diff --git a/src/localcode/agent/__init__.py b/src/localcode/agent/__init__.py
index c673ce0c..f3b6cf3b 100644
--- a/src/localcode/agent/__init__.py
+++ b/src/localcode/agent/__init__.py
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
 
 # ── Prompt templates + project-instructions loader ────────────────────────
 # Moved to agent/prompts.py during the T0.1-b split. Re-exported here so
-# external callers (dev/eval/prompt_variants.py, tests/promptfoo, app.py,
+# external callers (app.py,
 # tests/test_context_pipeline_e2e.py) that do
 #   `from localcode.agent import SYSTEM_PROMPT`
 # keep working unchanged. See agent/prompts.py for the commented
diff --git a/src/localcode/theme.py b/src/localcode/theme.py
index b05385e0..f776cd63 100644
--- a/src/localcode/theme.py
+++ b/src/localcode/theme.py
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ class Palette:
     # `textual-ansi` theme set in tui/app.py — see the explanation
     # in tui/styles/app.tcss. These hex strings are kept only for
     # the rare consumer that imports `C.background` / `C.surface`
-    # for a non-TUI render (logs / docs / promptfoo screenshots).
+    # for a non-TUI render (logs / docs screenshots).
     # If any user-visible UI is reading these for an actual
     # rendered background, that's a bug — route through ANSI instead.
     background:     str = "#1e1e1e"   # legacy, non-rendering
diff --git a/tests/test_architecture.py b/tests/test_architecture.py
index d0790ce9..3c0bfb1d 100644
--- a/tests/test_architecture.py
+++ b/tests/test_architecture.py
@@ -360,6 +360,9 @@ def test_agent_submodules_declare_all():
 # allowlist with a reason than silently let printfs leak into the
 # agent loop.
 PRINT_ALLOWLIST = {
+    "launch.py",  # UI launcher: prints to the terminal BEFORE the UI runtime starts (no event bus yet)
+    "ports.py",  # UI launcher: prints to the terminal BEFORE the UI runtime starts (no event bus yet)
+    "server_cmd.py",  # UI launcher: prints to the terminal BEFORE the UI runtime starts (no event bus yet)
     # CLI entry point: `python -m localcode.errors` emits the
     # error-code docs table. Not reachable from the agent loop.
     "errors.py",