diff --git a/docs/.generated/config-baseline.sha256 b/docs/.generated/config-baseline.sha256
index 32b2e75197e..c93d66d7b0d 100644
--- a/docs/.generated/config-baseline.sha256
+++ b/docs/.generated/config-baseline.sha256
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-dbb3d39ddeb8a9ce03459d69774db7e457d33f47c585e0f8c7130b14b92cfcff  config-baseline.json
-2197788a6a1e677fb34a4971ac4f254116c243753452397824e08431f8740aab  config-baseline.core.json
+b095536aeeb273b029a7a96cd8406cbcbc315dfd67dc45f469782ce1ccbc9e08  config-baseline.json
+ab9a004ec78ed51e646be29eb10aa6700de1d47fee77331a85ca5e2cd15b6e93  config-baseline.core.json
 fab66aa304db5697e87259165ad261006719eb6e6cdbd25f957fcba2b7b324e9  config-baseline.channel.json
 c4231c2194206547af8ad94342dc00aadb734f43cb49cc79d4c46bdbb80c3f95  config-baseline.plugin.json
diff --git a/src/config/schema.base.generated.ts b/src/config/schema.base.generated.ts
index ac976270054..28ca39cbc5a 100644
--- a/src/config/schema.base.generated.ts
+++ b/src/config/schema.base.generated.ts
@@ -18977,7 +18977,7 @@ export const GENERATED_BASE_CONFIG_SCHEMA: BaseConfigSchemaResponse = {
                 ],
                 title: "Queue Mode",
                 description:
-                  'Queue behavior mode. "steer" injects all queued steering messages at the next model boundary; "queue" is legacy one-at-a-time steering; "followup" runs later; "collect" batches later; "steer-backlog" does both; "interrupt" aborts the active run.',
+                  'Queue behavior mode. Use "steer" to inject all queued steering messages at the next model boundary; "queue" is legacy one-at-a-time steering; "followup" runs later; "collect" batches later; "steer-backlog" (alias "steer+backlog") does both; "interrupt" aborts the active run.',
               },
               byChannel: {
                 type: "object",
@@ -28307,7 +28307,7 @@ export const GENERATED_BASE_CONFIG_SCHEMA: BaseConfigSchemaResponse = {
     },
     "messages.queue.mode": {
       label: "Queue Mode",
-      help: 'Queue behavior mode. "steer" injects all queued steering messages at the next model boundary; "queue" is legacy one-at-a-time steering; "followup" runs later; "collect" batches later; "steer-backlog" does both; "interrupt" aborts the active run.',
+      help: 'Queue behavior mode. Use "steer" to inject all queued steering messages at the next model boundary; "queue" is legacy one-at-a-time steering; "followup" runs later; "collect" batches later; "steer-backlog" (alias "steer+backlog") does both; "interrupt" aborts the active run.',
       tags: ["advanced"],
     },
     "messages.queue.byChannel": {
diff --git a/src/config/schema.help.ts b/src/config/schema.help.ts
index f823b4fe4e8..1b60dfb0b04 100644
--- a/src/config/schema.help.ts
+++ b/src/config/schema.help.ts
@@ -1637,7 +1637,7 @@ export const FIELD_HELP: Record<string, string> = {
   "messages.queue":
     "Inbound message queue strategy for messages that arrive while a session run is active. Default mode is steer, with followup fallback when steering is unavailable.",
   "messages.queue.mode":
-    'Queue behavior mode. "steer" injects all queued steering messages at the next model boundary; "queue" is legacy one-at-a-time steering; "followup" runs later; "collect" batches later; "steer-backlog" does both; "interrupt" aborts the active run.',
+    'Queue behavior mode. Use "steer" to inject all queued steering messages at the next model boundary; "queue" is legacy one-at-a-time steering; "followup" runs later; "collect" batches later; "steer-backlog" (alias "steer+backlog") does both; "interrupt" aborts the active run.',
   "messages.queue.byChannel":
     "Per-channel queue mode overrides keyed by provider id (for example telegram, discord, slack). Use this when one channel’s traffic pattern needs different queue behavior than global defaults.",
   "messages.queue.debounceMs":