diff --git a/fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/msg/MessageService.java b/fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/msg/MessageService.java
index 3a722a3..04ebc21 100644
--- a/fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/msg/MessageService.java
+++ b/fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/msg/MessageService.java
@@ -1317,6 +1317,27 @@ public final class MessageService {
         return new TaskView(ticket, Phase.FAILED, null, null, detail, null);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Test seam only — carries no production behaviour, and nothing in this class calls it;
+     * {@link #pruneTerminalTickets} still reads {@link Task#completedNanos} directly.
+     *
+     * <p>Reports whether {@code ticket}'s completion hook (the {@code whenComplete} registered in
+     * {@link Task}'s constructor) has actually run yet. Exists because {@link #poll} can report
+     * {@link Phase#DONE} for a ticket before that hook fires: {@code CompletableFuture.complete()}
+     * publishes its result and only afterwards runs dependent actions such as {@code whenComplete}
+     * (fleetd #399), so a caller that observes the future done via {@link #poll} is not thereby
+     * guaranteed to also observe {@link Task#completedNanos} stamped. A test that must order both
+     * events — e.g. before advancing an injected clock past the TTL, to avoid stamping the
+     * *advanced* time and masking a real eviction bug — waits on this instead of on
+     * {@link Phase#DONE}.
+     *
+     * @return {@code false} for an unknown ticket or one whose completion hook has not run yet
+     */
+    boolean isCompletionStampedForTest(String ticket) {
+        Task task = tasks.get(ticket);
+        return task != null && task.completedNanos != null;
+    }
+
     /** Best-effort live worker status for a pending poll; never throws (a lookup error is just noise). */
     private String liveStatus(String target) {
         try {
diff --git a/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/msg/MessageServiceTest.java b/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/msg/MessageServiceTest.java
index 23c9b70..60f1470 100644
--- a/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/msg/MessageServiceTest.java
+++ b/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/msg/MessageServiceTest.java
@@ -1917,6 +1917,12 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
             // Only now does it reply. Under the old clock this reply was born already expired.
             assertTrue(rendezvous.resolve(T, "the long report"));
             awaitTicketPhaseOn(wiring.service(), slow, MessageService.Phase.DONE);
+            // #399: same barrier fix as the sibling eviction test, for consistency — this test's
+            // own assertion happens to survive a late stamp today (the clock is not advanced any
+            // further between here and the sweep below, so cutoff cannot move past whichever
+            // value completedNanos ends up stamped with), but DONE is still the wrong thing to
+            // order on before a sweep that matters for the TTL.
+            awaitCompletionStamped(wiring.service(), slow);
 
             // A second delegation runs pruneTerminalTickets before it returns.
             wiring.service().sendAsync(T, "an unrelated second task");
@@ -1946,6 +1952,11 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
             injectDelivery();
             assertTrue(rendezvous.resolve(T, "quick result"));
             awaitTicketPhaseOn(wiring.service(), done, MessageService.Phase.DONE);
+            // #399: DONE can be observed before the completion hook stamps completedNanos. Wait
+            // for the real stamp before advancing the clock, or the hook can run late and stamp
+            // the ADVANCED time — making cutoff = advanced - TTL unreachable and hiding the very
+            // eviction this test exists to pin.
+            awaitCompletionStamped(wiring.service(), done);
 
             // Nobody collected it, and the TTL has now passed since it FINISHED.
             clock.addAndGet(MessageService.TICKET_TTL_NANOS + TimeUnit.SECONDS.toNanos(1));
@@ -1990,6 +2001,25 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
         return view;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * fleetd #399: waits until {@code ticket}'s completion hook has actually stamped
+     * {@code completedNanos}, not just until {@link MessageService#poll} reports
+     * {@link MessageService.Phase#DONE} for it. {@code poll} can observe {@code DONE} the instant
+     * the task's future resolves, before the {@code whenComplete} hook that stamps the completion
+     * time has run — {@code CompletableFuture.complete()} publishes its result and only then runs
+     * dependents. A test that is about to advance an injected clock past the TTL must order itself
+     * after the stamp, not after {@code DONE}: winning the race the other way stamps the
+     * *advanced* clock value and can hide a real eviction bug behind a false pass.
+     */
+    private void awaitCompletionStamped(MessageService svc, String ticket) throws Exception {
+        long deadline = System.currentTimeMillis() + 3000;
+        while (!svc.isCompletionStampedForTest(ticket)) {
+            assertTrue(System.currentTimeMillis() < deadline,
+                    "completedNanos for " + ticket + " was never stamped");
+            Thread.sleep(5);
+        }
+    }
+
     // --- CB-640: fleet health evidence accessors --------------------------------------------
 
     @Test