diff --git a/packages/daemon/src/domain/queue-stuck-sweep.ts b/packages/daemon/src/domain/queue-stuck-sweep.ts
index 676d51310d..550ca6edfd 100644
--- a/packages/daemon/src/domain/queue-stuck-sweep.ts
+++ b/packages/daemon/src/domain/queue-stuck-sweep.ts
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import { resolvePickupThresholdMinutes } from "./queue-pickup.js";
 
 import { resolveOperatorSeat, resolveRecoveryAgentSeat, resolveSessionNodeId } from "./queue-owner.js";
 import { nodeSessionConfirmedMissing } from "./node-inventory.js";
+import { isBoundTerminalSeat } from "./terminal-seat.js";
 import type Database from "better-sqlite3";
 import { deriveCrossHostSuccessorId, hasLinkedSuccessor, matchesRecordedHandoffTarget, QueueRepositoryError, type QueueItem, type QueueRepository } from "./queue-repository.js";
 import { stalledPickupFinding } from "./queue-pickup.js";
@@ -865,21 +866,26 @@ export async function runStuckSweep(deps: StuckSweepDeps): Promise<StuckSweepRes
     // OpenRig rings, whose work is still unclaimed (its ring failed, or it didn't pick the work up by the unclaimed
     // age), goes the same way; one that claimed and stalled keeps its own finding, which rings it. Only a person can
     // make a hosted member check its work, so the person goes first: the operator seat when it's a person's address,
-    // else the row's creator, else the operator agent, skipping any that is unset, this seat, confirmed missing or
-    // unroutable itself.
+    // else the row's creator, else the operator agent, skipping any that is unset, this seat, confirmed missing,
+    // unroutable or a terminal seat itself. A bound terminal seat goes the same way: the queue wake types nothing into
+    // it, and nothing there can claim work.
     const classOf = (seat: string) => deps.queueRepo.classifyDestinationOf(seat).class;
     for (const c of candidates) {
       if (c.route !== c.row.destinationSession) continue;
       const destination = classOf(c.row.destinationSession);
       const noRoute = destination === "unroutable" && !!c.row.lastNudgeResult?.startsWith("unroutable:");
-      if (!noRoute && !(destination === "hosted" && !c.row.claimedAt)) continue;
+      const terminalSeat = destination === "pane-bound" && isBoundTerminalSeat(deps.db, c.row.destinationSession);
+      if (!noRoute && !terminalSeat && !(destination === "hosted" && !c.row.claimedAt)) continue;
       const operatorSeat = (deps.resolveOperatorSeat ?? resolveOperatorSeat)();
       const person = operatorSeat && classOf(operatorSeat) === "gateway-routable" ? operatorSeat : null;
       const choices = [person, c.row.sourceSession, (deps.resolveRecoveryAgentSeat ?? resolveRecoveryAgentSeat)()];
-      const chosen = choices.findIndex((seat) => !!seat && seat !== c.route && !sessionMissing(seat) && classOf(seat) !== "unroutable");
+      const chosen = choices.findIndex((seat) => !!seat && seat !== c.route && !sessionMissing(seat) && classOf(seat) !== "unroutable"
+        && !isBoundTerminalSeat(deps.db, seat));
       c.why += noRoute
         ? `; ${c.route} has no wake route on this daemon (no terminal, not a person). If it's a hosted member, it sees this work only when it next checks, so ask it to; otherwise fix the address`
-        : `; ${c.route} is a hosted member. OpenRig rang its trigger (${c.row.lastNudgeResult ?? "no ring recorded"}), and it hasn't claimed this work. It sees work only when it checks, so ask it to`;
+        : terminalSeat
+          ? `; ${c.route} is a terminal seat; nothing there can claim this work, and no wake is typed into it. Route the work to an agent seat`
+          : `; ${c.route} is a hosted member. OpenRig rang its trigger (${c.row.lastNudgeResult ?? "no ring recorded"}), and it hasn't claimed this work. It sees work only when it checks, so ask it to`;
       if (chosen < 0) {
         c.why += `. No person, creator or operator agent that can be reached is available, so this finding stays addressed to it`;
         continue;
diff --git a/packages/daemon/test/queue-stuck-sweep.test.ts b/packages/daemon/test/queue-stuck-sweep.test.ts
index 5281927a16..d646f333ef 100644
--- a/packages/daemon/test/queue-stuck-sweep.test.ts
+++ b/packages/daemon/test/queue-stuck-sweep.test.ts
@@ -498,6 +498,40 @@ describe("S02 standing stuck sweep — both halves, routed findings, quiet-but-o
     return row;
   }
 
+  // A bound terminal seat (a shell or a TUI, not an agent): the queue wake types nothing into it and nothing there can
+  // claim work, so its finding goes where an unroutable address's does, never to the seat itself.
+  it("work for a terminal seat is told to the person, not the seat, and says why", async () => {
+    seedLeadSeat();
+    db.prepare("INSERT INTO nodes (id, rig_id, logical_id, runtime, cwd) VALUES ('node-log', 'rig-r', 'logger', 'terminal', '/tmp')").run();
+    db.prepare("INSERT INTO sessions (id, node_id, session_name, status, created_at) VALUES ('sess-log', 'node-log', 'logger@r', 'running', '2026-07-02 12:00:00')").run();
+    db.prepare("INSERT INTO bindings (id, node_id, attachment_type, tmux_session, tmux_pane) VALUES ('bind-log', 'node-log', 'tmux', 'logger@r', '%2')").run();
+    expect(repo.classifyDestinationOf("logger@r").class).toBe("pane-bound");
+    const row = await repo.create({ sourceSession: "lead@r", destinationSession: "logger@r", body: "work" });
+    setNudgeResult(row.qitemId, "failed:terminal-seat: 'logger@r' is a terminal seat (runtime: terminal), not an agent, so no wake was typed into it", new Date());
+    await runSweep({ resolveOperatorSeat: () => "person@external", resolveRecoveryAgentSeat: () => "operator-admin@kernel" });
+    const findings = await findingsFor(row.qitemId);
+    expect(findings).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(findings[0]!.destinationSession).toBe("person@external");
+    expect(findings[0]!.body).toContain("logger@r is a terminal seat; nothing there can claim this work, and no wake is typed into it. Route the work to an agent seat. This finding goes to person@external");
+  });
+
+  // The creator is a terminal seat too, so it can't take the finding either; with no person or operator agent, it stays.
+  it("work for a terminal seat with no person, agent creator or operator agent keeps its finding, and says why", async () => {
+    seedLeadSeat();
+    for (const [id, name, pane] of [["log", "logger", "%2"], ["mon", "monitor", "%3"]]) {
+      db.prepare("INSERT INTO nodes (id, rig_id, logical_id, runtime, cwd) VALUES (?, 'rig-r', ?, 'terminal', '/tmp')").run(`node-${id}`, name);
+      db.prepare("INSERT INTO sessions (id, node_id, session_name, status, created_at) VALUES (?, ?, ?, 'running', '2026-07-02 12:00:00')").run(`sess-${id}`, `node-${id}`, `${name}@r`);
+      db.prepare("INSERT INTO bindings (id, node_id, attachment_type, tmux_session, tmux_pane) VALUES (?, ?, 'tmux', ?, ?)").run(`bind-${id}`, `node-${id}`, `${name}@r`, pane);
+    }
+    const row = await repo.create({ sourceSession: "monitor@r", destinationSession: "logger@r", body: "work" });
+    setNudgeResult(row.qitemId, "failed:terminal-seat: 'logger@r' is a terminal seat (runtime: terminal), not an agent, so no wake was typed into it", new Date());
+    await runSweep({ resolveOperatorSeat: () => null, resolveRecoveryAgentSeat: () => null });
+    const findings = await findingsFor(row.qitemId);
+    expect(findings).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(findings[0]!.destinationSession).toBe("logger@r");
+    expect(findings[0]!.body).toContain("logger@r is a terminal seat; nothing there can claim this work, and no wake is typed into it. Route the work to an agent seat. No person, creator or operator agent that can be reached is available, so this finding stays addressed to it");
+  });
+
   it("work for an address with no wake route (a hosted member) is told to the person, and says why", async () => {
     const row = await mkUnroutableRow();
     await runSweep({ resolveOperatorSeat: () => "person@external", resolveRecoveryAgentSeat: () => "operator-admin@kernel" });