diff --git a/crates/cm-api/src/routes/missions.rs b/crates/cm-api/src/routes/missions.rs
index eda9d5f..3b10915 100644
--- a/crates/cm-api/src/routes/missions.rs
+++ b/crates/cm-api/src/routes/missions.rs
@@ -1068,6 +1068,24 @@ async fn reap_mission_resources(state: &AppState, mission_id: Uuid) {
         }
     }
 
+    // 6. The captured outputs. `mission_gc` keeps `_outputs/<id>` for 90 days
+    //    because they are artifacts a user can still open — but once the
+    //    mission row is gone so are its `mission_artifacts`, and nothing can
+    //    open them. Found on 2026-09-14 as 163 orphaned directories on prod,
+    //    the newest belonging to a mission deleted twenty minutes earlier.
+    let outputs = crate::mission_workspace::missions_root()
+        .join("_outputs")
+        .join(mission_id.to_string());
+    if outputs.is_dir() {
+        if let Err(e) = tokio::fs::remove_dir_all(&outputs).await {
+            eprintln!(
+                "missions::delete: remove {} failed (continuing; mission_gc will reap it in \
+                 90 days): {e}",
+                outputs.display()
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
     // Say what actually happened. `failed > 0` means the mission row is about to
     // be deleted while its claws survive with nothing left pointing at them —
     // the orphan case, and the only way to notice it after the fact.