diff --git a/docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/frontend-primitives.md b/docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/frontend-primitives.md
index 8215d940b..70f45815a 100644
--- a/docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/frontend-primitives.md
+++ b/docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/frontend-primitives.md
@@ -865,7 +865,10 @@ work extends shared components instead of creating new local variants.
     shell therefore owns the shared `PageHeader` for support tools, and
     `frontend-modern/src/pages/Operations.tsx` must stay a redirect-only
     compatibility handoff instead of regrowing a second route-local heading,
-    tab strip, or page shell for diagnostics, reporting, or logs.
+    tab strip, or page shell for diagnostics, reporting, or logs. Because the
+    dashboard route is retired, that audit must also discover live top-level
+    pages from `src/pages/` and may not keep a hard required-header entry for
+    `frontend-modern/src/pages/Dashboard.tsx`.
 23. Keep the authenticated app root aligned with that same first-session path.
     That same shared-primitive ownership now includes contextual row focus.
     `frontend-modern/src/components/shared/contextualFocus.ts` is the canonical
diff --git a/frontend-modern/scripts/header-audit.mjs b/frontend-modern/scripts/header-audit.mjs
index 8b150d3cd..9ffbf8fef 100644
--- a/frontend-modern/scripts/header-audit.mjs
+++ b/frontend-modern/scripts/header-audit.mjs
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ const ROOT = process.cwd();
 const REQUIRED_PAGE_HEADERS = new Map([
   ['src/pages/AIIntelligence.tsx', 'PageHeader'],
   ['src/pages/Ceph.tsx', 'PageHeader'],
-  ['src/pages/Dashboard.tsx', 'PageHeader'],
   ['src/pages/Infrastructure.tsx', 'PageHeader'],
   ['src/pages/NotFound.tsx', 'PageHeader'],
   ['src/pages/PricingHandoff.tsx', 'PageHeader'],
diff --git a/frontend-modern/src/__tests__/App.architecture.test.ts b/frontend-modern/src/__tests__/App.architecture.test.ts
index 7da3680e7..893d9f49a 100644
--- a/frontend-modern/src/__tests__/App.architecture.test.ts
+++ b/frontend-modern/src/__tests__/App.architecture.test.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import routePreloadSource from '@/routing/routePreload.ts?raw';
 import appRuntimeStateSource from '@/useAppRuntimeState.ts?raw';
 
 const appStylesSource = readFileSync(join(process.cwd(), 'src/index.css'), 'utf8');
+const headerAuditSource = readFileSync(join(process.cwd(), 'scripts/header-audit.mjs'), 'utf8');
 
 describe('App architecture', () => {
   it('keeps App as the entry shell that delegates runtime and chrome ownership', () => {
@@ -46,6 +47,7 @@ describe('App architecture', () => {
       '<Route path={INFRASTRUCTURE_ROUTE_PATH} component={InfrastructurePage} />',
     );
     expect(appSource).not.toContain('DashboardPage');
+    expect(headerAuditSource).not.toContain("['src/pages/Dashboard.tsx', 'PageHeader']");
     expect(appSource).toContain("import RuntimeHomePage from '@/pages/RuntimeHome';");
     expect(appSource).toContain('<Route path="/login" component={RuntimeHomePage} />');
     expect(appSource).toContain('<Route path="/" component={RuntimeHomePage} />');