diff --git a/.changeset/7092-launcher-exclusion-reason.md b/.changeset/7092-launcher-exclusion-reason.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..19513e04b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/7092-launcher-exclusion-reason.md
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+---
+---
+
+Corrects the `PALETTE_EXCLUSIONS` reason string for `app:launcher` in the Studio
+page-palette ledger. It read "shell singleton — the app shell renders it, not a page",
+and objectui#7091 registered a real `app:launcher` renderer, so a page can now render it
+and the "not a page" clause became false. The reason now reads "shell singleton — lives
+in the app shell chrome", mirroring the neutral form its sibling `global:notifications`
+has carried since objectui#6757 shipped that type a renderer without its wording rotting:
+the entry describes WHERE the thing lives, not whether a renderer exists, so a later
+renderer cannot falsify it.
+
+The exclusion itself is an unchanged decision — `app:launcher` stays out of the page
+palette, and its key and position in the ledger are untouched. Whether it should become
+palette-authorable is a separate product question this does not answer. No published
+behaviour moves: the reason strings are developer-facing ledger prose, read by no runtime
+code path, and `PALETTE_EXCLUSIONS` is not exported from `@object-ui/app-shell`'s entry.
diff --git a/packages/app-shell/src/views/metadata-admin/previews/block-types.ts b/packages/app-shell/src/views/metadata-admin/previews/block-types.ts
index 4e2990665e..186b4a2de8 100644
--- a/packages/app-shell/src/views/metadata-admin/previews/block-types.ts
+++ b/packages/app-shell/src/views/metadata-admin/previews/block-types.ts
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ export const BLOCK_TYPE_META: Record<BlockTypeId, Omit<BlockTypeMeta, 'id'>> = {
  */
 export const PALETTE_EXCLUSIONS: Record<string, string> = {
   // Shell singletons — chrome the app shell owns, not page content.
-  'app:launcher': 'shell singleton — the app shell renders it, not a page',
+  'app:launcher': 'shell singleton — lives in the app shell chrome',
   'global:notifications': 'shell singleton — lives in the app shell header',
   'user:profile': 'shell singleton — lives in the app shell header',
   // No renderer, by decision — and these two are the ones that MEASURE that way.