diff --git a/src/help-text.ts b/src/help-text.ts
index 4ad077a4a..e82abc2d8 100644
--- a/src/help-text.ts
+++ b/src/help-text.ts
@@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ const SUBCOMMAND_HELP: Record<string, string> = {
 		"  query                Machine snapshot: JSON state + next dispatch + costs (no LLM)",
 		"  usage                Live LLM-provider usage snapshot (today: gemini-cli tier + per-model quota)",
 		"  reflect              Assemble reflection corpus + render prompt for cross-corpus pattern analysis (--json for raw, --run to dispatch to gemini-cli, --model <id> to override)",
+		"  triage               Render canonical self-feedback triage prompt for piping into a model (--list for digest, --json for structured, --max N to cap, --run to dispatch + write decisions to .sf/triage/decisions/, --model <id> to override)",
 		"",
 		"new-milestone flags:",
 		"  --context <path>     Path to spec/PRD file (use '-' for stdin)",
@@ -255,6 +256,11 @@ const SUBCOMMAND_HELP: Record<string, string> = {
 		"  sf headless query                              Instant machine JSON state snapshot",
 		"  sf headless status uok                        UOK gate health table (last 24h)",
 		"  sf headless status uok --json                 UOK gate health as JSON",
+		"  sf headless triage --list                      Self-feedback queue digest (impact↓ effort↑ ts↑)",
+		"  sf headless triage | sf-some-model             Pipe triage prompt to any model",
+		"  sf headless triage --run                       Dispatch triage to default model + write decisions",
+		"  sf headless reflect                            Render reflection prompt for piping",
+		"  sf headless reflect --run                      Dispatch reflection + write report",
 		"",
 		"Exit codes: 0 = success, 1 = error/timeout, 10 = blocked, 11 = cancelled",
 	].join("\n"),
diff --git a/src/resources/extensions/sf/auto/phases-pre-dispatch.js b/src/resources/extensions/sf/auto/phases-pre-dispatch.js
index 522ca7b39..12edd8211 100644
--- a/src/resources/extensions/sf/auto/phases-pre-dispatch.js
+++ b/src/resources/extensions/sf/auto/phases-pre-dispatch.js
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ import {
 	rollbackToCheckpoint,
 } from "../safety/git-checkpoint.js";
 import { resolveSafetyHarnessConfig } from "../safety/safety-harness.js";
+import { selectInlineFixCandidates } from "../self-feedback-drain.js";
 import { recordSelfFeedback } from "../self-feedback.js";
 import {
 	checkpointWal,
@@ -123,6 +124,35 @@ import {
 } from "./types.js";
 import { closeoutAndStop, generateMilestoneReport, maybeFireProductAudit, shouldRunPlanningFlowGate } from "./phases-helpers.js";
 
+/**
+ * Surface the open self-feedback queue to the operator at idle-bail time.
+ *
+ * Why here (sf-mp4rxkwb-l4baga partial): the autonomous loop has historically
+ * exited silently on "no-active-milestone" / "milestone-complete" while the
+ * self-feedback queue still had unresolved entries. Operators didn't know
+ * the queue was waiting, so triage never ran. This helper makes the queue
+ * visible at the exact moment the loop is about to bail — the proper fix
+ * (triage as a real unit type) is the larger remaining slice of the parent
+ * entry.
+ *
+ * Best-effort: never throws, never blocks. If candidate selection fails or
+ * the basePath isn't a forge repo, this is a no-op.
+ */
+function surfaceSelfFeedbackQueueOnIdle(ctx, basePath, exitReason) {
+	try {
+		const candidates = selectInlineFixCandidates(basePath);
+		if (!Array.isArray(candidates) || candidates.length === 0) return;
+		const n = candidates.length;
+		const noun = n === 1 ? "entry" : "entries";
+		ctx.ui.notify(
+			`Idle (${exitReason}) but ${n} self-feedback ${noun} still open. Run \`sf headless triage --list\` to scan, or \`sf headless triage --run\` to dispatch the canonical triage prompt.`,
+			"warning",
+		);
+	} catch {
+		// Best-effort — never block the loop's bail path on a queue probe.
+	}
+}
+
 // ─── runPreDispatch ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 /**
  * Phase 1: Pre-dispatch — resource guard, health gate, state derivation,
@@ -616,6 +646,7 @@ export async function runPreDispatch(ic, loopState) {
 				`No active milestone — ${incomplete.length} incomplete (${ids}), see diagnostic above`,
 			);
 		}
+		surfaceSelfFeedbackQueueOnIdle(ctx, s.basePath, "no-active-milestone");
 		debugLog("autoLoop", { phase: "exit", reason: "no-active-milestone" });
 		deps.emitJournalEvent({
 			ts: new Date().toISOString(),
@@ -709,6 +740,7 @@ export async function runPreDispatch(ic, loopState) {
 		);
 		deps.logCmuxEvent(prefs, `Milestone ${mid} complete.`, "success");
 		await closeoutAndStop(ctx, pi, s, deps, `Milestone ${mid} complete`);
+		surfaceSelfFeedbackQueueOnIdle(ctx, s.basePath, "milestone-complete");
 		debugLog("autoLoop", { phase: "exit", reason: "milestone-complete" });
 		deps.emitJournalEvent({
 			ts: new Date().toISOString(),