diff --git a/backend/druks/durable/schemas.py b/backend/druks/durable/schemas.py
index d74f19ce..401c09ec 100644
--- a/backend/druks/durable/schemas.py
+++ b/backend/druks/durable/schemas.py
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ class RunResponse(Schema):
     # The durable kind ("software_factory.build"); ``label`` is its display name ("Build").
     kind: str
     label: str
-    state: Literal["scheduled", "running", "parked", "finished", "failed", "cancelled"]
+    state: RunState
     failure: str | None = None
     gate: str | None = None
     # The structured ask the parked run declared at ``Gate.wait(input_request=…)`` —
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ def from_run(
             id=run.id,
             kind=run.kind,
             label=get_display_label(run.kind),
-            state=run.state,  # type: ignore[arg-type]
+            state=RunState(run.state),
             failure=run.failure_message(),
             gate=run.input_gate,
             input_request=input_request,
diff --git a/backend/tests/test_durable_schemas.py b/backend/tests/test_durable_schemas.py
index 8ffa7ad5..c942e325 100644
--- a/backend/tests/test_durable_schemas.py
+++ b/backend/tests/test_durable_schemas.py
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 from druks.durable.exceptions import GateTimeout
 from druks.durable.models import AgentCall, Run
 from druks.durable.reads import _status
+from druks.durable.schemas import RunResponse
+from druks.models import Base
 from druks_field_notes.workflows import Summarize
 
 
@@ -136,3 +138,10 @@ async def test_status_falls_back_to_the_terminal_call_error_when_failure_is_null
         )
     ]
     assert (await _status_of(runs)).failure == "crashed in implement"
+
+
+def test_a_run_response_carries_an_orphaned_run():
+    # Every state a run derives projects onto a run response, orphaned included.
+    run = _run("gone", Summarize.kind, RunState.ORPHANED)
+    run.created_at = run.updated_at = Base.utc_now()
+    assert RunResponse.from_run(run, input_request=None).state == RunState.ORPHANED