diff --git a/crates/gpu-gates/src/bin/gate_qwen3_serve.rs b/crates/gpu-gates/src/bin/gate_qwen3_serve.rs
index 75541df9c..1cc25822e 100644
--- a/crates/gpu-gates/src/bin/gate_qwen3_serve.rs
+++ b/crates/gpu-gates/src/bin/gate_qwen3_serve.rs
@@ -129,7 +129,14 @@
 //!   out holds the second slot's fixed stores past the plan's count — the
 //!   open refuses by name and the placed qwen35moe server never listens
 //!   (`placed_slots_load_names_the_split` red); one counted for every slot
-//!   names twice the planes and the clause is red. `slots_count_their_checkpoints`
+//!   names twice the planes and the clause is red.
+//!   `placed_props_engine_placement_is_the_plans`: the placed arm's `/props`
+//!   `engine.placement` is its plan's — the card, then the host, routed experts
+//!   on the host exactly when the plan record's `host_experts` is not 0;
+//!   `props_engine_whole_load_names_no_placement`:
+//!   the whole-card arm opens with no plan, so it reports none and its line
+//!   says why. FAIL-first: a seat that reports no placement is red on the
+//!   placed arm. `slots_count_their_checkpoints`
 //!   reads both servers' stderr: a qwen35moe file's two sequences each pin
 //!   up to the body's budget at the slot's context of checkpoints on the host, and
 //!   the seat's `checkpoints:` line names two sequences and twice the budget
@@ -1872,6 +1879,41 @@ mod gate {
             &named("props_names_the_slot_ctx"),
             total.is_some_and(|t| n_ctx == t / 2),
         );
+        // `/props`' placement is the plan's when the load placed one (its plan record printed): the
+        // card, then the host, and routed experts on the host exactly when the record puts them
+        // there. A whole-card load has no plan: no placement, and the seat's line says why.
+        let placement = &props["engine"]["placement"];
+        match plan.as_ref().and_then(Option::as_ref) {
+            Some(rec) => {
+                let devices = placement["devices"].as_array().cloned().unwrap_or_default();
+                let host_experts = devices
+                    .get(1)
+                    .and_then(|d| d["classes"]["experts"].as_u64())
+                    .unwrap_or(0);
+                println!("{}: props placement {placement}", arm.dir);
+                check(
+                    ok,
+                    &named("props_engine_placement_is_the_plans"),
+                    devices.len() == 2
+                        && devices[0]["device"]
+                            .as_str()
+                            .and_then(|d| d.strip_prefix("GPU"))
+                            .is_some_and(|n| n.parse::<u32>().is_ok())
+                        && devices[1]["device"] == "CPU"
+                        && devices[0]["bytes"].as_u64().is_some_and(|b| b > 0)
+                        && u64_of(Some(rec), "host_experts")
+                            .is_some_and(|h| (h > 0) == (host_experts > 0)),
+                );
+            }
+            None => check(
+                ok,
+                &named("props_engine_whole_load_names_no_placement"),
+                placement.is_null()
+                    && log.contains(
+                        "/props leaves the placement out: a whole-card load opens with no plan",
+                    ),
+            ),
+        }
         // The whole arm's set total is its whole-fit verdict's, held by the
         // two slots' planes; the placed arm's is the plan's.
         if let (Total::Set, Some(t)) = (arm.total, total) {
diff --git a/crates/gpu-gates/src/bin/shared/serve_seats/qwen3.rs b/crates/gpu-gates/src/bin/shared/serve_seats/qwen3.rs
index e8544f0c2..8a80c8709 100644
--- a/crates/gpu-gates/src/bin/shared/serve_seats/qwen3.rs
+++ b/crates/gpu-gates/src/bin/shared/serve_seats/qwen3.rs
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ use bloomery_gpu::model::{GpuModel, MAX_PASS_ROWS, Slots, StepMode};
 use bloomery_gpu::{Gpu, Qwen3moeModel};
 use bloomery_gpu_gates::bind::{
     ChatSurface, Listen, Pass, Seat, SeatEngine, SlotStep, Vocab, arm_screen, bind_server,
-    note_line, parallel_line, slots_given,
+    note_line, parallel_line, placement_of, slots_given,
 };
 use bloomery_gpu_gates::generate::Place;
 use bloomery_gpu_gates::record::{self, Record};
@@ -1443,6 +1443,24 @@ pub fn run(args: &[String]) -> Result<ServeError, GateError> {
         load.print_plan(&levers, vision.as_ref())?;
         std::process::exit(0);
     }
+    // `/props`' placement: a placed load's plan, the one its open makes from the same plan and
+    // levers; a whole-card load opens with no plan, so it reports none and says so.
+    let placement = match &load {
+        Q3Load::Placed { q, total, .. } => {
+            let plan = q.plan(*total, &plan_levers)?;
+            placement_of(NAME, plan.machine, &plan)
+        }
+        Q3Load::Whole(_) => {
+            eprintln!(
+                "{NAME}: /props leaves the placement out: a whole-card load opens with no plan"
+            );
+            None
+        }
+    };
+    let props = EngineProps {
+        placement,
+        ..EngineProps::default()
+    };
     drop(split);
     let open = path.clone();
     let device = match &load {
@@ -1456,7 +1474,7 @@ pub fn run(args: &[String]) -> Result<ServeError, GateError> {
             slot_ctx,
             vocab,
             device,
-            EngineProps::default(),
+            props,
             0,
         )?,
         _ => SeatEngine::spawn(
@@ -1464,7 +1482,7 @@ pub fn run(args: &[String]) -> Result<ServeError, GateError> {
             slot_ctx,
             vocab,
             device,
-            EngineProps::default(),
+            props,
             0,
         )?,
     };