diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 9607ff1ae..32d723456 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@
     "check:evidence-integrity": "tsx scripts/check-evidence-integrity.ts",
     "check:maestro-release-gate-events": "tsx scripts/check-maestro-release-gate-events.ts",
     "check:scenario-replay-gate": "node scripts/run-scenario-replay-gate.mjs",
-    "check:workflow-footguns": "node scripts/check-workflow-footguns.mjs",
+    "check:removed-ts-tui": "node ./scripts/check-removed-ts-tui-refs.mjs",
+    "check:workflow-footguns": "node scripts/check-workflow-footguns.mjs && npm run check:removed-ts-tui",
     "check:test-skip-hygiene": "node scripts/check-test-skip-hygiene.mjs",
     "check:test-timing-wait-hygiene": "node scripts/check-test-timing-wait-hygiene.mjs",
     "check:atomic-write-hygiene": "node scripts/check-atomic-write-hygiene.mjs",
diff --git a/packages/tui-rs/src/app/command_handlers.rs b/packages/tui-rs/src/app/command_handlers.rs
index d849c6bb9..5ce01ce22 100644
--- a/packages/tui-rs/src/app/command_handlers.rs
+++ b/packages/tui-rs/src/app/command_handlers.rs
@@ -1213,7 +1213,7 @@ impl App {
             }
             A2aAction::Accept { code } => {
                 self.state.add_system_message(format!(
-                    "A2A pairing code captured ({} chars). Run `maestro a2a accept <code>` or use the TypeScript TUI `/a2a accept <code>` to persist it in the shared registry.",
+                    "A2A pairing code captured ({} chars). Run `maestro a2a accept <code>` Persist it with `/a2a accept <code>` in this TUI, or `maestro a2a accept <code>` from the CLI.",
                     code.len()
                 ));
             }
diff --git a/scripts/check-removed-ts-tui-refs.mjs b/scripts/check-removed-ts-tui-refs.mjs
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..e33b5904a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/check-removed-ts-tui-refs.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+/**
+ * Fail if the removed TypeScript TUI reappears in live code paths or nx graph.
+ */
+import { readdirSync, readFileSync, statSync } from "node:fs";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+
+const root = process.cwd();
+const bannedExact = ["@evalops/tui", "packages/tui/", "src/cli-tui/", "../tui/"];
+const bannedProjectNames = new Set(["tui"]);
+
+function walk(dir, out = []) {
+  for (const name of readdirSync(dir)) {
+    if (name === "node_modules" || name === "target" || name === "dist" || name === ".git") continue;
+    const p = join(dir, name);
+    const st = statSync(p);
+    if (st.isDirectory()) walk(p, out);
+    else out.push(p);
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+const roots = ["packages", "src", "scripts", ".github", "project.json", "package.json", "nx.json"].map((r) => join(root, r));
+const files = [];
+for (const r of roots) {
+  try {
+    const st = statSync(r);
+    if (st.isDirectory()) walk(r, files);
+    else files.push(r);
+  } catch {
+    // missing ok
+  }
+}
+
+const offenders = [];
+for (const file of files) {
+  if (!/\.(json|yml|yaml|ts|tsx|js|mjs|cjs|toml|rs|Dockerfile|dockerfile)$/i.test(file) && !file.endsWith("Dockerfile")) continue;
+  if (file.includes("/test/scripts/install-smoke") || file.includes("/test/scripts/smoke-published") || file.includes("/test/scripts/verify-published")) continue;
+  if (file.includes("/test/testing/auto-verify")) continue;
+  if (file.endsWith("check-removed-ts-tui-refs.mjs")) continue;
+  if (file.includes("prepare-public-release-mirror.mjs")) continue;
+  if (file.includes("check-public-mirror")) continue;
+  if (file.includes("sync-public-companion")) continue;
+  if (file.includes("sync-release-mirror")) continue;
+  let text;
+  try {
+    text = readFileSync(file, "utf8");
+  } catch {
+    continue;
+  }
+  for (const b of bannedExact) {
+    if (!text.includes(b)) continue;
+    if (b === "packages/tui/") {
+      const re = /packages\/tui(?!-rs)/g;
+      if (!re.test(text)) continue;
+    }
+    offenders.push(`${file}: contains ${b}`);
+  }
+  if (file.endsWith("project.json")) {
+    try {
+      const j = JSON.parse(text);
+      for (const d of j.implicitDependencies || []) {
+        if (bannedProjectNames.has(d)) offenders.push(`${file}: implicitDependencies includes removed project '${d}'`);
+      }
+    } catch {
+      // ignore
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+if (offenders.length) {
+  console.error("Removed TypeScript TUI references found:");
+  for (const o of offenders) console.error(" -", o);
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+console.log("check-removed-ts-tui-refs: ok");
diff --git a/scripts/prepare-public-release-mirror.mjs b/scripts/prepare-public-release-mirror.mjs
index 81fd9449b..f5389310e 100644
--- a/scripts/prepare-public-release-mirror.mjs
+++ b/scripts/prepare-public-release-mirror.mjs
@@ -384,6 +384,27 @@ function applyMirrorPlan(sourceRoot, targetRoot, plan) {
 	for (const relativePath of plan.deletedPaths) {
 		rmSync(resolve(targetRoot, relativePath), { force: true });
 	}
+
+	// File deletes leave empty parent directories (e.g. packages/tui/, src/cli-tui/).
+	// Prune empty dirs bottom-up so the public tree does not retain hollow shells.
+	const dirs = new Set();
+	for (const relativePath of plan.deletedPaths) {
+		let dir = dirname(resolve(targetRoot, relativePath));
+		const rootResolved = resolve(targetRoot);
+		while (dir.startsWith(rootResolved) && dir !== rootResolved) {
+			dirs.add(dir);
+			dir = dirname(dir);
+		}
+	}
+	for (const dir of [...dirs].sort((a, b) => b.length - a.length)) {
+		try {
+			if (existsSync(dir) && readdirSync(dir).length === 0) {
+				rmSync(dir, { force: true });
+			}
+		} catch {
+			// ignore races / non-empty
+		}
+	}
 }
 
 function writeReport(path, report) {