diff --git a/bin/ccam.js b/bin/ccam.js
index b7426be2..1c01e94c 100755
--- a/bin/ccam.js
+++ b/bin/ccam.js
@@ -1454,7 +1454,10 @@ async function cmdService(sub, flags) {
       console.error(c.red("✖ client/dist is missing — build it first: npm run build"));
       process.exit(1);
     }
-    const env = { NODE_ENV: "production" };
+    // systemd --user units get systemd's own minimal PATH, not the shell's —
+    // without forwarding it, the server can't find `claude`/`codex` when
+    // spawning lanes even though they're on the installer's PATH.
+    const env = { NODE_ENV: "production", PATH: process.env.PATH || "" };
     if (flags.port) env.DASHBOARD_PORT = String(flags.port);
     const result = svc.installUserService({
       name,
@@ -1834,12 +1837,18 @@ async function cmdLanesLifecycle(action, args) {
  * ALIAS — which is most of them, ship-feature's skill says `tests`, `booting`,
  * `ship`, `gate-blocked` — is not a node id, so indexOf answers -1 and every
  * detection, however far behind, reads as leading.
+ *
+ * `>=`, not `>`: a lane that has never declared anything is RENDERED at its
+ * detected node by the server (`inferredDisplayStage`), so detection and the
+ * `current` node are the same one — and for that lane this badge is the only
+ * readout of what it is doing. A declared lane can never tie, because
+ * recordDetection refuses a detection that isn't strictly ahead of it.
  */
 function detectionLeadsDeclaration(l) {
   if (!l.detected_stage) return false;
   const nodes = l.pipeline_nodes || [];
   return (
-    nodes.findIndex((n) => n.id === l.detected_stage) >
+    nodes.findIndex((n) => n.id === l.detected_stage) >=
     nodes.findIndex((n) => n.state === "current")
   );
 }
diff --git a/scripts/plugin-bootstrap.js b/scripts/plugin-bootstrap.js
index 8b001673..4a5f7f78 100644
--- a/scripts/plugin-bootstrap.js
+++ b/scripts/plugin-bootstrap.js
@@ -480,6 +480,9 @@ function bootstrap(rt = runtimeDir(), { force = false } = {}) {
               NODE_ENV: "production",
               NODE_PATH: path.join(rt, "node_modules"),
               DASHBOARD_CLIENT_DIST: path.join(rt, "client-dist"),
+              // systemd --user units get systemd's own minimal PATH, not the
+              // shell's — forward it so the server can find `claude`/`codex`.
+              PATH: process.env.PATH || "",
             },
           })
         : "unavailable";