diff --git a/examples/personal-workspace-browser-smoke.mjs b/examples/personal-workspace-browser-smoke.mjs
index 16872f5371..fcd27a7ae3 100644
--- a/examples/personal-workspace-browser-smoke.mjs
+++ b/examples/personal-workspace-browser-smoke.mjs
@@ -23,10 +23,11 @@ import {
 } from "./personal-workspace-browser/fixture.mjs";
 import { navigationSortingScenario } from "./personal-workspace-browser/navigation-sorting.mjs";
 import { progressiveLoadingScenario } from "./personal-workspace-browser/progressive-loading.mjs";
+import { stewardJourneyScenario } from "./personal-workspace-browser/steward-journey.mjs";
 import { teamPlanScenario } from "./personal-workspace-browser/team-plan.mjs";
 import { typedActionsScenario } from "./personal-workspace-browser/typed-actions.mjs";
 
-const scenarioCatalog = [navigationSortingScenario, chatRecoveryScenario, typedActionsScenario, teamPlanScenario, executionChipScenario, progressiveLoadingScenario];
+const scenarioCatalog = [navigationSortingScenario, chatRecoveryScenario, typedActionsScenario, teamPlanScenario, stewardJourneyScenario, executionChipScenario, progressiveLoadingScenario];
 const requestedScenario = process.env.LOOPX_PERSONAL_WORKSPACE_SCENARIO;
 const scenarios = requestedScenario
   ? scenarioCatalog.filter((scenario) => scenario.id === requestedScenario)
diff --git a/examples/personal-workspace-browser/steward-journey.mjs b/examples/personal-workspace-browser/steward-journey.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..53ac3bd919
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/personal-workspace-browser/steward-journey.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,312 @@
+// Frontend-first steward journey acceptance.
+//
+// The existing scenarios cover one surface each. This one walks the owner
+// journey through the workspace in order: the first screen, asking the steward
+// for work, the admitted team plan card, and confirming it. Beats that the
+// product does not yet prove from these surfaces are recorded as typed gaps
+// with the probe that looked for them, so the journey reports current truth
+// instead of asserting a happy path the workspace cannot show.
+//
+// Everything here is synthetic: the fixture substitutes the agent turn, and no
+// live workspace, Goal, agent or local path is read or captured.
+
+import { writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { resolve } from "node:path";
+
+import { outputDir, packaged } from "./fixture.mjs";
+import { openWorkspacePage } from "./scenario-context.mjs";
+
+const GOAL_ID = "product-release";
+const GOAL_TITLE = "Product Release";
+const PROPOSAL_ID = "proposal-steward-journey-fixture";
+const PLAN_SUMMARY = "为 product-release 配出 2 条 lane 的团队";
+const READY_TODO = "Implement the bounded intake";
+const GAP_TODO = "Independently review the intake";
+const STEWARD_PROMPT = "找下一步";
+
+function teamPlanProposal() {
+  return {
+    schema_version: "loopx_chat_action_proposal_v1",
+    proposal_id: PROPOSAL_ID,
+    action_kind: "team.plan",
+    summary: PLAN_SUMMARY,
+    normalized_parameters: {
+      goal_id: GOAL_ID,
+      plan: {
+        schema_version: "steward_team_plan_preview_v0",
+        kind: "steward_team_plan_preview",
+        goal_id: GOAL_ID,
+        objective: "Ship the bounded intake",
+        lanes: [
+          {
+            lane_id: "lane_intake",
+            agent_id: "agent-backend",
+            acceptance: "the bounded Todo is created through the canonical owner",
+            staffing: "ready",
+            first_todo: {
+              text: READY_TODO,
+              priority: "P1",
+              task_class: "advancement_task",
+              action_kind: "implement",
+            },
+          },
+          {
+            lane_id: "lane_review",
+            agent_id: "agent-reviewer",
+            acceptance: "the review receipt is recorded",
+            staffing: "gap",
+            gap_reason_code: "agent_not_registered",
+            declined_first_todo: {
+              text: GAP_TODO,
+              priority: "P1",
+              task_class: "advancement_task",
+              action_kind: "validate",
+            },
+          },
+        ],
+        gaps: [{ lane_id: "lane_review", reason_code: "agent_not_registered" }],
+        quota_envelope: { slots: 4, window: "1d" },
+        stop_condition: "every lane reports a typed outcome or a stated gap",
+        applies: false,
+      },
+      requested_by: "owner",
+    },
+    context: { kind: "goal", goal_id: GOAL_ID },
+    expected_state_fingerprint: "fixture-steward-journey",
+    permission_classification: "durable_write",
+    validation_evidence: ["every ready lane names an Agent this Goal registers"],
+    available_transitions: ["apply", "cancel"],
+    status: "preview_ready",
+    receipt: null,
+    stale: null,
+    created_at: "2026-09-16T01:00:00Z",
+    updated_at: "2026-09-16T01:00:01Z",
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Probes that look for a surface the journey needs but the workspace may not
+ * expose yet. A probe records what it searched for and what it found, so a gap
+ * stays evidence-bearing instead of becoming a claim about the whole product.
+ */
+async function probe(page, { beat, need, selectors = [], phrases = [] }) {
+  const foundSelectors = [];
+  for (const selector of selectors) {
+    if (await page.locator(selector).count() > 0) foundSelectors.push(selector);
+  }
+  const bodyText = await page.locator("body").innerText();
+  const foundPhrases = phrases.filter((phrase) => bodyText.includes(phrase));
+  return {
+    beat,
+    need,
+    status: foundSelectors.length > 0 || foundPhrases.length > 0 ? "present" : "gap",
+    probe: { selectors, phrases },
+    observed: { matched_selectors: foundSelectors, matched_phrases: foundPhrases },
+  };
+}
+
+export const stewardJourneyScenario = {
+  id: "steward-journey",
+  async run({ browser, collectCoverage, url }) {
+    const failures = [];
+    const beats = [];
+    const gaps = [];
+    // The lane's acceptance is that this journey is reproducible from the
+    // *packaged* frontend, not only from the development server. Recording the
+    // mode keeps that claim checkable instead of implied by whoever ran it, and
+    // the bundle assertion catches a packaged run that silently served source.
+    const servedMode = packaged ? "packaged" : "development";
+    if (packaged) {
+      if (!url.includes("/chat/")) {
+        failures.push(`packaged run did not serve the built bundle (${url})`);
+      }
+    }
+    const record = (beat, detail) => beats.push({ beat, detail });
+    const check = (condition, message) => {
+      if (!condition) failures.push(message);
+    };
+    const context = await openWorkspacePage(browser, url, {
+      apiOptions: { initialActionProposals: [teamPlanProposal()] },
+      collectCoverage,
+    });
+    try {
+      const { api, page } = context;
+
+      // Beat 1: the first screen the owner sees before asking for anything.
+      await page.locator(".personal-home-board").waitFor({ state: "visible", timeout: 15_000 });
+      const homeText = await page.locator(".personal-home-board").innerText();
+      const laneCounts = {};
+      for (const lane of ["needs_you", "running", "observing", "scheduled"]) {
+        const section = page.locator(`[data-testid="personal-home-lane-${lane}"]`);
+        laneCounts[lane] = await section.count() ? await section.locator(".personal-home-goal-card").count() : 0;
+      }
+      const stewardCard = page.locator(".personal-home-goal-card", { hasText: GOAL_TITLE });
+      check(await stewardCard.count() >= 1, "the registered steward Goal is visible on the first screen");
+      check(
+        homeText.includes("需要你") || homeText.includes("执行中"),
+        "the first screen separates what needs the owner from what is running",
+      );
+      record("1-first-screen", {
+        goal_visible: await stewardCard.count() >= 1,
+        lane_counts: laneCounts,
+        card_text: await stewardCard.first().innerText().catch(() => ""),
+        screenshot: "steward-journey-1-first-screen.png",
+      });
+      await page.screenshot({
+        path: resolve(outputDir, "steward-journey-1-first-screen.png"),
+        fullPage: false,
+        animations: "disabled",
+      });
+
+      // Beat 2: ask the steward for work in the Goal conversation and keep the
+      // answer and the plan card in the conversation the owner asked in.
+      await stewardCard.first().click();
+      const goalNavigation = page.getByRole("navigation", { name: "Goal 视图" });
+      await goalNavigation.getByRole("button", { name: "Chat" }).click();
+      // Probed before the owner types, so the owner's own words cannot be
+      // mistaken for a rendered steward affordance.
+      gaps.push(await probe(page, {
+        beat: "2-steward-prompts",
+        need: "the steward's bounded prompt set (找下一步 / 看阻塞 / 查证据) reachable from the conversation",
+        selectors: ["[data-testid='personal-steward-prompts']", "[data-steward-prompt]"],
+        phrases: ["看阻塞", "查证据"],
+      }));
+      const composer = page.getByLabel("向 LoopX 发送消息");
+      await composer.fill(`${STEWARD_PROMPT}：请给我一份当前 Goal 的下一步。`);
+      await page.getByRole("button", { name: "发送", exact: true }).click();
+      let turn;
+      for (let attempt = 0; attempt < 40 && !turn; attempt += 1) {
+        turn = api.turnRequests.find((request) => request.message.includes(STEWARD_PROMPT));
+        if (!turn) await page.waitForTimeout(50);
+      }
+      check(Boolean(turn), "the steward prompt reaches the Goal conversation as an accepted Turn");
+      const row = page.locator(".personal-proposal-row", { hasText: PLAN_SUMMARY });
+      await row.waitFor({ state: "visible", timeout: 15_000 });
+      await row.click();
+      const drawer = page.locator('.personal-context-drawer[data-context-kind="proposal"]');
+      await drawer.getByText("配额包络", { exact: true }).waitFor({ state: "visible", timeout: 15_000 });
+      const previewText = await drawer.innerText();
+      check(previewText.includes("agent-backend"), "a ready lane names the Agent that runs it");
+      check(
+        previewText.includes(`P1 · implement · ${READY_TODO}`),
+        "a ready lane shows its first bounded Todo with priority and action kind",
+      );
+      check(
+        previewText.includes("未配齐") && previewText.includes(GAP_TODO),
+        "a gap lane says it is unstaffed and keeps the work it did not staff",
+      );
+      check(
+        previewText.includes("确认后会通过既有 owner"),
+        "the card states that confirming is what creates the lanes",
+      );
+      record("2-ask-and-plan-card", {
+        accepted_turn: turn?.turnId ?? null,
+        plan_summary: PLAN_SUMMARY,
+        ready_lane: "agent-backend",
+        gap_lane_reason: "agent_not_registered",
+        asked_from: "composer",
+        screenshot: "steward-journey-2-plan-card.png",
+      });
+      await page.screenshot({
+        path: resolve(outputDir, "steward-journey-2-plan-card.png"),
+        fullPage: false,
+        animations: "disabled",
+      });
+
+      // Beat 3: confirm, and record what the workspace actually reports after
+      // the canonical owner ran.
+      const confirm = drawer.getByRole("button", { name: "确认并组建各 lane", exact: true });
+      check(await confirm.count() === 1, "exactly one confirmation control is offered");
+      await confirm.click();
+      for (let attempt = 0; attempt < 60 && api.actionApplies.length === 0; attempt += 1) {
+        await page.waitForTimeout(50);
+      }
+      check(
+        api.actionApplies.filter((proposalId) => proposalId === PROPOSAL_ID).length === 1,
+        "confirming sends exactly one apply for the confirmed proposal",
+      );
+      check(api.durableWriteCount === 1, "the confirmed apply performed exactly one durable write");
+      const applied = drawer.getByText("已应用，LoopX 状态将刷新。", { exact: true });
+      await applied.waitFor({ state: "visible", timeout: 15_000 });
+      record("3-confirm", {
+        applies: api.actionApplies.length,
+        durable_writes: api.durableWriteCount,
+        outcome_text: await applied.innerText(),
+        outcome_fidelity: "single applied sentence; no per-lane committed/partial/all-gap/stale/rejected",
+      });
+      gaps.push({
+        beat: "3-confirm",
+        need: "per-lane outcome after confirm (committed / partial / all-gap / stale / rejected)",
+        status: "gap",
+        probe: { selectors: [], phrases: ["部分", "缺人", "已提交", "未配齐"] },
+        observed: {
+          matched_phrases: (await drawer.innerText()).includes("部分") ? ["部分"] : [],
+          surface_text: await applied.innerText(),
+        },
+        owner_hint: "steward R1 remainder (confirmation card outcome fidelity)",
+      });
+      await page.screenshot({
+        path: resolve(outputDir, "steward-journey-3-confirmed.png"),
+        fullPage: false,
+        animations: "disabled",
+      });
+
+      // Beats 4-7: record what these surfaces do and do not yet prove.
+      gaps.push(await probe(page, {
+        beat: "4-readiness",
+        need: "a per-lane readiness ladder (registered -> bound -> launchable -> executing)",
+        selectors: ["[data-lane-readiness]", "[data-testid='personal-lane-readiness']"],
+        phrases: ["可启动", "已绑定", "未绑定执行器"],
+      }));
+      gaps.push(await probe(page, {
+        beat: "5-correction",
+        need: "correcting a confirmed lane commitment (pause / supersede) from the same conversation",
+        selectors: ["[data-testid='personal-lane-correction']", "[data-lane-correction]"],
+        phrases: ["撤销该 lane", "暂停 lane"],
+      }));
+      gaps.push(await probe(page, {
+        beat: "6-recovery",
+        need: "a failed lane naming its blocker owner and next step on the workspace",
+        selectors: ["[data-testid='personal-lane-blocker']", "[data-lane-blocker-owner]"],
+        phrases: ["该 lane 阻塞", "负责重新派发"],
+      }));
+      gaps.push(await probe(page, {
+        beat: "7-return",
+        need: "completion judged by the lane's returned result, not by the conversation",
+        selectors: ["[data-testid='personal-lane-return']", "[data-lane-return-receipt]"],
+        phrases: ["按回执完成", "交付回执已核验"],
+      }));
+
+      const scriptErrors = context.errors.filter((message) => !message.startsWith("Failed to load resource"));
+      check(scriptErrors.length === 0, `no client-side exception was raised (${scriptErrors.join(" | ")})`);
+
+      await writeFile(
+        resolve(outputDir, "steward-journey-report.json"),
+        `${JSON.stringify(
+          {
+            beats,
+            gaps,
+            mode: servedMode,
+            served_root: packaged ? "loopx/web/chat" : "vite-development-server",
+            url,
+            scenario: "steward-journey",
+          },
+          null,
+          2,
+        )}\n`,
+        "utf8",
+      );
+      const gapBeats = gaps.filter((entry) => entry.status === "gap").map((entry) => entry.beat);
+      console.log(
+        `steward-journey mode=${servedMode} beats=${beats.length} gaps=${gapBeats.join(",") || "none"}`,
+      );
+    } finally {
+      await context.close();
+    }
+    if (failures.length) throw new Error(failures.join(" | "));
+    return {
+      coverageEntries: context.coverageEntries,
+      note: `frontend journey beats recorded; unproven beats reported as gaps (${gaps.filter((entry) => entry.status === "gap").map((entry) => entry.beat).join(", ") || "none"})`,
+    };
+  },
+};