diff --git a/crates/ml/src/cuda_pipeline/gpu_dqn_trainer.rs b/crates/ml/src/cuda_pipeline/gpu_dqn_trainer.rs
index 09b617c58..1b15d7c2a 100644
--- a/crates/ml/src/cuda_pipeline/gpu_dqn_trainer.rs
+++ b/crates/ml/src/cuda_pipeline/gpu_dqn_trainer.rs
@@ -1663,6 +1663,10 @@ pub struct GpuDqnTrainer {
     /// Last effective cql_alpha applied (base × (1−regime_stability) × health).
     /// Populated by apply_cql_gradient. Initialized to 0.0.
     pub(crate) last_cql_alpha_eff: f32,
+
+    /// Last effective tau value (cosine-annealed, potentially floored by 0.01×(1-health)).
+    /// Populated by `apply_health_coupled_tau_floor`. Initialized to 0.0.
+    pub(crate) last_tau_eff: f32,
 }
 
 impl GpuDqnTrainer {
@@ -7442,6 +7446,7 @@ impl GpuDqnTrainer {
             tau_final,
             tau_anneal_steps,
             last_cql_alpha_eff: 0.0,
+            last_tau_eff: 0.0,
         })
     }
 
@@ -7623,6 +7628,22 @@ impl GpuDqnTrainer {
         }
     }
 
+    /// B2/G3: Apply a health-coupled minimum to a scheduled tau value.
+    /// Returns `max(tau_scheduled, 0.01 * (1.0 - health))`. During collapse
+    /// (health≈0), the floor rises to 0.01 to accelerate target-network adaptation.
+    /// Caches the effective value for HEALTH_DIAG logging.
+    pub fn apply_health_coupled_tau_floor(&mut self, tau_scheduled: f64) -> f64 {
+        let health = if self.isv_signals_pinned.is_null() {
+            0.5_f32
+        } else {
+            unsafe { (*self.isv_signals_pinned.add(LEARNING_HEALTH_INDEX)).clamp(0.0, 1.0) }
+        };
+        let tau_floor = (0.01 * (1.0 - health)) as f64;
+        let tau_eff = tau_scheduled.max(tau_floor);
+        self.last_tau_eff = tau_eff as f32;
+        tau_eff
+    }
+
     // ── A3: LearningHealth signal writers / readers ───────────────────────
 
     /// Write a scalar into the ISV pinned buffer at the given index.
diff --git a/crates/ml/src/trainers/dqn/fused_training.rs b/crates/ml/src/trainers/dqn/fused_training.rs
index 7a20ded1c..94c82e158 100644
--- a/crates/ml/src/trainers/dqn/fused_training.rs
+++ b/crates/ml/src/trainers/dqn/fused_training.rs
@@ -1168,12 +1168,13 @@ impl FusedTrainingCtx {
         // EMA target update — adaptive tau based on Q-divergence.
         {
             let dqn = agent.primary_dqn_mut();
-            let tau = compute_cosine_annealed_tau(
+            let tau_scheduled = compute_cosine_annealed_tau(
                 dqn.get_training_steps(),
                 dqn.config.tau,
                 dqn.config.tau_final,
                 dqn.config.tau_anneal_steps,
             );
+            let tau = self.trainer.apply_health_coupled_tau_floor(tau_scheduled);
             // Use cosine-annealed tau directly — fully deterministic.
             // Adaptive tau (from q_divergence) was removed because q_divergence
             // uses atomicAdd in the C51 loss kernel, introducing non-determinism
@@ -1428,12 +1429,13 @@ impl FusedTrainingCtx {
                 ).map_err(|e| anyhow::anyhow!("IQN trunk gradient: {e}"))?;
 
                 let dqn = agent.primary_dqn_mut();
-                let tau = compute_cosine_annealed_tau(
+                let tau_scheduled = compute_cosine_annealed_tau(
                     dqn.get_training_steps(),
                     dqn.config.tau,
                     dqn.config.tau_final,
                     dqn.config.tau_anneal_steps,
                 );
+                let tau = self.trainer.apply_health_coupled_tau_floor(tau_scheduled);
                 iqn.target_ema_update(tau as f32)
                     .map_err(|e| anyhow::anyhow!("IQN EMA update: {e}"))?;
 
@@ -1829,23 +1831,25 @@ impl FusedTrainingCtx {
             iqn.increment_adam_step();
             // Update IQN tau via stable host address
             let dqn = agent.primary_dqn_mut();
-            let tau = compute_cosine_annealed_tau(
+            let tau_scheduled = compute_cosine_annealed_tau(
                 dqn.get_training_steps(),
                 dqn.config.tau,
                 dqn.config.tau_final,
                 dqn.config.tau_anneal_steps,
             );
+            let tau = self.trainer.apply_health_coupled_tau_floor(tau_scheduled);
             iqn.set_tau_host(tau as f32);
         }
         // Update DQN trainer tau via stable host address
         {
             let dqn = agent.primary_dqn_mut();
-            let tau = compute_cosine_annealed_tau(
+            let tau_scheduled = compute_cosine_annealed_tau(
                 dqn.get_training_steps(),
                 dqn.config.tau,
                 dqn.config.tau_final,
                 dqn.config.tau_anneal_steps,
             );
+            let tau = self.trainer.apply_health_coupled_tau_floor(tau_scheduled);
             self.trainer.set_tau_value(tau as f32);
         }
     }
@@ -2189,6 +2193,11 @@ impl FusedTrainingCtx {
         self.trainer.last_cql_alpha_eff
     }
 
+    /// Last effective tau (cosine-annealed, potentially health-floored).
+    pub(crate) fn last_tau_eff(&self) -> f32 {
+        self.trainer.last_tau_eff
+    }
+
     /// Compute spectral gap on the last Q readback slice (coarse max/min ratio proxy).
     pub(crate) fn compute_q_spectral_gap(&self) -> f32 {
         self.trainer.compute_q_spectral_gap()
diff --git a/crates/ml/src/trainers/dqn/trainer/training_loop.rs b/crates/ml/src/trainers/dqn/trainer/training_loop.rs
index f42935e0b..3326f3da2 100644
--- a/crates/ml/src/trainers/dqn/trainer/training_loop.rs
+++ b/crates/ml/src/trainers/dqn/trainer/training_loop.rs
@@ -1863,6 +1863,11 @@ impl DQNTrainer {
                 self.last_cql_alpha_eff = Some(fused.last_cql_alpha_eff());
             }
 
+            // B2/G3: propagate last tau_eff for logging.
+            if let Some(ref fused) = self.fused_ctx {
+                self.last_tau_eff = Some(fused.last_tau_eff());
+            }
+
             // HEALTH_DIAG: components are [0, 1] normalized. effective = hyperparams after health-adaptation. novels = mechanism states.
             tracing::info!(
                 "HEALTH_DIAG[{}]: health={:.2} components [q_gap={:.2} q_var={:.2} atoms={:.2} grad_stable={:.2} ens_agree={:.2} grad_cos={:.2} spectral={:.2}] effective [cql_alpha={:.4} iqn_budget={:.2} cql_budget={:.2} c51_budget={:.2} tau={:.5} sarsa_tau={:.2} gamma={:.3} cf_ratio={:.2}] novels [distill={} barrier={:.3} plasticity={} ib={:.3} ensemble_collapse={:.2} contrarian={} meta_q_pred={:.2}]",