diff --git a/.github/actions/resolve-config/dispatch-limits.test.mjs b/.github/actions/resolve-config/dispatch-limits.test.mjs
index 22b3ef90d3..04f6e3fa28 100644
--- a/.github/actions/resolve-config/dispatch-limits.test.mjs
+++ b/.github/actions/resolve-config/dispatch-limits.test.mjs
@@ -155,11 +155,19 @@ test("the base config's adoption section lets fix-ci adopt an idle owner PR", as
   owner.commits.nodes[0].commit.committedDate = idle;
   assert.equal(parse(LIVE).adoption["idle-hours"], 2, "the live config adopts a trusted person after 2 hours");
   assert.deepEqual(await run(LIVE, [owner]), { code: 0, dispatched: ["40", "61"] });
-  // Every trusted-actors.json entry is adoptable: the release App, a Bot, at once.
+  // Another trusted Bot is adoptable at once (a Bot never waits out idle-hours).
+  const bot = ciFixPull(64);
+  bot.author = { __typename: "Bot", databaseId: 209825114 };
+  bot.updatedAt = "2026-10-17T11:59:00Z";
+  assert.deepEqual(await run(LIVE, [bot]), { code: 0, dispatched: ["40", "64"] });
+  // The release and standards-sync Apps' PRs carry generated or synced files a lane commit breaks: never adopted.
   const release = ciFixPull(65);
   release.author = { __typename: "Bot", databaseId: 337859524 };
   release.updatedAt = "2026-10-17T11:59:00Z";
-  assert.deepEqual(await run(LIVE, [release]), { code: 0, dispatched: ["40", "65"] });
+  assert.deepEqual(await run(LIVE, [release]), { code: 0, dispatched: ["40"] });
+  const sync = ciFixPull(68);
+  sync.author = { __typename: "Bot", databaseId: 300666570 };
+  assert.deepEqual(await run(LIVE, [sync]), { code: 0, dispatched: ["40"] });
   // Dependabot's red PR is review-dependency's, never fix-ci's.
   const dependabot = ciFixPull(67);
   dependabot.author = { __typename: "Bot", databaseId: 49699333 };
diff --git a/.github/scripts/pr-unblock/dispatch.mjs b/.github/scripts/pr-unblock/dispatch.mjs
index bffcfe29fb..d42ee4245b 100644
--- a/.github/scripts/pr-unblock/dispatch.mjs
+++ b/.github/scripts/pr-unblock/dispatch.mjs
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ import { emptyRecord, isHandled, markHandled, pruneRecord, readRecord, RUN_ID, s
 import { laneReader, withLaneBinding } from "./address-feedback.mjs";
 import { prHold, reviewReader } from "./gate-source.mjs";
 import { runTitle, shareWorkflowRuns } from "./feedback-dispatch.mjs";
-import { DEFAULTS as CI_FIX_DEFAULTS, dispatchCiFixes, humanGatedLabel } from "./fix-ci-dispatch.mjs";
+import { adoptableOwnerIds, DEFAULTS as CI_FIX_DEFAULTS, dispatchCiFixes, humanGatedLabel } from "./fix-ci-dispatch.mjs";
 import { TRACKER_BINDING_PATH, trackerBindingText } from "../pr-merge/merge-holds.mjs";
 import { HISTORY_QUERY as DOCS_FIX_HISTORY_QUERY } from "./fix-docs-dispatch.mjs";
 import { anyHandles, cappedAt, headLagStop, laneStop, limitStop, pendingStop, permanentlyHandles, releasedBy, stopRelease } from "./limit-stop.mjs";
@@ -884,15 +884,15 @@ async function dispatchAll(env, { client, sleep, log, loadLimits, loadAdoption,
   // human-gated label is read only when owners are adopted; an unreadable
   // tracker config holds the adopted owner PRs alone, as a failure.
   // With `adoption.idle-hours` set (as pr-merge requires), every account on
-  // the base's trusted-actors list is adoptable, by id, but Dependabot:
-  // review-dependency owns its red PRs.
+  // the base's trusted-actors list is adoptable, by id, but the bot authors
+  // fix-ci-dispatch.mjs adoptableOwnerIds leaves out.
   let fixes = { dispatched: [], failed: 1 };
   let ownerIds = [];
   let holdLabels = CI_FIX_DEFAULTS.holdLabels;
   let ownersHeld = "";
   if (adoption["idle-hours"] !== undefined) {
     try {
-      ownerIds = [...loadTrustedList(`${basePath(env)}/${TRUSTED_ACTORS_PATH}`).ids].filter((id) => id !== DEPENDABOT_ID);
+      ownerIds = adoptableOwnerIds(loadTrustedList(`${basePath(env)}/${TRUSTED_ACTORS_PATH}`).ids);
       holdLabels = [...new Set([...holdLabels, baseHumanGatedLabel(env)])];
     } catch (error) {
       log(`::error::cannot read the base trusted-actors list or the human-gated label from the base tracker binding (${error.message}); no adopted PR gets fix-ci`);
diff --git a/.github/scripts/pr-unblock/fix-ci-dispatch.mjs b/.github/scripts/pr-unblock/fix-ci-dispatch.mjs
index 8121d49adf..9aa17f9bb1 100644
--- a/.github/scripts/pr-unblock/fix-ci-dispatch.mjs
+++ b/.github/scripts/pr-unblock/fix-ci-dispatch.mjs
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ import { postingAttempt } from "../../actions/report-check-run/posting-run.mjs";
 import { emptyRecord, isHandled, markHandled, sendDispatch } from "./dispatch-record.mjs";
 import { STOP_RESOLVED } from "./escalation-routes.mjs";
 import { HOLD_LINE, runTitle } from "./feedback-dispatch.mjs";
+import { DEFAULTS as DOCS_FIX_DEFAULTS } from "./fix-docs-dispatch.mjs";
 import { failingChecks } from "./fix-ci-context.mjs";
 import { prHold, reviewReader } from "./gate-source.mjs";
 import { HEAD_LAG_STOP, KILL_SWITCH_STOP, killSwitchStop, laneStop, releasesHead } from "./limit-stop.mjs";
@@ -95,6 +96,15 @@ const HELD_SKIP = "Skipped: awaiting-human";
 
 const MAX_PAGES = 20;
 
+// The trusted accounts whose idle PRs fix-ci adopts: every one but the authors
+// fix-docs also leaves alone (Dependabot, whose red PRs review-dependency owns;
+// the release and standards-sync Apps, whose PRs carry generated or synced
+// files that a lane commit breaks: check-managed-files refuses a sync PR
+// commit by any other author).
+export function adoptableOwnerIds(trustedIds, excludedAuthorIds = DOCS_FIX_DEFAULTS.excludedAuthorIds) {
+  return [...trustedIds].filter((id) => !excludedAuthorIds.includes(id));
+}
+
 // The tracker's human-gated label from the binding's JSON text, as
 // pr-merge.yml resolves it: config.role_labels["human-gated"] trimmed, or
 // needs-human when the file is absent (null) or maps none. Invalid JSON throws.
diff --git a/.github/scripts/pr-unblock/fix-ci-dispatch.test.mjs b/.github/scripts/pr-unblock/fix-ci-dispatch.test.mjs
index 3b66000f48..4a1d4fd013 100644
--- a/.github/scripts/pr-unblock/fix-ci-dispatch.test.mjs
+++ b/.github/scripts/pr-unblock/fix-ci-dispatch.test.mjs
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import { createGitHubApi, LIST_QUERY } from "./dispatch.mjs";
 import { failingChecks } from "./gate-source.mjs";
 import { emptyRecord, isHandled } from "./dispatch-record.mjs";
 import { RERUN_DUE_MINUTES } from "../maintenance-reconcile-lost-runs/infra-failure.mjs";
-import { DEFAULTS, dispatchCiFixes, humanGatedLabel, skipReason, staleStop } from "./fix-ci-dispatch.mjs";
+import { adoptableOwnerIds, DEFAULTS, dispatchCiFixes, humanGatedLabel, skipReason, staleStop } from "./fix-ci-dispatch.mjs";
 
 // The lanes App bot's user id and the GitHub Actions app id
 // (.github/standards/trusted-actors/trusted-actors.json; dispatch.mjs).
@@ -1552,3 +1552,13 @@ test("a fix-ci stop is left on a head with a check failing or going, a run since
   const older = await run({ pages: [[settled(green)]], workflowRuns: [{ id: 2, status: "completed", display_title: "pr-unblock fix-ci #9", created_at: "2026-10-22T10:00:00Z" }] });
   assert.equal(older.api.calls.dispatch.length, 1);
 });
+
+test("adoption leaves out Dependabot and the release and standards-sync Apps, whose PRs a lane commit breaks", () => {
+  const trusted = JSON.parse(readFileSync(new URL("../../standards/trusted-actors/trusted-actors.json", import.meta.url), "utf8"));
+  const ids = trusted.actors.map((actor) => actor.id);
+  const adopted = adoptableOwnerIds(new Set(ids));
+  const excluded = [49699333, 337859524, 300666570];
+  assert.ok(excluded.every((id) => ids.includes(id)));
+  assert.deepEqual(adopted, ids.filter((id) => !excluded.includes(id)));
+  assert.ok(adopted.includes(APP));
+});