => {
+    const store = storeWithAmbiguousWorktreeRows(null)
+
+    expect(
+      buildAgentLaunchRouteInput(store, { agent: 'grok', workspace: WORKSPACE })
+        .nativeChatTranscriptIsLocalReadable
+    ).toBe(true)
+    expect(planAgentSessionLaunch(store, { agent: 'grok', workspace: WORKSPACE }).route).toBe(
+      'legacy-native-chat'
+    )
+  })
+
+  it('keeps a remote repo off native chat through the same fallback', () => {
+    const store = storeWithAmbiguousWorktreeRows('build-box')
+
+    expect(planAgentSessionLaunch(store, { agent: 'grok', workspace: WORKSPACE }).route).toBe(
+      'terminal-tui'
+    )
+  })
+
+  it('has no repo to fall back to when the workspace names none', () => {
+    const store = storeWithAmbiguousWorktreeRows(null)
+
+    expect(
+      planAgentSessionLaunch(store, {
+        agent: 'grok',
+        workspace: { kind: 'git-worktree', worktreeId: WORKTREE_ID }
+      }).route
+    ).toBe('terminal-tui')
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/lib/agent-launch-routing-caller-census.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/lib/agent-launch-routing-caller-census.test.ts
index 674c23928d4..40857e8a55d 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/lib/agent-launch-routing-caller-census.test.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/lib/agent-launch-routing-caller-census.test.ts
@@ -25,12 +25,6 @@ const LAUNCH_AGENT_IN_NEW_TAB_CALLERS = [
 const ROUTE_RESOLVER_DEFINITION = 'src/renderer/src/lib/agent-launch-routing.ts'
 const ROUTE_PLANNER = 'src/renderer/src/lib/agent-session-launch-plan.ts'
 const DIRECT_ROUTE_RESOLVER_CALL = /\b(?:resolveAgentLaunchRoute|structuredAgentLaunchSupported)\(/
-// Why: asking whether a structured session is POSSIBLE is a query, not a launch decision, so it is
-// allowed outside the planner — but only through the planner's own predicate, and only from the
-// surfaces pinned here. A UI that builds a plan to answer it is the bypass this census catches.
-const STRUCTURED_FEASIBILITY_QUERY_CALLERS = [
-  'src/renderer/src/components/right-sidebar/ai-vault-session-resume-in-chat-workspace.ts'
-]
 // Why: adopting a verdict bypasses the resolver by design (a persisted quick-create request, a
 // resume whose gate already planned), so each adopter is pinned rather than trusted by convention.
 const VERDICT_ADOPTERS = [
@@ -66,25 +60,6 @@ describe('agent launch routing caller census', () => {
     expect(directCallers).toEqual([ROUTE_PLANNER])
   })
 
-  it('pins every production caller of the structured feasibility query', async () => {
-    const callers = (await productionFiles())
-      .filter((file) => file !== ROUTE_PLANNER)
-      .filter((file) =>
-        readFileSync(join(REPO_ROOT, file), 'utf8').includes(
-          'structuredAgentSessionLaunchFeasible('
-        )
-      )
-      .sort()
-    expect(callers).toEqual([...STRUCTURED_FEASIBILITY_QUERY_CALLERS].sort())
-  })
-
-  it('keeps the feasibility query out of every launch decision', async () => {
-    // A query caller that also plans a launch has re-crossed the line the split exists to draw.
-    for (const file of STRUCTURED_FEASIBILITY_QUERY_CALLERS) {
-      expect(readFileSync(join(REPO_ROOT, file), 'utf8')).not.toContain('planAgentSessionLaunch(')
-    }
-  })
-
   it('pins every production adopter of a planned verdict', async () => {
     const adopters = (await productionFiles())
       .filter((file) => file !== ROUTE_PLANNER)