diff --git a/frontend/src/app/components/Onboarding/OnboardingRoot.tsx b/frontend/src/app/components/Onboarding/OnboardingRoot.tsx
index e4b71fef..300334dc 100644
--- a/frontend/src/app/components/Onboarding/OnboardingRoot.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/app/components/Onboarding/OnboardingRoot.tsx
@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ const OnboardingRoot: React.FC = () => {
       !(s.onboardingProgress.completedSteps ?? []).includes('launch_agent') &&
       Object.keys(s.agents?.sessions ?? {}).length === 0,
   );
-  // Onboarding v3 owns the window on a fresh install; the v2 cursor tour stays dormant until the flow resolves.
-  const v3Owns = useAppSelector((s) => s.onboardingV3.flowActive);
+  // Onboarding v3 owns the window on a fresh install; the v2 cursor tour + panel stay dormant while the flow runs AND forever after it resolves (a v3'd user has already onboarded, so the v2 "connect your model / Show me" tour on top of the v3 reveal is contradictory clutter).
+  const v3Owns = useAppSelector((s) => s.onboardingV3.flowActive || !!s.settings.data.onboarding_v3);
   const welcomeFiredRef = useRef(false);
   const welcomeTimerRef = useRef<number | null>(null);
   useEffect(() => {
diff --git a/frontend/src/app/components/nudges/PrepKeepToast.tsx b/frontend/src/app/components/nudges/PrepKeepToast.tsx
index 95bb1560..5b9a9358 100644
--- a/frontend/src/app/components/nudges/PrepKeepToast.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/app/components/nudges/PrepKeepToast.tsx
@@ -58,15 +58,15 @@ const PrepKeepToast: React.FC = () => {
         action={
           <>
             <Button size="small" onClick={finish} sx={{ color: c.accent.primary, fontWeight: 700 }}>
-              Keep
+              Keep them
             </Button>
             <Button size="small" onClick={discard} sx={{ color: c.text.tertiary }}>
-              Discard
+              Stop &amp; remove
             </Button>
           </>
         }
       >
-        {`I started ${names} while you set up. Keep going?`}
+        {`These are ${names}, which I started for you during setup. Keep them, or stop and remove them?`}
       </Alert>
     </Snackbar>
   );
diff --git a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/hooks/lifecycle/useOnboardingRevealSeed.ts b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/hooks/lifecycle/useOnboardingRevealSeed.ts
index 09e7ee6c..fb4c3dab 100644
--- a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/hooks/lifecycle/useOnboardingRevealSeed.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/hooks/lifecycle/useOnboardingRevealSeed.ts
@@ -34,11 +34,14 @@ export function useOnboardingRevealSeed({ isActive, dashboardId, expandedSession
         const cy = (vr.height / 2 - cs.panY) / cs.zoom;
         const audit = prepped.find((j) => j.kind === 'audit');
         const app = prepped.find((j) => j.kind === 'app');
-        const lines: string[] = ['While you were setting up, I got started.'];
-        if (scanSummary) lines.push(`Spotted on this Mac: ${scanSummary}.`);
-        if (audit) lines.push(`Already running: ${audit.title}.`);
-        if (app) lines.push(`Already building: ${app.title}.`);
-        if (starters.length > 0) lines.push(`Ready to run:\n${starters.slice(audit ? 1 : 0).map((s) => `- ${s.title}`).join('\n')}`);
+        const lines: string[] = ['Here is what I set up for you.'];
+        if (scanSummary) lines.push(`Looked around: ${scanSummary}.`);
+        const cards: string[] = [];
+        if (audit) cards.push(`- ${audit.title} (running now, on the left)`);
+        if (app) cards.push(`- ${app.title} (building now)`);
+        if (cards.length > 0) lines.push(`Working on:\n${cards.join('\n')}`);
+        if (starters.length > 0) lines.push(`Ready when you are:\n${starters.slice(audit ? 1 : 0).map((s) => `- ${s.title}`).join('\n')}`);
+        lines.push('Nothing is saved or deleted without you. Keep or discard anytime.');
         dispatch(addNote({ x: cx + DEFAULT_CARD_W / 2 + 48, y: cy - 140, color: 'yellow', content: lines.join('\n\n') }));
         prepped.forEach((job, i) => {
           dispatch(placeCard({