diff --git a/.github/workflows/_retry-probe.yml b/.github/workflows/_retry-probe.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 136970c2..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/_retry-probe.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-name: Retry Probe (temporary)
-
-# TEMPORARY end-to-end test fixture for agent-retry.yml (#489). Removed in the
-# follow-up PR once the retry chain has been observed working on main.
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-    inputs:
-      mode:
-        type: choice
-        default: recover
-        options:
-          - recover
-          - timeout-both
-        description: recover = attempt 1 times out, attempt 2 succeeds; timeout-both = every attempt times out
-
-jobs:
-  leg:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    timeout-minutes: 1
-    steps:
-    - name: Time out on attempt 1 (and on every attempt in timeout-both mode)
-      env:
-        MODE: ${{ inputs.mode }}
-        ATTEMPT: ${{ github.run_attempt }}
-      run: |
-        echo "mode=${MODE} attempt=${ATTEMPT}"
-        if [ "$ATTEMPT" = "1" ] || [ "$MODE" = "timeout-both" ]; then
-          echo "sleeping past timeout-minutes on purpose"
-          sleep 300
-        fi
-        echo "attempt ${ATTEMPT} succeeded"
-
-  finalize:
-    needs: leg
-    if: always()
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-    - name: Fail the run unless the leg succeeded (mirrors monitor.yml finalize)
-      env:
-        LEG_RESULT: ${{ needs.leg.result }}
-      run: |
-        echo "leg result: ${LEG_RESULT}"
-        [ "$LEG_RESULT" = "success" ] || exit 1
diff --git a/.github/workflows/agent-retry.yml b/.github/workflows/agent-retry.yml
index 5f537910..935341e2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/agent-retry.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/agent-retry.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ on:
       - Monitor
       - Daily Project Assessment
       - Product Analysis
-      - Retry Probe (temporary)   # TEMPORARY, removed with _retry-probe.yml
     types: [completed]
 
 permissions:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/workflow-canary.yml b/.github/workflows/workflow-canary.yml
index 75605901..be684f57 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/workflow-canary.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/workflow-canary.yml
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ jobs:
     env:
       PD_URL: https://events.eu.pagerduty.com/v2/enqueue
       PD_KEY: ${{ secrets.PAGERDUTY_ROUTING_KEY }}
-      DRY_RUN: ${{ inputs.dry_run == 'true' }}
+      # boolean input vs string 'true' never matched (coerced to 1 vs NaN) — every "dry run" was live
+      DRY_RUN: ${{ inputs.dry_run == true }}
 
     steps:
     - name: Resolve canary self-report