diff --git a/src/pages/InboxPanel.jsx b/src/pages/InboxPanel.jsx
index cfac6d2..990b7b8 100644
--- a/src/pages/InboxPanel.jsx
+++ b/src/pages/InboxPanel.jsx
@@ -140,6 +140,11 @@ export function InboxPanel({ onBatchStarted }) {
 
   const submissions = data?.submissions || [];
   const pending = data?.pending_count ?? 0;
+  // Nothing ticked means "Start selected" cannot fire, which makes the two
+  // stage toggles below inert. On a deployment running UPLOAD_AUTORUN=true that
+  // is the permanent state - this inbox never fills - so they stay greyed, which
+  // is exactly the point: they must not read as settings that govern uploads.
+  const stagesIdle = !selected.size;
 
   return (
     <div className="space-y-6">
@@ -150,10 +155,12 @@ export function InboxPanel({ onBatchStarted }) {
               <Inbox className="h-5 w-5 text-amber-500" /> Review Inbox
             </h2>
             <p className="text-xs text-slate-500 leading-relaxed max-w-3xl">
-              Spreadsheets sent in by a colleague through the upload API. Nothing here has run
-              yet &mdash; tick the files you want and press <strong>Start selected</strong> to
-              send them through the 11-stage pipeline as one batch. Files from different drops
-              can go in the same batch.
+              Where spreadsheets wait <strong>when <code className="font-mono">UPLOAD_AUTORUN</code>
+              {' '}is off</strong>. Nothing here has run yet &mdash; tick the files you want and
+              press <strong>Start selected</strong> to send them through the 11-stage pipeline as
+              one batch. Files from different drops can go in the same batch. With autorun on,
+              uploads start on arrival and this stays empty; watch them under{' '}
+              <strong>Dagster Orchestration</strong> instead.
             </p>
           </div>
           <button
@@ -197,34 +204,66 @@ export function InboxPanel({ onBatchStarted }) {
           </span>
         </div>
 
-        {/* Same defaults and the same warning as the batch tab. */}
-        <div className="mt-4 flex flex-col gap-2">
-          <label className="flex items-start gap-2 text-[11px] text-slate-600 cursor-pointer">
-            <input
-              type="checkbox"
-              checked={fetchImages}
-              onChange={(e) => setFetchImages(e.target.checked)}
-              className="mt-0.5 accent-amber-500 cursor-pointer"
-            />
-            <span>
-              <span className="font-bold text-ink-950">Search for product images</span>
-              {' '}&mdash; much slower, and makes outbound requests for every row.
-            </span>
-          </label>
-          <label className="flex items-start gap-2 text-[11px] text-slate-600 cursor-pointer">
-            <input
-              type="checkbox"
-              checked={useLlm}
-              onChange={(e) => setUseLlm(e.target.checked)}
-              className="mt-0.5 accent-amber-500 cursor-pointer"
-            />
-            <span>
-              <span className="font-bold text-ink-950">Use the LLM for missing descriptions</span>
-              {' '}&mdash; fills blank descriptions where an Ollama server is reachable. It is not
-              in production, so rows there simply keep the description the sheet gave them.
-            </span>
-          </label>
-        </div>
+        {/* THESE TWO GOVERN THE MANUAL START ABOVE, AND NOTHING ELSE.
+            An upload that ran itself never passed through here: POST
+            /api/uploads/catalog reads UPLOAD_AUTORUN_FETCH_IMAGES and
+            UPLOAD_AUTORUN_USE_LLM on the server and ignores whatever the
+            request asked for. What a given run actually used is on its own row
+            under Dagster Orchestration -> Recent runs. */}
+        <fieldset
+          disabled={stagesIdle}
+          className={`mt-4 rounded-xl border border-ink-900/10 bg-white p-3 transition ${
+            stagesIdle ? 'opacity-40' : ''
+          }`}
+        >
+          <legend className="px-1 text-[10px] font-bold uppercase tracking-wide text-slate-400">
+            Applies to Start selected
+            {stagesIdle && (
+              <span className="font-normal normal-case"> &mdash; tick a file below first</span>
+            )}
+          </legend>
+          <div className="flex flex-col gap-2">
+            <label
+              className={`flex items-start gap-2 text-[11px] text-slate-600 ${
+                stagesIdle ? 'cursor-not-allowed' : 'cursor-pointer'
+              }`}
+            >
+              <input
+                type="checkbox"
+                checked={fetchImages}
+                disabled={stagesIdle}
+                onChange={(e) => setFetchImages(e.target.checked)}
+                className={`mt-0.5 accent-amber-500 ${
+                  stagesIdle ? 'cursor-not-allowed' : 'cursor-pointer'
+                }`}
+              />
+              <span>
+                <span className="font-bold text-ink-950">Search for product images</span>
+                {' '}&mdash; much slower, and makes outbound requests for every row.
+              </span>
+            </label>
+            <label
+              className={`flex items-start gap-2 text-[11px] text-slate-600 ${
+                stagesIdle ? 'cursor-not-allowed' : 'cursor-pointer'
+              }`}
+            >
+              <input
+                type="checkbox"
+                checked={useLlm}
+                disabled={stagesIdle}
+                onChange={(e) => setUseLlm(e.target.checked)}
+                className={`mt-0.5 accent-amber-500 ${
+                  stagesIdle ? 'cursor-not-allowed' : 'cursor-pointer'
+                }`}
+              />
+              <span>
+                <span className="font-bold text-ink-950">Use the LLM for missing descriptions</span>
+                {' '}&mdash; fills blank descriptions where an Ollama server is reachable. It is not
+                in production, so rows there simply keep the description the sheet gave them.
+              </span>
+            </label>
+          </div>
+        </fieldset>
 
         {notice && (
           <div className="mt-4 rounded-lg bg-emerald-500/5 border border-emerald-500/20 p-3 text-xs text-emerald-700 flex items-start gap-2">
@@ -243,8 +282,13 @@ export function InboxPanel({ onBatchStarted }) {
         <div className="rounded-2xl border border-ink-900/10 bg-paper-50 p-10 text-center">
           <Inbox className="h-8 w-8 text-slate-300 mx-auto mb-3" />
           <p className="text-xs text-slate-500">
-            Nothing waiting. Files sent to <code className="font-mono">/api/uploads/catalog</code>{' '}
-            appear here for review.
+            Nothing waiting &mdash; files sent to{' '}
+            <code className="font-mono">/api/uploads/catalog</code> start on their own and appear
+            under <strong>Dagster Orchestration &rarr; Recent runs</strong>.
+          </p>
+          <p className="text-[11px] text-slate-400 mt-2">
+            Set <code className="font-mono">UPLOAD_AUTORUN=false</code> to hold them here for a
+            decision instead.
           </p>
         </div>
       )}
diff --git a/src/pages/OrchestrationPanel.jsx b/src/pages/OrchestrationPanel.jsx
index 504f732..32d73c9 100644
--- a/src/pages/OrchestrationPanel.jsx
+++ b/src/pages/OrchestrationPanel.jsx
@@ -48,6 +48,16 @@ const FILE_TONE = {
   cancelled: 'bg-ink-100 text-slate-500 border-ink-900/10',
 };
 
+// The two optional network stages, rendered per run under Recent runs. A run
+// that started on its own took these from the SERVER settings
+// (UPLOAD_AUTORUN_FETCH_IMAGES / UPLOAD_AUTORUN_USE_LLM), never from the
+// checkboxes on this page, so reading them back off the manifest is the only
+// honest report of what a colleague's upload actually did.
+const STAGE_FLAGS = [
+  { key: 'fetch_images', label: 'img', title: 'Product image search' },
+  { key: 'use_llm', label: 'llm', title: 'LLM description fill' },
+];
+
 const FILE_ICON = {
   done: CheckCircle2,
   failed: XCircle,
@@ -226,6 +236,11 @@ export function OrchestrationPanel() {
   // orchestrator is not running, or its sensor has not ticked yet.
   const awaitingOrchestrator =
     batch && batch.runner === 'dagster' && batch.status === 'queued';
+  // Nothing ticked means "Start selected" cannot fire, which makes the two
+  // stage toggles below inert. On a deployment running UPLOAD_AUTORUN=true that
+  // is the permanent state - the inbox never fills - so they stay greyed, which
+  // is exactly the point: they must not read as settings that govern uploads.
+  const stagesIdle = !selected.size;
 
   return (
     <div className="space-y-6">
@@ -274,34 +289,66 @@ export function OrchestrationPanel() {
           </span>
         </div>
 
-        {/* Same defaults and the same warnings as the other ingestion tabs. */}
-        <div className="mt-4 flex flex-col gap-2">
-          <label className="flex items-start gap-2 text-[11px] text-slate-600 cursor-pointer">
-            <input
-              type="checkbox"
-              checked={fetchImages}
-              onChange={(e) => setFetchImages(e.target.checked)}
-              className="mt-0.5 accent-amber-500 cursor-pointer"
-            />
-            <span>
-              <span className="font-bold text-ink-950">Search for product images</span>
-              {' '}&mdash; much slower, and makes outbound requests for every row.
-            </span>
-          </label>
-          <label className="flex items-start gap-2 text-[11px] text-slate-600 cursor-pointer">
-            <input
-              type="checkbox"
-              checked={useLlm}
-              onChange={(e) => setUseLlm(e.target.checked)}
-              className="mt-0.5 accent-amber-500 cursor-pointer"
-            />
-            <span>
-              <span className="font-bold text-ink-950">Use the LLM for missing descriptions</span>
-              {' '}&mdash; fills blank descriptions where an Ollama server is reachable. It is not
-              in production, so rows there simply keep the description the sheet gave them.
-            </span>
-          </label>
-        </div>
+        {/* THESE TWO GOVERN THE MANUAL START BELOW, AND NOTHING ELSE.
+            An upload that ran itself never passed through here: POST
+            /api/uploads/catalog reads UPLOAD_AUTORUN_FETCH_IMAGES and
+            UPLOAD_AUTORUN_USE_LLM on the server and ignores whatever the
+            request asked for. What a given run actually used is on its own row
+            under Recent runs. */}
+        <fieldset
+          disabled={stagesIdle}
+          className={`mt-4 rounded-xl border border-ink-900/10 bg-white p-3 transition ${
+            stagesIdle ? 'opacity-40' : ''
+          }`}
+        >
+          <legend className="px-1 text-[10px] font-bold uppercase tracking-wide text-slate-400">
+            Applies to Start selected
+            {stagesIdle && (
+              <span className="font-normal normal-case"> &mdash; tick a file below first</span>
+            )}
+          </legend>
+          <div className="flex flex-col gap-2">
+            <label
+              className={`flex items-start gap-2 text-[11px] text-slate-600 ${
+                stagesIdle ? 'cursor-not-allowed' : 'cursor-pointer'
+              }`}
+            >
+              <input
+                type="checkbox"
+                checked={fetchImages}
+                disabled={stagesIdle}
+                onChange={(e) => setFetchImages(e.target.checked)}
+                className={`mt-0.5 accent-amber-500 ${
+                  stagesIdle ? 'cursor-not-allowed' : 'cursor-pointer'
+                }`}
+              />
+              <span>
+                <span className="font-bold text-ink-950">Search for product images</span>
+                {' '}&mdash; much slower, and makes outbound requests for every row.
+              </span>
+            </label>
+            <label
+              className={`flex items-start gap-2 text-[11px] text-slate-600 ${
+                stagesIdle ? 'cursor-not-allowed' : 'cursor-pointer'
+              }`}
+            >
+              <input
+                type="checkbox"
+                checked={useLlm}
+                disabled={stagesIdle}
+                onChange={(e) => setUseLlm(e.target.checked)}
+                className={`mt-0.5 accent-amber-500 ${
+                  stagesIdle ? 'cursor-not-allowed' : 'cursor-pointer'
+                }`}
+              />
+              <span>
+                <span className="font-bold text-ink-950">Use the LLM for missing descriptions</span>
+                {' '}&mdash; fills blank descriptions where an Ollama server is reachable. It is not
+                in production, so rows there simply keep the description the sheet gave them.
+              </span>
+            </label>
+          </div>
+        </fieldset>
 
         {notice && (
           <div className="mt-4 rounded-lg bg-emerald-500/5 border border-emerald-500/20 p-3 text-xs text-emerald-700 flex items-start gap-2">
@@ -350,6 +397,23 @@ export function OrchestrationPanel() {
                       {run.files_total} file(s)
                       {run.submitted_by ? ` from ${run.submitted_by}` : ''}
                     </span>
+                    {/* Read off the manifest, not assumed from .env, so it stays
+                        true if a setting is changed without a redeploy. */}
+                    <span className="shrink-0 hidden sm:flex items-center gap-1">
+                      {STAGE_FLAGS.map(({ key, label, title }) => (
+                        <span
+                          key={key}
+                          title={`${title}: ${run[key] ? 'ran' : 'skipped'}`}
+                          className={`px-1.5 py-0.5 rounded border font-mono text-[10px] font-bold ${
+                            run[key]
+                              ? 'border-amber-500/20 bg-amber-500/10 text-amber-700'
+                              : 'border-ink-900/10 bg-paper-100 text-slate-400 line-through'
+                          }`}
+                        >
+                          {label}
+                        </span>
+                      ))}
+                    </span>
                     <span
                       className={`shrink-0 px-2 py-0.5 rounded-md border text-[10px] font-bold ${
                         FILE_TONE[run.status] || FILE_TONE.queued