diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index a7ab586..f837391 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -74,9 +74,12 @@ test:
 		$(GO) test -race -coverprofile=coverage.out ./internal/... ./cmd/...
 
 # eval-router — score the held-out RU routing fixture (internal/router/eval).
-# Verbose so the report table lands in the terminal; MAVEN_ONNX_LIB additionally
-# runs the prod-representative ONNX baseline (skipped without it). This is the
-# measurement Vikunja #319 compares before #320 flips the route decider.
+# Verbose so the report tables land in the terminal. MAVEN_ONNX_LIB points the
+# prod-representative baseline at the vendored runtime; override it or set it
+# empty to run only the deterministic hash ratchet. This is the measurement
+# Vikunja #319 compares before #320 flips the route decider.
+MAVEN_ONNX_LIB ?= $(shell pwd)/deps/onnxruntime-linux-x64-1.26.0/lib/libonnxruntime.so
+
 eval-router:
 	MAVEN_ONNX_LIB="$(MAVEN_ONNX_LIB)" $(GO) test -v -count=1 ./internal/router/eval/
 
diff --git a/internal/router/eval/eval.go b/internal/router/eval/eval.go
index 35fb623..a9ca05c 100644
--- a/internal/router/eval/eval.go
+++ b/internal/router/eval/eval.go
@@ -135,6 +135,10 @@ type Report struct {
 	// act is a confident destructive guess.
 	MissedClarify int
 	Errors        int
+	// SlotsDeferred — stage-0 hits whose slot the daemon fills downstream
+	// (reminder grammar → applyAction's time parser). Not a miss, but not a
+	// full router-level win either; tracked so the two aren't conflated.
+	SlotsDeferred int
 	Outcomes      []Outcome
 	// Confusion counts want→got intent pairs, decided cases only.
 	Confusion map[string]int
@@ -218,7 +222,17 @@ func Score(ctx context.Context, name string, r Router, f Fixture) (Report, error
 				o.Reasons = append(o.Reasons, fmt.Sprintf("intent %q, want %q (%.3f)", d.Intent, c.Intent, d.Confidence))
 			}
 			if c.WantTime && !d.Slots.HasTime {
-				o.Reasons = append(o.Reasons, "no time slot, want one")
+				// Stage 0 skips the extractor by design: ReminderGrammar
+				// captures the text after "напомни"/"remind me" and the
+				// daemon's applyAction runs the time parser on it (see
+				// stage0.go). Charging the router for a slot it was never
+				// asked to fill would make an exact-match win look like a
+				// miss — so it is counted, not failed.
+				if d.Stage == 0 {
+					rep.SlotsDeferred++
+				} else {
+					o.Reasons = append(o.Reasons, "no time slot, want one")
+				}
 			}
 			if c.WantFn && !d.Slots.HasFn {
 				o.Reasons = append(o.Reasons, "no fn slot, want an allowlist match")
@@ -282,8 +296,8 @@ func (r Report) String() string {
 	var b strings.Builder
 	fmt.Fprintf(&b, "%s: %d/%d cases (%.1f%% full, %.1f%% intent-only)\n",
 		r.Name, r.Passed, r.Total, 100*r.Accuracy(), 100*r.IntentAccuracy())
-	fmt.Fprintf(&b, "  clarify: %d false (asked, shouldn't) / %d missed (guessed, shouldn't) | errors: %d\n",
-		r.FalseClarify, r.MissedClarify, r.Errors)
+	fmt.Fprintf(&b, "  clarify: %d false (asked, shouldn't) / %d missed (guessed, shouldn't) | errors: %d | slots deferred to daemon: %d\n",
+		r.FalseClarify, r.MissedClarify, r.Errors, r.SlotsDeferred)
 	fmt.Fprintf(&b, "  latency: p50 %s  p95 %s  max %s\n", r.P50, r.P95, r.Max)
 	fmt.Fprintf(&b, "  by lang: %s\n", renderStats(r.ByLang))
 	fmt.Fprintf(&b, "  by tag:  %s\n", renderStats(r.ByTag))
diff --git a/internal/router/eval/eval_test.go b/internal/router/eval/eval_test.go
index e6290be..c002ece 100644
--- a/internal/router/eval/eval_test.go
+++ b/internal/router/eval/eval_test.go
@@ -142,13 +142,13 @@ func TestClassifierBaseline(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	t.Log("\n" + rep.String() + rep.Failures())
 
-	// 0.10 is under the observed 0.118, not a target. Almost every case here
+	// 0.15 is under the observed 0.171, not a target. Almost every case here
 	// falls to clarify because the hash embedder's cosine never clears the
 	// 0.55 gate on paraphrases — which is the documented floor behaviour
 	// (AGENTS.md: "Russian recall rarely clears the confidence gate"), not a
 	// bug this fixture is asking anyone to fix. The number worth moving is
 	// TestONNXBaseline's.
-	const floor = 0.10
+	const floor = 0.15
 	if rep.Accuracy() < floor {
 		t.Errorf("accuracy %.3f below ratchet %.2f — routing regressed", rep.Accuracy(), floor)
 	}
@@ -162,10 +162,18 @@ func TestClassifierBaseline(t *testing.T) {
 
 // TestONNXBaseline — the number that actually belongs in Vikunja #319: the
 // deployed cascade with the multilingual ONNX embedder, the configuration
-// homesrv runs. Skipped unless the runtime is present, because the .so is a
-// gitignored ~200MB download and CI has the hash ratchet above instead.
+// homesrv runs. Opt-in via MAVEN_ONNX_LIB because deps/ is gitignored, so the
+// runtime is not guaranteed to exist on a fresh clone; CI has the hash ratchet
+// above instead. `make eval-router` defaults the variable to the vendored
+// deps/onnxruntime-linux-x64-1.26.0 copy.
 //
-//	MAVEN_ONNX_LIB=/usr/local/lib/libonnxruntime.so go test -run ONNXBaseline ./internal/router/eval/
+// Measured 2026-07-31 on deps/onnxruntime-linux-x64-1.26.0: 28/76 (36.8%),
+// 21 false clarifies, 5 MISSED clarifies, p50 ~30-70ms. The missed clarifies
+// are the finding — every one of the six ambiguous utterances scores higher
+// cosine under ONNX than under the hash floor, so the 0.55 gate that held them
+// back stops holding: "сделай это" routes to act at 0.847. A better embedder
+// made the refusal lane worse, which is an argument about the gate, not the
+// embedder.
 //
 // Reports rather than asserts: the score is an input to the #320 flip decision,
 // and a threshold invented here would just be a second opinion about the same