diff --git a/docs/spec/SPEC-011-daemon-architecture.md b/docs/spec/SPEC-011-daemon-architecture.md
index 42f2f3be8..283f1445f 100644
--- a/docs/spec/SPEC-011-daemon-architecture.md
+++ b/docs/spec/SPEC-011-daemon-architecture.md
@@ -243,6 +243,11 @@ restores the pending input under its recorded authority when the reminder
 arrives. A completed turn, partial text, or possible tool effect produces no
 restart reminder.
 
+The daemon gives session drain 20 seconds within a 30-second shutdown phase.
+The CLI allows 45 seconds before forced termination. The generated systemd
+unit allows 60 seconds. A container should set
+`terminationGracePeriodSeconds` to at least 60 seconds.
+
 `netclaw daemon status` checks the PID file and verifies the process is alive.
 Reports: running/stopped, PID, uptime, port, number of active sessions.
 
diff --git a/feeds/skills/.system/files/netclaw-operations/SKILL.md b/feeds/skills/.system/files/netclaw-operations/SKILL.md
index d1eb69083..d971969ef 100644
--- a/feeds/skills/.system/files/netclaw-operations/SKILL.md
+++ b/feeds/skills/.system/files/netclaw-operations/SKILL.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name: netclaw-operations
 description: "REQUIRED when the user asks about scheduling, reminders, cron jobs, timers, background jobs, diagnostics, troubleshooting, MCP tools, daemon health, identity updates, or Netclaw capabilities and self-maintenance."
 metadata:
   author: netclaw
-  version: "2.75.2"
+  version: "2.75.3"
 ---
 
 # Netclaw Operations
diff --git a/feeds/skills/.system/files/netclaw-operations/references/diagnostics.md b/feeds/skills/.system/files/netclaw-operations/references/diagnostics.md
index 7d6bbe72f..93d423602 100644
--- a/feeds/skills/.system/files/netclaw-operations/references/diagnostics.md
+++ b/feeds/skills/.system/files/netclaw-operations/references/diagnostics.md
@@ -88,6 +88,15 @@ Slack health reads the live Socket Mode state. The connection supervisor checks
 A disconnect emits `channel.disconnected`. The supervisor retries with exponential backoff up to five minutes.
 A successful recovery emits `channel.reconnected`.
 
+A graceful stop can resume a safe model turn through a standard reminder.
+The reminder expires ten minutes after the interruption. A completed reply,
+partial reply, or possible tool effect leaves the session quiet. A crash does
+not create a restart reminder.
+
+The daemon gives session drain 20 seconds within a 30-second shutdown phase.
+The CLI allows 45 seconds, and the generated systemd unit allows 60 seconds.
+A pod should set `terminationGracePeriodSeconds` to at least 60 seconds.
+
 If webhook notifications are configured, daemon crash paths emit
 `daemon.crashing` operational alerts with context (PID, reason, and latest known
 session/turn snapshot when available).
diff --git a/src/Netclaw.Cli.Tests/Cli/DaemonManagerGracefulShutdownTests.cs b/src/Netclaw.Cli.Tests/Cli/DaemonManagerGracefulShutdownTests.cs
index b06d2594f..87ec73694 100644
--- a/src/Netclaw.Cli.Tests/Cli/DaemonManagerGracefulShutdownTests.cs
+++ b/src/Netclaw.Cli.Tests/Cli/DaemonManagerGracefulShutdownTests.cs
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ namespace Netclaw.Cli.Tests.Cli;
 /// Covers the canary daemon-stop finding: <c>systemctl --user stop netclaw.service</c> landed
 /// in <c>failed (Result: signal)</c> because <see cref="DaemonManager.StopAsync"/>'s SIGTERM
 /// grace period (previously a hardcoded 10s) was far shorter than the ~200s the daemon's own
-/// Akka CoordinatedShutdown session-drain phase is deliberately allotted — so the CLI itself
+/// Akka CoordinatedShutdown session-drain phase had been allotted — so the CLI itself
 /// gave up and force-killed the daemon long before a legitimately slow (in-flight LLM call)
 /// graceful shutdown could finish. It still died, so `netclaw daemon stop` (ExecStop) reported
 /// success, but via SIGKILL rather than a clean exit — exactly what systemd's
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ namespace Netclaw.Cli.Tests.Cli;
 ///
 /// These tests exercise the two testable halves of the fix: (1) the internal
 /// <see cref="DaemonManager.WaitForExitAsync"/> poll now honors an injected
-/// <see cref="TimeProvider"/> end-to-end (not just for its deadline math), so the up-to-200s
+/// <see cref="TimeProvider"/> end-to-end (not just for its deadline math), so the bounded
 /// wait can be driven with a <see cref="FakeTimeProvider"/> instead of a real sleep; and
 /// (2) the generated systemd unit's <c>TimeoutStopSec=</c> stays in lockstep with
 /// <see cref="DaemonConfig.GracefulShutdownBudget"/> so systemd itself never SIGKILLs the whole
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ public async Task WaitForExitAsync_ReturnsTrue_Immediately_WhenProcessAlreadyExi
         var manager = new DaemonManager(_paths, TimeProvider.System);
         using var exited = StartAndWaitForRealExit();
 
-        var result = await manager.WaitForExitAsync(exited, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(200), CancellationToken.None);
+        var result = await manager.WaitForExitAsync(exited, DaemonConfig.GracefulShutdownBudget, CancellationToken.None);
 
         Assert.True(result);
     }
diff --git a/src/Netclaw.Cli/Daemon/DaemonManager.cs b/src/Netclaw.Cli/Daemon/DaemonManager.cs
index e56b7a7b3..3d8f6a9fa 100644
--- a/src/Netclaw.Cli/Daemon/DaemonManager.cs
+++ b/src/Netclaw.Cli/Daemon/DaemonManager.cs
@@ -180,8 +180,8 @@ await http.PostAsync(
         // Wait for graceful exit. DaemonConfig.GracefulShutdownBudget matches the daemon's own
         // Akka CoordinatedShutdown "before-service-unbind" phase timeout — where session
         // draining (SessionDrainHelper.DrainAsync) actually happens — so the CLI does not give
-        // up on a daemon that is still legitimately draining in-flight sessions (TurnLlmTimeout
-        // defaults to 3 minutes). See DaemonConfig.GracefulShutdownBudget remarks for the full
+        // up on a daemon that is still draining in-flight sessions. See
+        // DaemonConfig.GracefulShutdownBudget remarks for the full
         // layering this must respect: bounded drain < Akka phase timeout < this budget + the
         // grace window below < systemd's TimeoutStopSec= (netclaw-dev/netclaw#1664, #1665).
         var exitedWithinBudget = await WaitForExitAsync(process, DaemonConfig.GracefulShutdownBudget, cancellationToken);
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ await http.PostAsync(
             // exactly this same budget boundary, and still needs to finish tearing down (actor
             // system termination, PID file cleanup) afterward. Poll a short additional grace
             // window before escalating to SIGKILL — production evidence (#1665) showed a
-            // daemon force-killed ~100ms from a clean exit because the CLI escalated the
+            // daemon was force-killed ~100ms from a clean exit because the CLI escalated the
             // instant its budget elapsed, with no headroom at all.
             exitedDuringGraceWindow = await WaitForExitAsync(process, DaemonConfig.CliForceKillGraceWindow, cancellationToken);
         }
@@ -229,8 +229,8 @@ await http.PostAsync(
         if (exitedDuringGraceWindow)
         {
             // Clean exit — no kill needed — but worth surfacing: the daemon used its full
-            // graceful-shutdown budget, which usually means a session was still mid-LLM-call
-            // at shutdown.
+            // graceful-shutdown budget, which can mean that a session task did not stop
+            // after cancellation.
             return new DaemonResult(true,
                 $"Daemon stopped (was PID {pid}); exited during the " +
                 $"{DaemonConfig.CliForceKillGraceWindow.TotalSeconds:F0}s grace window after the " +
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ await http.PostAsync(
         return new DaemonResult(true,
             $"Daemon stopped (was PID {pid}), but did not exit gracefully within " +
             $"{DaemonConfig.CliForceKillBudget.TotalSeconds:F0}s (budget + grace window) and had to be " +
-            "force-killed. This usually means a session was still mid-LLM-call at shutdown; if it " +
+            "force-killed. A session task or teardown step may have stalled; if it " +
             "recurs, check for stuck sessions before stopping the daemon.");
     }
 
@@ -686,7 +686,7 @@ private static bool SendSignal(int pid, Signal signal)
 
     /// <summary>
     /// Polls <paramref name="process"/> until it exits or <paramref name="timeout"/> elapses.
-    /// Internal (not private) so tests can drive the up-to-200-second graceful-shutdown wait
+    /// Internal (not private) so tests can drive the bounded graceful-shutdown wait
     /// via an injected <see cref="TimeProvider"/> without a real wall-clock sleep: the poll
     /// delay is scheduled against <see cref="_timeProvider"/> (matching this repo's virtualized-
     /// timer convention, e.g. <c>ConfigWatcherService</c>), not a bare <c>Task.Delay(ms)</c>.
diff --git a/src/Netclaw.Configuration.Tests/DaemonConfigTests.cs b/src/Netclaw.Configuration.Tests/DaemonConfigTests.cs
index a361fa6c0..59062f58c 100644
--- a/src/Netclaw.Configuration.Tests/DaemonConfigTests.cs
+++ b/src/Netclaw.Configuration.Tests/DaemonConfigTests.cs
@@ -325,12 +325,10 @@ public void ShutdownBudgetLayering_cli_force_kill_budget_stays_under_systemd_tim
     [Fact]
     public void ShutdownBudgetLayering_matches_the_documented_second_values()
     {
-        // Pins the concrete values referenced in netclaw-dev/netclaw#1665's evidence trail
-        // (200s phase timeout, 230s TimeoutStopSec) so a change to any constant is a visible,
-        // deliberate diff rather than a silent drift.
-        Assert.Equal(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(190), DaemonConfig.BoundedDrainTimeout);
-        Assert.Equal(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(200), DaemonConfig.GracefulShutdownBudget);
-        Assert.Equal(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(215), DaemonConfig.CliForceKillBudget);
-        Assert.Equal(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(230), DaemonConfig.SystemdTimeoutStopSec);
+        // Pin the agreed stop limits so a later change to any layer stays visible.
+        Assert.Equal(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(20), DaemonConfig.BoundedDrainTimeout);
+        Assert.Equal(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30), DaemonConfig.GracefulShutdownBudget);
+        Assert.Equal(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(45), DaemonConfig.CliForceKillBudget);
+        Assert.Equal(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(60), DaemonConfig.SystemdTimeoutStopSec);
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/Netclaw.Configuration/DaemonConfig.cs b/src/Netclaw.Configuration/DaemonConfig.cs
index ffe4d8260..67d98c16b 100644
--- a/src/Netclaw.Configuration/DaemonConfig.cs
+++ b/src/Netclaw.Configuration/DaemonConfig.cs
@@ -21,10 +21,9 @@ public sealed record DaemonConfig
     public const int DefaultPort = 5199;
 
     /// <summary>
-    /// Worst-case time the daemon's graceful shutdown drain is allotted before something gives
-    /// up and forces termination. Sized to comfortably exceed <c>SessionConfig.TurnLlmTimeout</c>'s
-    /// default (3 minutes) so a session mid-LLM-call during shutdown can finish draining instead
-    /// of being interrupted.
+    /// Worst-case time for the daemon's graceful shutdown phase. The session actor gives a
+    /// model call a short completion grace, then confirms cancellation before it returns a
+    /// restart reminder. Other work remains under the bounded drain deadline.
     ///
     /// Single source of truth shared by every shutdown-timing surface that must stay in
     /// lockstep (netclaw-dev/netclaw#1664, #1665):
@@ -48,7 +47,7 @@ public sealed record DaemonConfig
     /// SIGKILL race the daemon could not win (evidence: a production daemon force-killed ~100ms
     /// from a clean exit).
     /// </summary>
-    public static readonly TimeSpan GracefulShutdownBudget = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(200);
+    public static readonly TimeSpan GracefulShutdownBudget = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30);
 
     /// <summary>
     /// Safety margin subtracted from <see cref="GracefulShutdownBudget"/> to produce
diff --git a/src/Netclaw.Daemon.Tests/Services/DaemonRestartCoordinatorTests.cs b/src/Netclaw.Daemon.Tests/Services/DaemonRestartCoordinatorTests.cs
index dcd5abe2d..7eb1a3a38 100644
--- a/src/Netclaw.Daemon.Tests/Services/DaemonRestartCoordinatorTests.cs
+++ b/src/Netclaw.Daemon.Tests/Services/DaemonRestartCoordinatorTests.cs
@@ -215,14 +215,9 @@ public async Task SessionDrainHelper_propagates_caller_cancellation()
     [Fact]
     public async Task SessionDrainHelper_daemon_stop_bound_times_out_instead_of_hanging_when_a_session_never_acks()
     {
-        // Mirrors the daemon-stop CoordinatedShutdown drain task wired in Program.cs
-        // (netclaw-dev/netclaw#1664): a session whose in-flight turn is parked on interactive
-        // tool approval never acks PrepareForDaemonRestart. Previously this call passed
-        // CancellationToken.None for the operation token and hung until Akka's own 200s
-        // before-service-unbind phase timeout abandoned the task. The bounded CTS below —
-        // sized from DaemonConfig.BoundedDrainTimeout (GracefulShutdownBudget minus
-        // DrainSafetyMargin) and driven by TimeProvider exactly as Program.cs constructs it —
-        // must make the drain complete with a timed-out result well before that.
+        // This test mirrors the daemon-stop drain task in Program.cs. A session task can
+        // ignore cancellation and fail to acknowledge drain. The bounded CTS must end the
+        // drain before Akka's phase timeout abandons the task.
         var time = new FakeTimeProvider();
         var activeIds = new[] { "slack/approval-parked" };
         var drain = new DrainControl(activeIds, activeIds); // never acknowledged
diff --git a/src/Netclaw.Daemon/Program.cs b/src/Netclaw.Daemon/Program.cs
index 4a5b05010..78a569acf 100644
--- a/src/Netclaw.Daemon/Program.cs
+++ b/src/Netclaw.Daemon/Program.cs
@@ -1065,11 +1065,9 @@ static void ConfigureDaemonServices(
     {
         // Prevent coordinated shutdown from calling Environment.Exit(),
         // which would kill the process before the restart loop can iterate.
-        // The before-service-unbind phase needs a generous timeout (DaemonConfig.
-        // GracefulShutdownBudget) because sessions mid-LLM-call (TurnLlmTimeout defaults to
-        // 3 minutes) must finish before passivation can begin. See DaemonConfig.
-        // GracefulShutdownBudget remarks for the full set of surfaces this must stay in
-        // lockstep with.
+        // The before-service-unbind phase gives session drain time to confirm model
+        // cancellation and write restart reminders. DaemonConfig keeps this phase,
+        // the CLI wait, and the systemd stop timeout in order.
         akkaBuilder.AddHocon(
             DaemonShutdownConfiguration.BuildCoordinatedShutdownHocon(DaemonConfig.GracefulShutdownBudget),
             HoconAddMode.Prepend);
@@ -1120,8 +1118,7 @@ static void ConfigureDaemonServices(
             // Runs in an early CoordinatedShutdown phase while actors are still alive.
             // If DaemonRestartCoordinator already drained sessions (config reload), the ingress
             // gate will be closed and this task skips its drain to avoid double-draining.
-            // The phase timeout (DaemonConfig.GracefulShutdownBudget) is generous because
-            // sessions mid-LLM-call must finish before passivation can begin.
+            // The phase timeout lets sessions confirm model cancellation before passivation.
             var cs = CoordinatedShutdown.Get(system);
             var sessionManager = registry.Get<SessionManagerActorKey>();
             var ingressGate = sp.GetRequiredService<SessionIngressGate>();
@@ -1144,8 +1141,8 @@ static void ConfigureDaemonServices(
                     // the phase timeout itself fires and abandons this task outright.
                     // netclaw-dev/netclaw#1664: a session parked on interactive tool approval
                     // never acks PrepareForDaemonRestart, so an unbounded wait here (previously
-                    // CancellationToken.None, CancellationToken.None) hung for the full 200s
-                    // phase timeout with no timeout of its own, leaking the abandoned drain task.
+                    // CancellationToken.None, CancellationToken.None) had left the drain task
+                    // active until the phase timeout, with no separate drain deadline.
                     using var drainDeadlineCts = new CancellationTokenSource(DaemonConfig.BoundedDrainTimeout, tp);
 
                     var drainResult = await SessionDrainHelper.DrainAsync(