diff --git a/agents/console/server.mjs b/agents/console/server.mjs
index 84d0a21..701bf88 100644
--- a/agents/console/server.mjs
+++ b/agents/console/server.mjs
@@ -493,8 +493,15 @@ async function runDesignTask(task) {
 
   // Pre-flight: the auto-publish commit is scoped to GIT_SCOPE, so a dirty tree
   // would get swept into this task's commit. Refuse rather than clobber WIP.
+  // Uploaded assets under app/public/media/ are expected (they're this task's
+  // images) and get committed with it, so they don't count as "dirty".
   const pre = await git(["status", "--porcelain", "--", ...GIT_SCOPE]);
-  if (pre.tail.trim() !== "") {
+  const dirty = pre.tail
+    .split("\n")
+    .map((l) => l.slice(3).trim()) // strip the "XY " status prefix
+    .filter(Boolean)
+    .filter((p) => !p.startsWith("app/public/media/"));
+  if (dirty.length) {
     return { ok: false, error: "Working tree wasn't clean — commit or discard pending changes before running the queue." };
   }